Posted by Mark on August 9, 2009, 0:14:54
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I arrived at the grounds at about 6:45 and was committed to yet another concert night with my friend who I've attended concerts with two of the previous four nights, slated to meet up with him at 7:30. Overall, it was a pretty weak night as Saturdays so often are. By the fair's final night, the party crowd tends to get bored with the fair and particularly with tonight's grandstand performer, the largely old-news Travis Tritt, the young crowds that swarmed the grandstand previous nights for more contemporary performers came in smaller numbers tonight. Furthermore, alot of familiar faces show up, and if the smokers of Saturday are the same girls as the smokers from nights previous, I don't count them in the tally. Still, there were a few things worthy of mention tonight.
I got myself all excited early on when I saw a guy smoking huddled near three adorable-looking 16ish girls, none of whom looked the slightest bit like smokers. Well it turns out they most likely weren't. When the cluster migrated from in front of the bathroom to behind, I thought for sure the girls were gonna light up too and made every awkward move imaginable to find a good vantage point without getting spotted. The cluster stuck around for 20 minutes or so and I kept close tabs on them, and regrettably none of the girls ever lit up.
I did stack up a half dozen or so modest sightings before meeting up with my friend and getting into a long conversation with another old friend I bumped into. When that wrapped up, we headed into the grandstand and this time I steered right to my preferred spot from the evening before overlooking the side gate where smokers congregate as well as the beer gardens. He's a great guy but not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so he followed my seating instruction without question and likely without suspicion of my true motives. The concert got off to a late start so we sat around quite some time with me looking over my shoulder spying on smokers. I would get what I presumed was a mother-daughter sighting with a middle-aged woman and a 20-something light brunette and modest beauty each smoking. It wasn't until the young woman stood up that I could see she was at least seven months pregnant. And I would see her come out to smoke no fewer than THREE additional times during the concert. Only at the local fair!!!
There were two 17ish girls that kept walking into the smoking area, one a curly-haired brunette and the other a long-haired blonde with a pink T-shirt and painted-on light blue jeans, neither of whom looked the least bit like smokers, and neither of whom would light up. It was a mystery...but one that paid dividends by evening's end. To be continued on this one....
Early on during the concert, I was overlooking the cluster and stumbled upon a very beautiful 20-something brunette who was standing with a cluster of adult smokers and finally lit up herself. From there I casually observed three teen girls join the cluster with food. It wasn't until the three teens proceeded into the grandstand that I had my jaw-dropping moment of the 2009 local fair. As I finally got a look at the faces of the three teen girls, I instantly identified the youngest and smallest as the strawberry blond 13-year-old from last year's epic behemoth family-of-smokers sighting and my #3 local fair sighting of all time, which took place exactly one year to the day on the Saturday evening of the fair. After spotting her, I looked at the other two girls with her. The one girl didn't look familiar, but sure enough, the other was the tall blonde who was smoking with her last year, minus the cowgirl hat and the glam miniskirt. Then I looked back to the adult cluster still outside smoking....and there she was, the mother who handed her young daughter a cigarette outside the gate last year after the concert. I was breathless, having felt as though I was robbed of fulfilling last year's sighting due to logistics and elated at the prospect of a second chance. I would spend the rest of the concert watching the grandstand exit like a hawk to keep tabs on when those girls stepped out.
While waiting, I was treated to a couple more quality sightings in the smoking area, with a scorching hot 18-19ish long-haired blonde in a denim miniskirt with black cowgirl boots heading out with her boyfriend. The boyfriend lit up and I was getting nervous that the girl wouldn't smoke, but after a couple of drags by the boyfriend he handed the cigarette to the cutie who would consume the majority of the rest of it, taking dense drags, holding the smoke in her lungs a couple seconds and then producing impressively cloudy exhales. For a girl who didn't seem to want to light up her own cigarette, she sure proved to be an accomplished smoker.
My second-best sighting of the night came next. A teenage dude steps out with two ponytailed cuties. The guy lit up a cigarette first and then offered one each to the girls, both of whom took it. From above, the girls looked about 16, with their ponytails giving them a fairly innocent look, but closer glimpses of their faces suggested they were more like 18. One girl was very thin, had dark blonde hair, a white top, and jean shorts. She looked like a smoker. The other girl, however, didn't. She had light brown hair and was just a little chubby (the kind of girl who will probably be overweight when she's 25 but has a certain cute semi-chubbiness at 18) and wore a cute pair of jean shorts herself. She handled the cigarette well, but I just got the feeling she was more of a social smoker. Incidentally, I caught my friend craning his neck the girls' direction when they smoked. Is it possible he has the fetish as well???? Anyway, the best part of this sighting came at the end when the chubbier girl, who I had thought was probably not a regular smoker, proceeded to flick the three-quarters smoked cigarette like a seasoned pro. I watched the all-white butt soar through the air before crashing onto the grass about 15 feet away and the cluster walked back into the concert. Interestingly, I would see this trio again in the fairgrounds after the concert, and seeing their faces up-close I became convinced my original assessment was more likely correct....they were probably only 16 judging by their fresh and innocent faces.
The concert drug on and on and on. The other concerts were all right around 90 minutes, but Tritt was feeling pretty generous apparently and sang for well over two hours. I was getting annoyed about losing out on evening fairgrounds sightings but at the same time had not seen that strawberry blonde exit the grandstand yet and figured my best chance of seeing her would be to stay right where I'm at and wait her out. But it just got the point where I knew it wasn't gonna happen. Addicted smokers like she and the blonde with her would not be sticking around this concert this long without detouring for a cigarette break. It's unlikely I missed them given how vigilantly I was watching, but it's likely that they walked out the other gate at some point during the show. Whatever the case, it was becoming more and more clear that I would not get to fulfill my dream of a dramatic replay to this epic sighting from 2008.
Brief epilogue to follow....
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