Whole family knows about my U2 obssession...
When Bono or U2 is on tv this is what happens at the house:
Mom: "Melissa put it on 30 there's U2"
Sister: comes downstairs "On 30 there's a U2 video"
Grandmother:"I saw your beautiful Bono on TV before"
Dad:" I saw Bono on TV the other day and I heard about this constest on the radio"
Cousin calls:"You know there this special about U2 on Much Music this weekend?"
So it's pretty pathetic...
My parents know that my obssession is in certain ways "unhealthy"...
During PopMart I was so hyper about the show I wanted to go catch a movie with one of my friends and my parents told me:
"You are not taking the car, you are way to hyper active, you are going to get into an accident"...
That was very funny... (I was 17... they still had some control over me back then)
But they've been pretty cool on a couple occasions. My dad brought me down to East Rutherford to see U2 (PopMart) and he called up an old friend so that I could see how they put up the stage in the Olympic Stadium (PopMart also).
They are mostly scared that my dreams will be crushed like when I wanted to go onstage with Bono. I showed my mom, a sign I made (which has ripped away by bodyguards) that read:"Won't you wrap the night around me?". I told my mom:"This is for when I'm going to be onstage!"
She just said:"Melissa... You're only a number to them... a money sign".
I sure showed her!
When I called her after going onstage, she thought I was joking.
When my parents asked me what happened with Bono I just went:"... well... he took my rose... brought me onstage... you know... that's about it"...
Mom:"Did you dance with him?"
Me:"Dance... yes... we "danced" "
When the video came along they watched it I was like:"See he pulled me over him... I didn't attack him... nope..." then when moaning started I just kept talking louder:"Yeah, so that's what happened... it was pretty funny... "
Then my dad said:"I don't know why he did that... I'm sure you would of prefered a slow dance"...
I just looked at him and said:"Yeah... that would be been better" *NOT*
So people around me have kind of accepted my obssession... and they help me collect items n' stuff... Never had any bad comments.... even my unkle said:"I saw Bono on CNN last night, he's a very good guy, he does a lot for the poor countries".
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"Forgive me Father!"- Bono on May 28th after rolling around with me