Cheetah Girls

Today, I have the distinct honor of taking my 8 year old daughter and her 8 year old friend to see the Cheetah Girls in Little Rock. It'll be a 3.5 hour drive down there, a 2+ hour show and then the 3.5 hour drive home. We leave here around 11:30am and I don't expect us home until at least 9:30p. I also don't expect to come back with the same amount of hearing capacity I had when I leave today.

For those of you who've never been to a teeny-bopper concert filled with 10,000 8-14 year old girls, consider this.

Reports of canine howls and auditory distress go up considerably due to the intense and amplified shrieks and squeals of delight and rapture. We took Kaitlyn to see Hilary Duff a couple years ago in Nashville and I've NEVER been to such a loud show.

Yes, in all my years of being in radio and seeing everyone from Aerosmith to Van Halen to actually being on stage with Sammy Hagar in front of 18,000 screaming fans in St. Louis, none of those shows even came close to the amount of decibel damage I suffered at the Hilary Duff show. Imagine your 8 year old squealing in delight in that manner that immediately finds your last nerve.

Multiply that by 10,000.

That was 2 years ago when Kaitlyn was only 6. Now she's 8 and has more developed lungs, more than capable of delivering some major screams. Not to mention, Hilary Duff was only one. The Cheetah Girls are 3-4, more than able to elicit even more hysteria from all the girls in the crowd.

I wonder how many other dads are being "encouraged" to do this today. LOL

I'm sensing a disturbance in the Force. Something says my nerves, my hearing and my naturally beautiful brown hair will become vapors of a memory later tonight. I predict a broken, nervous and shaken man with aged skin, pale complexion and thinning gray hair and a daughter hyped up on sugar, a long car ride, sluggish from her evening nap and a possible tummy ache.

Aren't you wishing you were me right about now??

I won't even mention I won't get to see the Hogs play in the SEC Championship tonight. Thankfully, I do have all the stations in central Arkansas who'll have the game on the radio so that'll be some comfort.

Still...I kind of enjoy the current level of hearing, reasoning and stress level I have at the present. I hope the faculties I lose today will be restored by Monday.

Pray for me today.....

PLEASE.