11/22/2025
Gallagher was the best comedian...I grew up watching him with my Dad. He was clever & original. One of the greats. One year for Christmas my brother had got my Dad tickets to see him & asked if I wanted to go with Dad. Of course, that would be the greatest!
The show was on new years day...the day after my sinus surgery. I had a rolled up gauze under my nose to catch any blood , and I was ready with a mustache drawn on it.
We got to Rosemont, paid $20 to park, walked up to the doors in the freezing cold. Dad gave the guy our tickets & it wouldn't scan. He made us move over & someone came by and explained someone has already checked in for the show with those tickets. That people do this, and if we wanted to see the show we had to purchase tickets at the will call. Dad was like, "na...we'll go" & walked so fast to the car, my pain med self was trying to catch up. We got in the car and I said that ain't right. We could buy it & B can get the money back. He just said "Na", and little up a cigarette. Didn't even get the parking money back....he just drove out. That was the longest, quietest and awkward drive home.
I so wanted to go. I was so excited and I know he was too.
That was January 1, 2019. He passed away in 2022. I feel incomplete and wish I could rewind time like a VHS tape & get there a little sooner and be the 1st one's through with those tickets. I still think sometimes about what cool memories & souvenirs could have been there.
The same Rosemont Horizon where my favorite yearly past times of going to Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus was, the memories of childhood mixed with the smell of popcorn & ci******es. Ah, the 80s man.....
I'm going revamp his I'm still stuck in the 60s song....I say....I'm still stuck in the 80s.
STAY TUNED....
