F.O.M.O Keeps Us Going Back For More

Today is the JHB leg of the Rihanna Diamonds Concert Tour in South Africa. As loud and extroverted as I am I won't deny that I hate crowds. I can't really do shopping centres for longer than 15 minutes and the last 4 concerts I've been to have ended in sore feet and a grumpy me.

Our Linken Park, Golden Circle tickets concert was the highlight of my dismay. In front of us 2 drunk young men boys jokingly wrestle each other, occasionally knocking my chest, ribs, head as they snort and grunt in amusement. At this stage my back is against the fencing that separates us from the General Standing ticket holders so either we move (again!) or grin and bear it. To my right a young girl sits at my feet, her head slung between her legs as she empties her beer belly on the floor, splashing regurgetated alcohol onto my boots. Perfect, just what I paid for. 

Perhaps I've grown up, perhaps I just prefer my cozy bed, but the aggravation involved with going to concerts for the Fear Of Missing Out just isn't worth it anymore not matter how big the star. So Craig and I promised ourselves that we would actually just buy the DVD of the concert instead but nothing really beats saying you were there (with 75 000 other groupies and F.O.M.O-goers) now does it.

So here we are, it's Sunday morning, I'm tired and a little run down from a stressful week. I worked this weekend, I'm at work now as I blog this post. My sister and her fiancee are probably disembarking off the local flight they took to get here. We usually take the busses to the concerts which are very well run, but this time (as we spit in the face of caution) we are taking, wait for it - our own vehicle. 

I've just heard that the concert is going to carry on till 2am. With our general access parking ticket we'll be lucky to be out of there by 4am. Did I mention I was not a night owl? Wish us luck and hopefully we'll learn our lesson. 

Ooh! I just heard Bryan Adams is visiting us again in 2014, may we should go? Can't miss out, won't miss out. Dammit!


Ps: Photos to follow