2017 Indy 500-- Part 16: Drunks, Beet Towers and the Ladies

FRIDAY, MAY 26

The concert area definitely needs a 55+ age area.  Old as I am, though, I still manage to get by, but next time will bring along a folding chair.  All that standing is getting rough in these old days.

And was it ever hot with a blazing sun beating down.  Every so often a breeze would provide relief and I sure appreciated the occasional clouds to blot out the sun.

It was a very youthful crowd and there were a lot of drunks.  You can bring your alcohol with you at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, even on the 500 race.  That is sure a break from the overpriced beverage choice most anywhere else you go.  I would have liked to have the aluminum can concession afterwards. Lots and lots of cans.

Lots of drunks and, of course, with the younger set, lots of tats.

The lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies said he would run the race track tomorrow in a race car , but expects to be some sort of hazard.

We had several groups of people using duct tape to tape together beer cans and form towers, one of them must have been 15 feet or higher.  The problem was that the higher the tower got, the more it bent over.  The Barenaked Ladies saw this and threw together an ad lib song about the beer towers.

Watch Out for Falling Beer Cans.  --RoadTower