So, sometimes I have these weird “good luck runs” where I win stuff. Never anything big, unfortunately, but whatever…last night, I won tickets to see Sevendust – of course I told my 14 year old I would take her with me. she loves them as much as I do (well, ok, we just like them, but whatever). I found out today that it is an 18 and over show :smack: my husband doesn’t like them, but he will offer to go with me, I know. I have a coworker who likes them, but I don’t think she would be able to find a babysitter. We (hubby and I) have a mutual friend that I think likes them, but I might feel awkward asking him to go with me…ya know, don’t wanna give the wrong impression…so whom do I take?
See if your friend can get a sitter or not – otherwise ask the person you know likes them (whoever “they” are), explaining the circumstances so he doesn’t think you’re hitting on him.
See if your daughter will babysit for your friend, or even your hubby. Voila, problem solved!
Great suggestion, already thought about it – but the coworker’s kids are…odd, she says she can’t usually find someone to watch them. We will see…
What wrong impression would the mutual friend get? You don’t mean romantic, do you? If he’d enjoy it more than your husband, then why not leave hubby at home to watch TV? I don’t know the guy, but I couldn’t imagine any normal person reading more into it than this, given that he’s friends with your husband too.
Worth asking your co-worker, though, if she’s your 1st choice. Even if she can’t go I’m sure she’d appreciate the offer.
The coworker is my first choice really. But there’s more than sitter issues with her (read: her husband needs a swift kick in the ass), so I honestly don’t think it is feasible, though I did offer and should know soon if she can.
The mutual friend is just that. We both consider him a friend, so I know my husband would understand that I just want to go to a concert with someone who actually likes the music and won’t be trying to talk to me during the show. My only concern is that he and I have only really been friends for a few months and I don’t want him to think that this is an “opportunity.” I don’t think that would be an issue, since he knows that I have a great relationship with my husband. I think I will wait and see what the coworker finds out before I mention it to the mutual friend.
I think I am just being paranoid about men’s thought processes lately, since I recently was hit on by another friend of my husband’s whom I would never have guessed had any interest in me.
I dunno. Not only does she get the disappointment of not getting to go to the concert you told her you’d take her to, she has to babysit to enable you to go? It depends on how your daughter feels about the whole thing, but if it’d be a compound bummer for her, I wouldn’t even ask.
Ick. Even if you caught his eye, there’s still a thing called boundaries. I hope the rest of your husbands friends aren’t like that, but even if a few others are and you just don’t know it yet, well, inviting them to a show doesn’t give them license to hit on you, KWIM? I guess what I’m trying to say is that you’re not the one who needs behaviour modification here. That being said, if you don’t feel comfortable with someone one-on-one, then no reason to force it.
Anyhow, enough of my unsolicited thoughts. Enjoy the show!
I have no good advice, but this:
really sucks. Like, bad. If I were her, I think it’d be really nice if my mom did something nice for me to de-bummer it a little.
I have no real advice either, except you could scalp the ticket…but that’s not a good plan, since it’s not legal in many places. (Is it legal in any place? am I completely wrong?)…
I just popped in to say I am very jealous. I would go, darnit. 
Brendon
Since I actually am on the guest list (“Litoris plus one”) there is no actual ticket to scalp or I might consider it. No biggee. I did mention it to the mutual friend who is very excited as he likes the band a lot. I told him it is dependant upon my coworker being able to (or not) go. He took it as offered (YAY!) and didn’t give any indication that he thought there was anything more to it than a friendly gesture.
As for doing something nice for my daughter, of course that is a given. I am kind of bummed that she can’t go (I actually like hanging out with her – took her to see the RHCP last month). I am thinking I may get us tickets to see Gym Class Heroes who will be here next month. She loves them, and I like them ok. I know that is an all-ages show.
The only thing that sucks is that Bonnoroo is coming up and is actually going to have a decent line-up (by decent, I mean Tool is going to be there – I haven’t seen Tool since…uhmmm…Undertow came out!) but we wouldn’t be able to get 4 days off work to go since we will both be taking our week of vacation for the DisneyWorld trip in March. 
Seconded.
Glad to hear it worked out good so far…Your daughter is lucky. RHCP are great live. I saw Gym Class Heroes with Academy Is and Fallout Boy last year. They were great as well. I think Academy Is was slightly better, but GCH almost (or did, Mrs. Small disagrees) put on a better show than Fallout Boy.
Bonnaroo is the shit. End of story. If you could’ve taken your daughter/hubby to that, I would ask that you adopt me. (I promise, I don’t eat much and keep a clean house!) I didn’t realize there was such a good lineup at Bonnaroo this year. Disney will be fun though.
Brendon