Mom’s night out, what could go wrong you might ask? But what you should be asking is what are all the great things that are gonna go right!
Hollywood has made millions of dollars around the concept of “mom’s taking the night off and letting loose” because let’s face it, we don’t get to do it often so when we finally get the opportunity we hit the ground running full speed towards the door and go at it like we have been dieting for 3 months and finally get to eat a cheeseburger (you all know what I am talking about).
Anyone recall the epic movie Mom’s Night Out , a group of friends decide to have a night out and leave their children home with their dads; unfortunately their dinner reservations get screwed up and I think one of the dads lose a baby. Dang, so much for a stress free night out…would have been better off staying in ladies!
But then, there was the movie Fun Mom Dinner, now that was a fun mom’s night out! I think at one point there was a mom leaving a drugstore in a pair of unicorn pajamas; with FEET.
A couple nights ago my girlfriend and I set out on one of these “Mom’s Gone Wild” nights out and it was a great combination of both of these Hollywood portrayals.
We started out with an hour and a half car ride to a Luke Bryan concert, prepared for wet and muddy conditions as it had been raining most of the day. We had stopped for beer and dare I say it, a bottle of whiskey to keep us warm and we were ready to get our country on. And then it began. Just four miles from the venue something told me to ask my girlfriend if she had remembered to bring the tickets…by the look of panic followed by the loss of color and the shear horror that came over her face I knew at that moment she had forgotten them. (Did I tell you it took and hour and a half to get there..and we were FOUR miles from arriving?!)
We spent the next hour on the phone with ticket master while straightening out our lack of ticket situation but when it was finally finished we weren’t going to let it damper our night! We broke out the beer and opened the whiskey and started our parking lot party. Most of the people around us were way more prepared for this little tailgate adventure then we were, they had tents, and chairs in addition to alcohol as well as food (ohhhhh food, something that neither of us had had all day..doh.) Did you know that drinking while taking cold medicine intensifies the effects of the alcohol, yea, well it isn’t a myth ladies, no it is not. All of a sudden I was Yogi Bear and she was Boo Boo and “I’m thinking about stealing me a picnic basket!”
We managed to hold our composure long enough to get our tickets from will call (shout out to the guy at ticket master for making it possible!) stumble inside the gates and get food once it opened and it all seemed like it was gonna be smooth sailing from that point forward…until...it came time to rent our chairs and my girlfriend had lost the tickets we had JUST received for our chair rentals. Yes, you heard me correctly, twice in one night! At this point everything was funny and we were going to dance the night away regardless! There might even be some video footage on an iPhone to prove it.
Everything that could have went wrong, went wrong but you want to know what went right? For the hours between 3 and midnight, we weren’t mom’s. We were two girlfriends out in the world with no one asking for snacks, whining about being bored, arguing with their siblings, talking back to us or demanding anything of us. We got to just be us; and that was priceless.
So the moral of this little story is, get your girlfriend(s), find yourself a sitter for a couple hours and get out into the world and be who you were before you started referring to yourself as mom in the third person all day…trust me, it’s therapeutic.
Cheers!
