Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
I have not heard of concert goers getting shot. If anyone gets hurt in that area it is often on Georgia Avenue and not to concert goers.
Once you have gone to shows pandoras box has been opened. It would be a punishment to have that privelege removed.
Try and get your parents to take you and pick you up from the show.
see, that's what i've said. my dad is convinced though, that i'll get shot while walking in or out of the club. i truly have some jewish parents on my case here.
my parents are very inconsistant with their reasoning on what i can and can't do. i went to my first "rock concert" when i was about ten years old. and since then, we'd always had to have a "parent or responsible adult"--at least at club shows (wolf trap and fort reno and whatever we're fine alone) with us at shows (many a time in the past as well, i have even paid for my brothers ticket to shows he had no interest or motivation in going to--just so a friend and i could go see the band). what happened though, is we all start turning 15...we can almost drive ourselves...and the parents that are staying with us at the shows (NOT MINE, EITHER!) don't want to take us anymore, and have realized that we're safe on our own. so we started getting dropped and picked up around may-ish.
all summer long, a debate was raging in this household about whether this was OK or not...my mom thought we were fine, a group of us, getting dropped and picked up at the club; whereas my dad who is often very stubborn about things, just said flat out no. i told him that if he disagrees so much, he needs to just come to a show with me and see for himself that there is no fuss. he gave me a "we'll see."
so basically, in september when i wanted to go to a show at 9:30 my mom and i just kind of overruled my dad and i went with a friend anyway. we got dropped and picked up, and were fine. and i'd been good to go until about LAST WEEK, when my mom started talking about hearing all this stuff about people getting shot in the neighborhood. and then today, she basically told me that she didn't want me at The Black Cat or 9:30 ever again. i'm not sure how much truth that will hold, we'll have to see.
it just sucks, because i'm such a good kid. i'm straightedge for the most part, i am in all honors classes at school AND am even taking a college-level government class right now and i've got straight A's. my high school is one of the best and most-competitive in the whole state, and i also do a ton of extracurriculers, sing and guitar in various bands, and am working on a collection for a fashion show at the end of this year. i hate Bethesda; but it just sucks
so much when the only thing i want to do is go stand in a room full of people and see some music, and it's not allowed. i mean, i feel like i could be out prostituting myself for crack and failing out of school and getting twelve abortions and i STILL wouldn't be able to do this. curses, i tell you!
