THE STORY ABOUT HOW I ALMOST WENT TO A NINE INCH NAILS CONCERT
BUT I DIDNT, CUZ OUR TRAIN NEVER CAME!!!
1st anniversary btw!!!
Since we are nearing the start of july, artfight,
the end of pride month :( and the start of summer break yay!!!!!
we are also nearing the first anniversary of a very special day for me.
a day i call the ' nine inch nails ' incident among friends...
the most hottest day in the year of 2025.
but actually it all started on the fourth of june 2025 when i confessed to my mother that im a
nine inch nails fan (SHOCK!!!!) i was actually kinda scared tbh cuz i thought about everything
I ever read about this band before actually listening to them and just how hardcore and brutal
they used to be portraited as, especially during their prime in the 90s and i was scared
that my mother might have gotten wind of that and now thinks im like super weird and would decline
my request to go see them (real overthinker situation here)
But it all went fine, she believed she had never heard them before and she considered buying tickets!
I was ecstatic!! I pitched this idea to her in a park so when we went home after eating dinner there
we actually booked everything!! the tickets, the hotel, the ride there!!
sure it was expensive and definetly not a good financial decision BUT EYY, NINE INCH NAILSSS????
I slept good that night.
we got tickets for the berlin show despite being on a tuesday cuz the other show in germany was
in cologne on a friday where i had a field trip to a really stinky other city in germany to go watch
a play in a theater (one of the most fucked up things i have ever witnessed and lived through)
and my mother also had her 30 year class reunion thing, and for some reason
that was more important than
the nine inch long nails??? but ok. We will be fine with the show in berlin on a tuesday, right?
so obviously going to a city for a concert on a weekday is kinda difficult to do because of school or work
but fortunately on that day i didnt even had to skip school as planned cuz on that day they decided to do
a etiquette day, where we learned basic general etiquette (?) anyways it was boring as DARN and nothing much
happened but- I could leave 30 minutes early!! giving me enough time to grab my prepacked suitcase
change into something heat/weather approatite and feed my guinea pigs for a long one day riddance !
I got into the taxi and waited...
waited and bored myself out like it will be the shortest period of time i will today
but then we were finally there at the hamburg main train station !!
it was dirty... just as dirty and full as i remeber it being,
atleast this served as a reminder
as to why my mom always avoided this place and if we ever
had to welcome or goodbye someone we choose the
next closest one to this.
We make our way to the overfilled platforms and waited..........
and waited more.......
and so my first hour went by constanly switching platforms, checking the website and app for information and
doing UQuizzes!
I still dont get why i got that one...
Anyways my second hour passed also going outside to breathe actual air cuz it was so hot inside it felt like
breathing in other peoples sweat and boredom and texting with my friend while watching two little kids like...
dance around in the middle of the way people were walking on??? idk that day was such a blur
after the third hour passing and all the informations on the website just confusing us and making us worry
we started walking up to one of the DB (deutsche bahn) employee standing on the top of one of the
stairs leading to the platforms SURROUNDED by like 30 people, he looked like one of these sport people getting
just bombarded with questions at these like post game interviews with all the microphones pointed at them
but he looked surprsingly calm and chill and we got to ask him about our problem surprisingly fast tho
and what he basically just confirms to us is that the rails beetween hamburg and berlin are majorly under
construction and that only BUSSES could drive us there now.
a quick google search later: a bus drive there would cost us 4-6 hours...
we decided to immediately jump into the next taxi and just sit there...
well i just sat there my mother was frantically trying to
cancel and abort everything we already set in motion
like our seats at the concert, the hotel, our completely
paid train ride there and informing people about the
change in plan. Our taxi driver was nervously also
just sitting there 'istening' to ice cube on 0.05 volume
I lowkey just felt dissapointed thats it. I sent my friend this:
and bored myself out for the rest of the taxi drive back just like i did the last 4 hours
once i got home i YEETED off my sweat drenched death note shirt (skullemoji) and just never wore it again.
I then showed my mom the entirety of woodstock 94' which was cool i guess.
next day i went into school ready to tell the whole thing to my friend i texted in the pictures above.
they had a heat stroke.
or something atleast they were just laying there on the desk once i got into the classroom half dead.
so i turned to the internet to at least tell someone this story once
school got dismissed cuz of the temperatures
dudeeeeeeee, the subreddit was just full of people being like
'ive been to 3 nin concerts, and the one in berlin yesterday was the best EVER!!'
or they had the setlist there i kindaa tried avoiding and turns out
they had performed my favourite song that day :(
I didnt feel like ruining this memory for someone or anything so i just didnt post anything about it exept for
smaller stuff until now.
since then it kinda became a story i tell everyone once i warm up and i know they like my stories
some pity me some find this story kinda boring
i definetly was kind of a downer seeing the "on tour!" label everytime i searched them up
for still a long time after it happened and thinkig about the money and experince i have
lost because of a series of unfortunate events makes me nauseos (especially the money part)
but ehhhhh now my mother feels so bad about all this that she will immediatly buy vip tickets should they
make a europe tour again (which i hope) so...
pls trent dont retire before doing another europe tour
i know u have a kid named baltasar or sum and a wife but dont leave us here..
