Take That and an old lady
It was the motherships 70th birthday last year.
She loves Take That. She is also the kindest most thoughtful, sweet, soft, old lady you could ever meet.
I have to say I quite like them too but never that much I would want to go see them.
Then 'The Circus' tour was announced. I decided to get her a ticket a whole 10 months in advance.
This meant I could give her the ticket for Christmas and then plan to go see them the following June.
She opened her present on Christmas morning, put her hand to her mouth, and tears filled her eyes. I nearly wept, she was SO excited. It became her entire focus for the next few months.
Her birthday suddenly came upon us, so she came to Bristol and we drove over to Cardiff. She had never been to a 'big' concert before so had no idea what to expect. The town was buzzing! packed full of people all heading to the stadium for the big event.
Outside she saw the tour buses and was speechless at the enormity of it all.
I took her picture outside the stadium, grinning, holding onto her ticket like she was Charlie and her ticket was golden.
We wandered in. I have been there before but she had never been anywhere bigger than the Liverpool empire so the scale, the height, the atmosphere freaked her right out!
We found our seats right up high, and sat waiting. She was like a kid. A 70 year old lovely old lady with a face of a child.
Then they came on. A huge cavalcade of balloons headed out into the middle of the stadium. Then, they appeared and started to sing 'Greatest day'. 'tonight this could be, the greatest night of our lives...'...I looked over at this pink, kind soft old lady and she had tears in her eyes. I was filled with such a love for her at that moment I thought my heart would burst.
All the way through she was enthralled, laughing, speechless...
Then the final song came on. They did the song from Stardust 'Rule the world'.
Oh I'm filling up now just thinking about it.
As they finished I looked at her and she was crying. Hands on her face, trying to hold it in. But she was crying. It took every ounce of strength in my body not to collapse in floods of tears at how happy she was. I gave her a big hug and told her how much I loved her.

Then it was all over and we made our merry way home through the crowds.

She sent me a card the next week saying thank you for the best night of her life.
I know it was too.
If I never have a beautiful moment again I will always be so glad I did that for her. She is now starting to fade, her health is deteriorating, but I know we will always have that magical night where she experienced the wonder of cheesy pop stars who made her cry with happiness.

What more could you ask?
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 1:45, 19 replies)

excuse me a moment
*grabs hankies*
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 1:55, closed)

You're a good egg...
& you're mum's a lucky lady
(Dr Fishfinger Want's to see a fat man give a tit wank, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 2:08, closed)

That gave me goosebumps!
You are a lovly human being

Edit: have a missing "e"
( jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Fri 6 Aug 2010, 2:15, closed)

bubbles up
Cant say thats happened with anything TT related ever in my life before
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 2:18, closed)

Beautiful story
Deserves more than one click
(bigjonnydynamite, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 2:25, closed)

Ta.
and to everyone ^^^^
I have been weepy since I posted this thinking about how ace it was and your responses have made me more so! Bless her. Seeing her tomorrow and can't wait. She is a real star.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 2:29, closed)

That was the best post I've read in a long time.
Anyone got a kleenex, I think I have allergies, my eyes are leaking
(nolongernuts, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 3:51, closed)

ahem
pass me one too please
(whiskas loved by 8 out of 10 cats, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 18:31, closed)

Making grandmas happy is the best thing in the world.

( Bats, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 8:50, closed)

What a beautiful lead into the weekend. For everything that seems rotten at times, there are scrumptious people like yourself who make the world all glorious and right.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 8:57, closed)

I think
I've got a pringle in my eye. *dabs daintily*
(Bababoon, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 10:17, closed)

Excellent stuff
A well earned click for you and your mum. :)
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Fri 6 Aug 2010, 12:59, closed)

Blimey.
Lovely story and had me welling up reading it. All of us should aim to make our mothers that happy. Nice one.
( Evil Bastardo, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 15:00, closed)

Awesome
Story - proper welling up now


*goes off to call Mum*
(hating swallows is 20 yards from the nearest Jaffa cake, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 17:43, closed)

My mum got the Blu Ray of their Circus tour last Xmas
She watched it one day and made me watch some bits of it when I got home in the evening. I say "made me" - after the first couple of clips I sat and watched almost all of the rest. Absolutely phenomenal performance, what a show! She told me the other week that they're going to be touring again soon, I immediately said "I'm taking you!" and I think she was very pleased :)
(Kazzahdrane, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 17:58, closed)

DO IT!
It was an ace show indeed, I bet she would love it.
If all else fails show her some of the recent kitteh links from on here till she is crying with laughter so much she says 'Stop it..stop it! I can't seeeeeeeee!'
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 0:05, closed)

same same but different
I sent my mum off to the woman in white and took my dad and my brothers to see Kylie...

Awesome. will never forget it.
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 1:24, closed)

Sniffs
Best. Grandchild. Ever.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 21:38, closed)

Sorry..
It appears I have something in my eye.

That's such a sweet thing to do.
(Aruu does not put all her trust in root vegetables., Mon 9 Aug 2010, 20:17, closed)