This One's For the Children

that turned into hot girls that are coming to see our reunion show!!! NKOTB

At my best friend Denise's request I am writing about New Kids on the Block. If you haven't heard from me yet about this I will tell you now - yes I am super excited to see them again! How excited you ask? $175 for a ticket in the first 20 rows excited. Yup you heard me... $175 and there are 8 of us going together. Say what you will - but if you were in the Boston area when those 5 guys hit the scene back in the day - you were a FAN!!! Maybe it was the accessibility that helped fuel the fire - knowing that maybe you'd be in Faneuil Hall & run into Jordan was enough to make any girl smile in her sleep. And it took a real strong man back then to admit that he was a fan - I remember Brian S. getting a boatload of crap for listening to them on his walkman on our DC trip in 7th grade. I say - good for him!

I am excited to see what the demographic is going to be. I mean those girls that were my age then are now rapidly approaching 50 (I was 12 when hanging tough came out), do they drag their kids there as a buffer? Most of the girls that are going with us are in that 30 range and that's what I imagine a majority of the audience will be. But let's face it - we can now drink! That's where I get nervous. Denise & I have had conversations about this already, how neither of us want to get belligerent at the concert cause it's an expensive ticket to spend the entire time in the bathroom.

I remember when I saw them when I was 12. My Dad & stepmother, Lois, took me to see them at Great Woods and we sat at the front part of the lawn (a great spot in my opinion). Well I sat next to this girl that was hysterically crying for about 90% of the show and those that weren't crying like her were screaming so loud that I could barely hear them. I looked at Lois & said "what is wrong with these girls, do they have mental problems?" Well after bringing up that story to one of my friends I found out that I might be the one that was mental for not crying. In fact she even said that she might do that again. Thank God we aren't seeing them around Christmas cause if she heard "I Still Believe in Santa Claus" live... I would probably get my arm torn off in her excitement & lose hearing in both ears from her screams. (You know who you are & I love you dearly for that.) And you know we'd all lose our voices singing along to "Funky, Funky Christmas", hell we almost did Friday night at TJ's when we busted it out...

So about once a month I will post about the anticipation of the concert as it approaches (it's 4 months and 12 days away). 'Til then I will be "hangin' tough"