A Descriptive Memories Of My First Concert Experience

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I have few concrete memories of my first concert experience and although many of the details elude me, it still left a deep, lasting impression on me all these years later. It wasn’t that it was a good or bad concert, per se, it was the situation and circumstances that are fuzzy. A little background on me. I graduated high school in 1986 along with 83 classmates. This is notable as I was not only from a small town, I was also quite shy and introverted and I hadn’t been exposed to much as far as partying and drugs were concerned. Sure, there were the weekend bonfires where beer kegs were the norm, but I didn’t often get invited to participate. I was still just a young 17-year-old girl when, a few weeks after graduation, I moved to the “big city” of Grand Rapids to live with my aunt and uncle. I wanted to experience life, …show more content…

So, during the time it took for the band to take the stage and maybe 3 or four songs in, I started to feel dizzy and became nauseous. Thankfully, the boy who invited me, took notice and escorted me to the ladies’ room. While sitting in a stall, the walls began to close in on me and all I could see were black spots in a long tunnel. I’m not sure how long I was in there but he must have asked one of the ladies to check on me and she helped me splash some water on my face and somewhat snap out of my decline. Returning to the floor section, the boys and I moved to a less smoke-filled area to watch the rest of the concert. While I felt a bit more myself at this point, I was still feeling the residual effects of the contact buzz but managed to stay on my feet throughout the rest of the night. The ride home was, thankfully, uneventful. The boys let me sit by a window to suck in fresh air. I was slightly mortified; they were slightly

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