So, my husband and I had awesome floor seats for the Carrie Underwood concert a few weeks ago. Different couples were there together, moms and daughters were there, friends, families and a host of others. Now, I had purchased these tickets back in June so, these seats were REALLY good. We were looking forward to a nice evening out.
We started out with dinner at one of our favorite sushi places, then headed out to the concert. When we arrived, the concert employees were happy and extremely nice. We made it down to our floor seats, 10 rows from the stage. Two different acts opened up for Carrie. By the time the "Carrie" portion of the show started, it was 9:00 (I'm usually brushing my teeth and in my p.j.'s by this time). However, it was totally worth my staying up past my bedtime. When she sang "Temporary Home" it was so beautiful, chills went all over my arms. I thought that was going to be the highlight of the show for me, but little did I know that when she sang "Jesus Take the Wheel", that she would be going right into the chorus of "How Great Thou Art". I had tears of joy because I wasn't at a Christian concert, but I certainly felt the presence of God right there in the middle of that concert.
I know I live a sheltered life, but I couldn't help noticing all of the people who were sooooo drunk from the beer that they were consuming from the moment they got there until the end of the concert. Drunk women were dancing in the middle of the aisles, and the man next to me almost spilled his beer on me as he was crawling over me to get to his seat. He then began to sing EVERY Carrie Underwood song at the top of his drunk lungs. I paid a lot of money for these tickets and I really wanted to hear just Carrie, and not the drunk man doing a duet. But the speakers were so loud that I could hear Carrie just fine.
The thing that makes me most annoyed is not really the fact that people were drinking, but that these drunk people were about to be on the same roads as me and my family. Perhaps many of them had designated drivers; I hope so. But I fear that most of them did not, as I watched many of them in the same parking area as me, get in the car and start the engine and take off to get on the freeways to go home.
Alcohol is a psychoactive drug that alters the part of the brain used for reasoning and good judgement. That's why most people drink; to feel the effect of the drug. So, doesn't it stand to reason that the same brain that is allowing you to dance in the aisles because you don't care what people think...is the same brain that leads you behind the wheel to cross lines, and go down one way streets and potentially lose your bearings and crash into innocent people?
That's why drunk people annoy me. The end.
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