What’s it worth?

Mark saw that Elton John was going to play in Seattle and thought it might be fun to go to the concert.

Now we aren’t big concert goers, tending, as we do, to shy away from crowds. I think the last concert we attended was in Portland when we went to see Blondie, maybe 8 years ago. Not big concert goers at all. But we like to have special things to look forward to and this just seemed like a good idea. Until we saw the prices for tickets.

A single ticket – the lowest possible price and worst imaginable seat in the house – was $176. The best seats in the house were priced at $805. Each.

Are we that ‘out of it’ that we are shocked about this? Is it typical that a single special evening out should cost a couple the equivalent of their monthly mortgage payment, for example?

Would he sing, maybe 12 songs – 15 tops? He has to talk in between sets, of course. Advancing his political agenda or whatever (which, in MY opinion, he should be paying US to listen to but I guess THAT won’t happen.) So we’re talking, in a range here, between $107 and $134 a song for this ‘special’ evening?

Please, someone, tell me this isn’t the way of the world!


P.S. - New pictures from our Recent Excursion are on my website. I'm really going to try to keep it up to date! Well, we'll see...