Last week, one of my very spontaneous friends called me on my lunch break and told me about a free concert that was playing that night at an outdoor venue in Salt Lake City. The band (Anberlin) was one of the groups that I listened to like crazy in high school and I, of course, said hell yes! Let's go! Time to revel in my high school memories!
Dilemma #1: I don't get off work until 5 and the concert started at 7. All I had to wear was my scrubs and Dansko clogs. Not quite the ideal outfit to jump around in at a rock concert.
Dilemma #2: We wanted to have an adult beverage before the concert and, therefore, we needed to find alternate means of travel to the concert.
Problems... that needed to be solved...
Solution #1: I ran to the mall after work (since I didn't have time to go home and change) and purchased some cheap jeans and some boots.
We didn't end up meeting until around 7 to go to the concert. We figured the band would have an opener and then they would play for a couple of hours. Plenty of time, right? As I was changing clothes, I noticed that the security sensor was still on my jeans. NO! We were already running late! We decided that we would run by the mall on our way to the concert and have them take off the sensor.
Success. The sensor-removal mission took all of three minutes.
Solution #2: My friend suggested we go to his work, have a drink, and get one of his buddies to drive us to the concert. After all, it was right around the corner! So we went and had a drink but couldn't find anyone to take us. Boo. We hopped on Trax instead.
We finally made it to the venue, hopped off the train, and ran over to the concert. We jumped on a little platform and could see the stage perfectly! We felt so lucky!! Then the people on stage stopped playing. We figured that they were the openers and that Anberlin was about to get on stage and ROCK OUR WORLD! We asked the girls in front of us who had just played. They said , "Oh! That was Anberlin! They just played their last song!"... It was 8:12.
They played for an HOUR. I guess now we know why the concert was free.
