Hundred Percent

So it’s a Tuesday night and Im bored out of my mind. I’m one of those people that if I have nothing to do, I start going crazy. Believe it or not I got a lot of my work done early on in the day.

I get a call from Drea telling me that it’s opening day for the GREASE. If you don’t know that movie I’m sure your parents do because it was a hit back then. It starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. The call goes something like this:

Me: I’m bored as hell

Drea: Me too! Hey did you know its opening night for Grease?

Me: Oh ok and….

Drea: We should check it out and see the turn out

Me: Do you have tickets?

Drea: No, but who knows maybe we can learn a few things and maybe we will run into Taylor Hicks.

I pause to think about my options…My options:

• I stay home and be bored out of my mind
• I can go to the Civic Theatre to hopefully gain more knowledge about Theatre world and maybe see Taylor Hicks.

You know which one I picked? Option 2. It was part homework and part boredom.

I tell Drea that I’m going to scoop her up at 8:30 so we can get there right as the show ends. I’ve never been to the Civic Theatre before so I ask her to get directions online..hint foreshadowing. As were on the road, we start talking about why the hell are we going again if we don’t have tickets? To see Taylor Hicks? Now if I was a big American Idol fan and maybe 2 years ago(i dont know), then maybe just maybe I’d want to go see Taylor Hicks. To be quite honest, I’m not of a fan of his music but I respect his abilities.

So we get into downtown and I’m asking Drea for the directions. They are wrong and we are lost. She blames mapquest but I should have know better! But good thing I don’t give up so easily. I wanted to be there when the musical got out so I can see the turnout. I start driving around to see if anything looks familiar to Drea and by luck we find the Civic Theatre.

Me: Damn dude we just made it no thanks to your great directions. Worst navigator ever!

Drea: Looks at me then SLAPs me on the arm…

Normally it wouldn’t bother me, but the night was chilly and that slap hurt like a mofo! We start walking up to the Theatre and see a Rolls Royce Phantom with either 22′s or 24′s! By the way according to Joel ” You can’t lose on 22′s!”

The driver is outside waiting.

Me: Who are you waiting for? Taylor Hicks?

Driver: Nah just some old ass rich people

Me and driver: laughing

I’m telling Drea that since we made it on time, lets have a mission. She looks at me strange because she knows what I’m alluding to: I want to meet Taylor Hicks!

Drea: HOW THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT? WE DON’T EVEN HAVE TICKETS?

Me: I don’t know! Lets figure it out. oh and stop yelling…hahah

We start talking and the show is getting out! There were a lot of people there. We pass by the Rolls Royce again and see the driver helping his employer into the car. He chuckles as we pass by and wave goodnight.  There is a crowd gathering around the exit doors. I start inquiring “why the hell is everyone just standing here?” One of the ladies kinda reponds ” were waiting for the actors to come out so we can meet them” BINGO!! I look at Drea and she just giggles.

A few minutes pass by and the actors come pouring out! I think mostly everyone was waiting for Taylor! F!!! There were a lot of people.

Drea: That’s a lot of people. How are we going to meet this dude?

Me: Were small and short. We will bum rush them.

Drea looked at me like I was out of my mind. Ahaha too bad because I am! Right as I’m chuckling Taylor Hicks walks out! F! Got caught slippin. Being that Drea and I are the only minorities present, this gave us an advantage because the others had no idea about “sliding on in.” Normally if there were other minorities that move wouldn’t fly cuz they might call us out, but luckilly there wasn’t!

We got Mr. Hicks to sign the Playbill. We basically cut off the line because we were too small that they hardly noticed…hahah

Well this concludes Jerry’s Amsterdam’s adventures! Just goes to show you. “To think is to create” Till the next adventure……..