Last night we went to a free concert. Nothing exciting, just a small concert in the center of town where performers were singing cover songs. I was quite surprised however, to see the common characteristics in the majority of concert goers. There were bleached blondes dragging children around, old women with big gaudy jewelry and bright scary make up, and old men who just generally looked like they had resigned themselves to being there. Absolutely everyone was smoking. There were free ice cream sandwiches that people were grabbing by the bunch and not even trying to be subtle about it. People were yelling at children or greeting each other in rough, scratchy sounding voices. A random girl who claimed to be 22 but seemed much younger approached us out of nowhere and started to tell jokes that made no sense. The whole experience was surreal. It was more fun people-watching than listening to the music. And you really can't complain about free ice cream sandwiches, especially because they were half chocolate and half vanilla, the likes of which I had never seen before.   ¶ 5:15 PM