Well, you're going to crap your pants here, but I think you're on to something, and maybe even should be able to go to the concert.

On the other hand, you darned well better respect and obey your parents. To NOT do so will come back to bite you in the butt many times over.

There were times when we allowed our sons to go to school late, because there was a concert they really wanted to go to the night before. Also we let our daughter, who is now in high school, go to school at noon - shortly before Christmas - because she was playing cello for a college Christmas concert that went rather late one night.

But here's the glitch, from the perspective of the dad: We always used that special privilege as leverage. We'd make them promise us something if we extended that grace to them.

So maybe you ought to just ask your parents what it would take - if there's anything you could do that could go towards some sort of a fair trade-off.

It might not work, but who knows.


But I gotta say... Cradle of Filth? What the heck is THAT crap?