30. Aug '26, 11:33 am

driving home after nina chuba's concert almost ended in a car crash

i started the day strong with some awful heartburn at 3am, so i got up and into the bathroom to get medicine for it and couldn't get back to sleep. so i decided to play some valorant with a friend until like 9am. that's when i decided to take a nap before driving to Nina Chuba, since i would need all of my energy! i was very excited about the concert. about 3½h later i got up and took a shower, picked an outfit and got ready to pick up Felix, who was going with me.
we decided to grab something to eat together and headed to subway, which was inside of a mall - and it was crowded AF. but subway itself luckily was very empty, so we got everything we wanted and decided to just eat there. OF COURSE i had to make a mess and dropped a bit of sauce onto my shirt, but wiping it away with a tissue was enough to remove it. i was worried about walking around with a giant stain on my shirt 😭 istg i might've bought a new shirt then & there at the mall.

anyway, we made our way back to the car and i asked Felix to type in the location of the venue into google maps and that's where the fun began! because one hour later we arrived at our destination which looked more like a library than a venue????? i got a little mad about it because what the FUCK. luckily the concert started at 7pm and it was only 6:30pm at that point. 20 minutes later we arrived on time at the correct address, paid 12€ parking fee and went to the venue. it was an outside venue which i didn't know! i thought we would be inside (and i also thought it was a completely different venue LMAO) but Felix was well organized and knew everything that needed to be known for that day, even though i was the one buying tickets. he even brought a rain coat, while i was just wearing some cargo shorts and a tshirt 🤭 i thought he was overprepared, but he actually just checked the weather cast (which i didn't) and knew there was a chance of rain during the concert.

like i said, we parked, we went to the venue, we grabbed something to drink and made our way into the crowd. the support act for Nina Chuba was Emma Rose. i listened to some of her songs a few days prior but for some reason i didn't like them that much, but again her live performance was very good and i enjoyed the songs! she has a song called "stargirls" (click on her name to listen to it) which i LOVE tho and she actually played it!! i was so happy about that and Emma seems like a real cutie patootie as well! she was talking about how she never felt like her body was right and yada yada yada and sang a song about it (all in german) and i did connect with that. i also thought it was a great message for all of the younger girls who visited the concert too. half an hour later she announced her last song and the venue started playing some songs everybody was able to sing along to, to lift the mood (which was good anyway). everyone was kinda singing along to i gotta feeling and some more songs i already forgot, oopsie. and then they started the KISS & HUG CAM which was incredibly wholesome, because there was a lot of couples kissing of course, but also queer relationships showing and some sweet moments where mums & dads were hugging their kids or giving them a peck on the cheek. occasionally there would be WOOs and AWWs. medical staff, concert staff & even Nina herself weren't safe from that cam! but my personal highlight would be a couple shown kissing and someone went in front of them and made a disgusted face to which i BURST OUT LAUGHING (nick would know too well which kind of laugh).

then Nina got on stage and the energy was so good! i also liked how she was singing about the sky crying and then it actually started raining. Felix was smart enough and put on his rain jacket AND EVERYBODY ELSE TOO and i stood there completely unprepared but to be quite honest i didn't really care about it that much annnnd everyone kept putting their jackets on and off whenever the rain came and stopped, which was way too much effort for just some minor inconvenience. it actually created a really beautiful picture with all of the stage lighting and confetti bombs! i think Nina played all of my favorite songs and i overall had a really great time there! can't say anything else. she was giving what i hoped she would give! and THANK GOD she said Hannover was a great audience since she mentioned earlier that some concerts had been lacking energy... eek.
NOT WITH ME. i was singing and dancing and having a good time. i even saved some piece of the long confetti you can see on the picture :D

the concert ended and the most dreaded part of the day was waiting for me: driving back home. in the dark. through the rain. and everybody knows that i just can't see well in the dark, i get easily blinded and my windshield wipers are literally just smearing everything from left to right 😭 (at some points they work as they should but idk why but they only work when they have been on for some time???). but first i had to get out of that parking lotand that was a challenge itself. everybody was trying to sneak themselves into the lane to get out and i wanted to be kind and signaled two cars to go in front of me and that one guy expected me to let him in front of me too and almost crashed into my car. this behaviour brought out some stubbornness i didn't know I had LMAO because i left absolutely no space between my car and the car in front of me so he couldn't sneak his car between us forcing me to make room for him. i stood my ground and about 10 minutes later we were off of that parking lot. one hour later we arrived back at Felix' place where i dropped him off. i had to drive another 20 minutes to my town and that seemed to be a challenge as well, because i had a car in front of me, which would go only 30km/h at times for no reason at all. i had to change into second gear while turning a corner where one was allowed to drive 70km/h??? i was going INSANE. but who knows, maybe it was an elder human afraid of the dark and also not able to see right in the rain (probably me in 30 years). i arrived home safely tho and ate my subway cookie before going to bed.

again; see you next week ♥️

Hi, I'm Danny

Currently 30 years old and constantly broke from buying concert tickets. Find out more on my allmylinks :)

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