Yesterday, I went into my second job to score some free food. I am off my diet while I am fighting an infection and thought that there was no better way to be off your diet than to be on fast food. One of my coworkers noted that I looked pissed off, and I did. I was furious. My sister/roommate has not paid me for her half of the groceries or the internet bill, I am okay with that because life happens and you do not always have the money. It is part of being in a family to help each other out. However, she had spent the entire night complaining about not having money for the train to go to a Social Distortion concert, for which she already had bought the tickets. She could have saved money on seeing Social Distortion – she has seen them many times before – and paid me back so I could have afforded my much-wanted extra: tickets to see Weezer and Foo Fighters together in concert. I have never seen either band in concert; I always miss my shot. It really bothered me that I had essentially bought someone else’s concert ticket and would be sitting my concert out, again.
I knew it was bothering me but I thought it was in the same vein as other roommate annoyances along the lines of lost remote controls, overnight dirty dishes or being left a dribble of Kool-Aid. I walked to the supermarket (she borrowed my car to go, left hers without gas and I am not paying for her tickets and gas) and fumed about it some more on the phone to a friend but realized that I was truly, madly, deeply offended when “Buddy Holly” was playing on the radio at the supermarket.
I got home and there was an email from Jeremy, which said that I should go because I owed it to myself to do something fun and that I should do it for him since he always has to work when there are good concerts in town.
I usually disagree with that statement and it bothers me when people say they need to do something for themselves. Most people who say that only do things for themselves and I really do try to add some altruism and generosity into my world. Also, it is hard to justify concert tickets when you have tuition payments due and there are natural disaster victims galore that need your help.
I will just make the generalization that those people do not enjoy Weezer, and enjoy Weezer FOR them and instead of them. I will go, not just for me, but also for Jeremy, and all the other fans that have to work and cannot make the show. I will go for Nathan who could not get tickets. I will go for Peter who is out of the country – a fact I am sorely bitter about because Peter would have bought my ticket for me – and cannot go. I will go for all of these people, all of them. I will take one for the team. Jeremy is always there for me. Nathan is always there to tell me I am a bad person. Peter is basically a jerk with much coin that buys my friendship because I am shallow and materialistic. I will do it for them, for all of them. I might even get them a t-shirt, but (if I get the day off…) I am going.
Also, I guess my sister/roommate/oppressor/nemesis/closet Bush supporter does work hard and deserve a night out, but so do I.
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