Let’s see who among you have been paying attention: Who is my favorite band?
Happy Mother’s Day to me! Metallica stage at MetLife Stadium 05/14/17
!! METALLICA !!
And who is in the tri-state area this week? Yup, Metallica! Being the hard rocking mama I am, of course I saw them this weekend as the played Mother’s Day; VIP section naturally. Oh, how I love those guys! So worth the temporary tinnitus!
At some point in the concert James (Hetfield co-founder, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the band — for those who don’t know), asks the audience who wants to here some old school Metallica from the early 80’s. A friend seated next to me promptly announced that she had not been born yet.
A woman sitting on the other side of my friend appalled by her relative youth visibly cringed “God I feel old.”
I laughed, rolled my eyes at my friend and told her to shush, reminding her that she was younger than my children. Granted, it is only by a couple of years, but technically years younger.
“You can’t be that old stop it. I know, because I’m pretty up there.” She shrugged clearly thinking herself the matron among the three of us.
I took a good look at her, figuring she was in her very late 30s and grinned “I guarantee you, I am older than you.”
Numbers were shared and as I figured, not only was I older than she, but by nearly a decade (I am a month younger than James Hetfield – for comparison). She was gobsmacked to say the least.
I grinned whipping my purple curls around as the opening notes of “Whiplash” sounded.
“Hey, this just means we have plenty of years left to rock out and we’ll look damn good doing it!”
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Writing Our Lives #52essays2017 Challenge – Week 20
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It’s Slice of Life Tuesday – let’s see how other’s are cutting it up:
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