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Tonight marks the kick-off date of the Hannah Montana tour—the official Hottest Ticket Of The Year, especially among attorney generals—and in their last-minute scramble to prevent their eight-year-olds from having week-long tantrums, parents across America are lining up for the chance to make complete asses out of themselves (and their employees):
With the 54-date "Best of Both Worlds Tour" kicking off in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday, local radio station Y98 offered dads the chance to be their daughter's hero by putting on heels and racing 50 yards to win four tickets.
"We got a couple of hundred phone calls from people asking questions about where to get high heeled shoes big enough for husbands and about 150 men turned up in high heels," Mark Edwards, director of programming at Y98, told Reuters.
He said the field for the "high heel derby" was narrowed down to 50 runners and won on Wednesday by Matt Austin, who was competing on behalf of his boss who has a young daughter.
Competing on behalf of his boss? Wow. That guy deserves a raise. But really, Y98 missed out on an amazing cross-promotional opportunity by not forcing the be-heeled men to engage in a line-dancing contest; now that would have stoked a lot of embarrassment in the hearts of all the girls whose fathers were losers!
Parents go to extremes for Hannah Montana tickets [Reuters]
[Photo: AP]
Comments
Um, it's attorneys general. Unless you're an uptight academic from Lisbon Falls: [blogs.wsj.com]
I work in the building next to ScottTrade Center. Thousands of soccer moms from the county in their super-sized SUV's clogging up traffic and almost paralyzed with fear because they are all afraid of driving in the city (because they might come into contact with a black person).
The kids ranged from 5-12 and the moms all headed straight for the bar (Chaperones were not required to have tickets to the show, but they couldn't go into the seating area and instead had to wait in the bar/restaurant area from 5.30 to concert end (9.30?). I haven't checked the news but I'm guessing there were at least dozens of fender benders coming out of the parking garage.
Of course, they had enough trouble driving into the garage sober, so leaving must have been a clusterfuck of mammoth proportions. So glad it's over...
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