I have had a few people message me about the heat in Dallas referred to in my last post. I honestly don’t know how people live in that kind of weather…. unless you were raised in it!
To continue my story from the last blog to drive home the heat point:
When I arrived to be “Singer at Bar”, they put me in black skintight pleather pants and a random top. It was 500 or more degrees outside and inside, because of filming, the bars air conditioning had to be off!!! Since I was “Singer at Bar” they needed to show me on stage with not only the ‘stage’ lights but the SET LIGHTS!!!! I was melting. I kept saying, “It is very hot, my clothes are going to catch fire!”. They all laughed….I was serious. “She needs to spend some time in the south to toughen up!”. Actually I grew up in Michigan and walked to school in 80 feet of snow you (insert nasty name here)!- is what I should have said. But this Los Angeles ‘valley girl’ just sat there mute. I was best friends with the Eagles after all and everyone, by this point, knew it!
The next few hours of me sitting on a twice lit stage, in a hot bar, in the dead of summer in Dallas was not fun! Plus the ‘she doesn’t know what hot is” comments were frankly ticking me off! So when I stood up from my barstool, to go with everyone to lunch, and my pleather pants did not stand with me I was vindicated. I was standing with buttless chaps basically!! The butt in my pants had melted to the stool and ripped away when I stood up. “Is it normal for your pants to melt off you? Is this something this California girl should get used to…to toughen up?”. Meanwhile my stop sign red butt frying in all it’s glory….
People all of a sudden were nicer. It wasn’t ‘Oh…Valley Girl” anymore….It was “We need to treat you kindly or we could get sued for not listening Valley Girl”. Hahahaha.
I still have the buttless pants somewhere in this house. Again, trying to get rid of crap like that!! I hoard the most random stuff. Buttless chaps to the trash!! Wait…..Said with no teeth- “these are the pants your great Grandma wore when they melted off my hot tuckus!!” Sadly I WILL be that grandma….on second thought, maybe I will keep the pants:)