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Wisin Y Yandel: Up Close & Personal

It was my first Reaggaeton concert and it certainly won’t be my last, if my hearing isn’t permanently impaired!

  Mujeres In the Club  by  MLEstyle

Being in the front row at the Wisin Y Yandel concert is mega exciting. You can feel the sweat dripping off of the singers and dancers, and everyone in the house is moving their hips and bouncing around to the strong Latin beat; it’s no wonder why their shows get so caliente!

So as I said before, mega exciting. Take my word for it. Now here’s the humor in it all. Yes, I was in the front row, and yes, I was at least a head taller than everyone at the concert! So you can imagine that I stuck out like a sore thumb! Note to self: When going to Latin concerts, wear flats. My natural height is 5’8″…now with heels (the kind that I wear), I’m 6’0″ or 6’1″. And that’s how tall my mystery man is too. So there we were, two towering people in the front row, and I was just waiting for the crowd to start yelling, “Down in front!! Down in front!!” Fortunately for us, that never happened!

Now, as some may know, I grew up with a French Stepfather. The closest Spanish speaking relatives that I have are Janette and Jasmine, who really aren’t blood related, but rather they’ve worked for my family for so long that I feel like I grew up with them. Needless to say, the ladies are so so so sweet and hardworking that they always make a concerted effort to speak to me in English. So, my Spanish is basically at the beginning of the beginner level. Encouraging.

With little or no knowledge of the Spanish language, I danced my butt off with a huge smile on my face, with my mystery man on my right and a group of middle school kids on my left, to songs that I later found out were saying things like, “tonight is the night for sex…” Uhhhhhh, OMG. Can you say, “Drew Barrymore in the movie Never Been Kissed when she’s dancing with the pink boa in between her legs on stage,” moment?? Kuuhhhraaaahhp. I’m sure the whole, “I’m waaay taller than everyone here at this concert and standing in the front row,” really helped the, “I’m dancing with a smile on my face to a song about having sex tonight, with middle school kids next to me,” scenario. What a debacle.

And as the concert and fun began to wind down, I realized that my ears were ringing unusually loud! Like, hello…I was nearing deaf. I turned to my mystery man and all too loudly exclaimed, “THIS CAN’T BE GOOD!!” And he put his finger over his lips and attempted to tell me, “Shhhh!” When all I heard was, “RiIiIiInNnNnNgGgGgG!!!” You know when you used to listen to your CD player (omg…that will date me in years to come!) with your headphones on, as you were trying to concurrently hold a conversation with someone else? And the first bit of feedback you always received was, “You’re talking too loud!” Well last night, for me, was one of those moments.

As my mystery man dropped me off, I told him to call me when he got back to his place. And he did. Except I couldn’t hear him!!! So after a struggling bedtime phone conversation, I called it a night and told him we’d talk in the morning, when my hearing would certainly be better. Right? Wrong.

How do deaf people wake up to their alarms in the morning???! I let my alarm go off for 10 minutes before I actually heard it. What an excuse to be late for work. It’s almost as bad as the old, “my dog ate my homework,” trick.

So it’s the morning after the concert, my hearing completely sucks, I’m trying to take phone calls at the office and it seems that I’ve asked every caller, “could you please speak louder,” and, “could you say that again, please?” My guess is I’ve used the word, “huuuhh?” in one morning alone, more than I would in several weeks. I’m deaf.

So as I spend all morning learning these:

And investing in a pair of these:

You can spend your time looking at these:

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