U2ITNOL
Acrobat
11 hours since the Phoenix show and I'm still elevated! Couldn't get to sleep til 2am. Then had my alarm set to 7:00am this morning so I could get ready to drive over to Best Buy for the free U2 live cd sampler they're giving away. A Best Buy employee was right there giving them away as soon as you walked in. Well first he asks, "Would you like a free U2 cd?". I've got my Elevation tour t-shirt and baseballcap on, and he still asks me this! DUH!!
Now to the real reason for my posting.. Yesterday was indeed a beautiful day. Phoenix was my last Elevation show. :-( 13 shows total since April. For my last Elevation, it couldn't have been any better! An amazing concert! And in my hometown, too. The only blemish on an otherwise perfect day occurred earlier in the day. I had a GA ticket and showed up at America West Arena around 5am. I parked my Jeep in an open-air pay lot across the street from the arena, right by where the GA people were lined up. Most of the early GA'ers were parked in the same lot. My Jeep has an Arizona personalized license plate which says "U2 POP". I've had that plate since '97 when that album first came out. At 10am I decided I'd move my Jeep to another parking lot since the one I was parked in was going to be charging $12 later in the day. So I drove it to a $5 parking garage a couple blocks away. As I'm walking behind my Jeep leaving the garage, I notice my U2 plate is gone!! They took the license plate and my Diamondbacks 2001 World Series Champions plate holder I had just bought a three days ago. grrrrrrr!!! They even took the license plate screws! I couldn't believe it!!! I called the police when I got back to the arena. They filed a police report and gave me the report number to give to the cops in case I get pulled over this weekend.
Who would do such a thing?? Stealing someone's U2 license plate off their car. How pathetic!! And stupid. Someone told me stealing someone's license plate is a federal offense. I'll have the plate replaced of course, so at the most it's only going to be an incovenience having to drive around this weekend with a good chance of being pulled over multiple times. And then having to take some time off from work Monday to go wait in line at the MVD. What really pissed me off and disappoints me is that it very likely a U2 fan who stole my plate. Well, obviously not a real U2 fan. A REAL U2 fan would not do such a thing to a fellow U2 fan, or anyone else for that matter. I hope the scumbag who stole my plate is feeling guilt and shame this morning. They'll have to live with this on their conscience, if they have one.
Now to the real reason for my posting.. Yesterday was indeed a beautiful day. Phoenix was my last Elevation show. :-( 13 shows total since April. For my last Elevation, it couldn't have been any better! An amazing concert! And in my hometown, too. The only blemish on an otherwise perfect day occurred earlier in the day. I had a GA ticket and showed up at America West Arena around 5am. I parked my Jeep in an open-air pay lot across the street from the arena, right by where the GA people were lined up. Most of the early GA'ers were parked in the same lot. My Jeep has an Arizona personalized license plate which says "U2 POP". I've had that plate since '97 when that album first came out. At 10am I decided I'd move my Jeep to another parking lot since the one I was parked in was going to be charging $12 later in the day. So I drove it to a $5 parking garage a couple blocks away. As I'm walking behind my Jeep leaving the garage, I notice my U2 plate is gone!! They took the license plate and my Diamondbacks 2001 World Series Champions plate holder I had just bought a three days ago. grrrrrrr!!! They even took the license plate screws! I couldn't believe it!!! I called the police when I got back to the arena. They filed a police report and gave me the report number to give to the cops in case I get pulled over this weekend.
Who would do such a thing?? Stealing someone's U2 license plate off their car. How pathetic!! And stupid. Someone told me stealing someone's license plate is a federal offense. I'll have the plate replaced of course, so at the most it's only going to be an incovenience having to drive around this weekend with a good chance of being pulled over multiple times. And then having to take some time off from work Monday to go wait in line at the MVD. What really pissed me off and disappoints me is that it very likely a U2 fan who stole my plate. Well, obviously not a real U2 fan. A REAL U2 fan would not do such a thing to a fellow U2 fan, or anyone else for that matter. I hope the scumbag who stole my plate is feeling guilt and shame this morning. They'll have to live with this on their conscience, if they have one.
