Steve Sauceda

I pronounce it Sao-Sea-Duh • A glimpse, not the whole picture

[KD$ign @KnoxEndemic]

Apparently concert venues are having a hard time getting Millennials to fill the seats. Well, hello. Millennial here. I think I can help.

DEAR CONCERT VENUES:

🎟️ Just tell me what the ticket costs. I do not want to select a $79 ticket and discover at checkout that it is actually $146 because of a facility fee, service fee, processing fee, and a fee for having successfully paid the other fees.

📱 Stop making ticket buying a military operation. I should not need three apps, a verified fan code, a presale password from a credit card I don’t own, and 11:00 AM availability on a Tuesday to buy two seats.

💺 Assigned seats. We did our time standing shoulder-to-shoulder at shows in 2008. Some of us have mortgages now. Some of us have sciatica.

🕖 Start earlier. A 7 PM show is not embarrassing. In fact, I would like to formally recognize whoever invented the 7 PM show.

⏰ And tell us the actual times. “Doors at 7” is not useful information if the opener starts at 8:15 and the person I came to see appears at 10:07.

🚗 Parking instructions written for a normal person. Tell me which garage to use, what it costs, and whether I will spend 55 minutes trying to leave it afterward. I am willing to pay $20 for certainty.

🍺 I will buy your $14 beer. I have accepted this. But if I miss three songs waiting for it, you have broken the social contract.

🚽 Enough bathrooms. We are in our 30s and 40s. Half of us have had children. This is now infrastructure.

🔉 It can still be loud. We are Millennials, not the Greatest Generation. But some of us are bringing earplugs now and we are no longer ashamed of it.

DEAR ARTISTS:

⏰ Please go on roughly when you said you would. We have babysitters. The babysitter has an end time. This is now a logistics problem involving several adults.

🎤 Play the songs from 2004–2014. You know which ones. We know which ones. Nobody needs to pretend otherwise.

🎶 Play some new stuff. Absolutely. We support your continued artistic development. But there is a point in the evening when you need to play the song that was on our iPod Nano while we drove to high school.

📵 You can tell us to put our phones away. We secretly want someone to make us do this anyway.

🪑 An intermission would not offend us. We can use the bathroom, answer the babysitter, check whether the dog has destroyed anything, and look at Zillow for eight minutes.

And please understand: Millennials still like concerts.

We have disposable income now. We are nostalgic. We will absolutely spend irresponsible amounts of money to hear a band we first discovered on LimeWire.

But we also have jobs, children, dogs, mortgages, lower-back problems, and a very clear memory of when concert tickets cost $35.

You want Millennials back?

Make it easy to buy the ticket. Tell us when the show actually starts. Give us somewhere to sit. Play the song from 2007.

We’ll be there.

We just need to be home by 11.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

I’ve said the same thing for years!!

[Eli @elkelk]

Never understood why boarding a flight early is a “perk”

Great, I get to sit for an extra 22 minutes in an uncomfortable seat while we don’t move

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

Our future is shaped by the habits we repeat, not the goals we set.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

Instead of New Year's resolutions, let's have some New Year's realizations. Because nothing we attempt to change is going to stick if we remain stuck in our same old patterns.

[Alabama Football @AlabamaFTBL]

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#RollTide

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

@ScottHanson #NFLRedZone

[MLB @MLB]

The @Yankees are diving head-first into the ALDS!

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

I believe that not only does God restore what we lost, He upgrades it! 💥

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

God’s “no” is often a better yes”! Whatever you thought was best…God has better!

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

According to psychology, if you apologize for things that aren't your fault, constantly check if someone's mad at you, or feel guilty for resting- that's not just anxiety, that’s a trauma response from being taught that your worth depends on how useful or likable you are.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

@Superman #stop

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

Any relationship you have that could be ruined by having a conversation about your feelings, standards, and/or expectations wasn’t really stable enough to begin with, friend.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

Forgiving yourself is as important as forgiving others. Guilt is toxic.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

It does not matter how much scripture anyone quotes. How we treat people will ALWAYS speak louder.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

NOTHING on social media shows the full story. Everyone has issues. Everyone has insecurities. Everyone is fighting a battle they don’t talk about. Don’t let your brain create a fairy tale. No one escapes real life.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

“What is life teaching you right now?”

Overextending yourself doesn't make people appreciate you more.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

Healthy relationships aren’t found; they’re worked on & created.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

Avoiding hard conversations doesn’t protect the bond; It slowly damages it until there's nothing left to fix.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

You can be a good person with a kind heart and still say no. The only people who will get upset about you setting boundaries are the ones who were benefitting from you having none.

[Steve Sauceda @stevesauceda3]

Five things that are not your job: (1) always holding it together (2) being liked all the time (3) doing it all (4) fixing or saving people (5) pleasing everyone.