There once was a girl. Her name was Lori, see her below in the picture with her letter to Billy telling all about this crazy adventure.
Lori really liked Billy Joel and she found out that there was going to be a concert in Seoul. So she asked all her friends to go but none of them were interested. Now Lori was a smart child of the 21st century so she decided to use Facebook to find some friends to go with her to the Billy Joel concert. Here are some of those crazy new friends below at T.G.I. Friday's before the show.
But how you ask, did she find these new friends? She used the Facebook search to look for people who lived in South Korea and had Billy Joel listed in their favorite music. This may be the most successful Facebook stalking story ever told! She sent these stalkees messages explaining about the concert and asking who wanted to go. 12 brave souls replied. And before they knew it, they all went to the Billy Joel concert together.
They were all enjoying the concert very much, but they had nosebleed seats, and even with the 10x optical zoom camera, this is the closest picture they could get. So four Americans (of course) decided they wanted to be closer. So they rushed down to the stage. But alas, there was a cheap plastic barrier to get onto the main floor, guarded by ushers. The ushers rebuffed the Americans. But the Americans were sneaky and knew what they wanted. So they pretended to be sad and go back to their seats. Once the trusting ushers turned their backs (Koreans are BIG rule followers), the Americans jumped the cheap plastic barrier and made for the stage.
They got very, very close to Billy Joel, about 5th row back standing at the foot of the stage.. And this made them very happy because Billy Joel is very cool. Soon the rule-following ushers struck again. They tried to break up the happy little crowd at the foot of the stage. The Koreans obediently started shuffling quickly and quietly back to their seats. But the Americans started leaving only slowly and reluctantly. When the very cool Billy Joel saw what was happening to his fans, he stopped midsong. He was very angry about this dispersement of his avid followers. So he yelled at the ushers, "Hey, what the f@!k?"
Immediately the Americans rushed back to the stage and now they were in the first and second row at the bottom of the stage. And the four Americans were even happier than before! The Billy Joel concert was amazing, all should hope to be so cool at that point in their lives. The Americans were very happy because Billy Joel touched their hands and sang all their favorite songs. 
One of the Americans even got a great video of part of Billy Joel singing Pianoman but was thwarted by Blogger not uploading it. It can be seen on the aforementioned Facebook page.After the concert ended, the newly minted friends had so much energy, they decided they must go to the Noiribang and sing Billy Joel songs late into the night.
So that is just what they did. And there was much joy and singing throughout the land. All because the magic of Billy Joel brought them together.
Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and the new friends sadly parted in the spirit of Billy Joel, promising to keep in touch through the thing that had brought them all together: The Facebook.But the adventure was not over for our two young adventurers from Cheongju. They needed sustenance and a place to lay their weary heads for they did not live in Seoul. So after some searching they found a jinjibang.
Jinjibangs are Korean spas which offer many great things like saunas, whirlpools of many temperatures, steamrooms, and scrubbing stations. One enters these naked so they are separated by gender. But there is a common room with a TV, computers, a snack bar, human kilns and sleeping mats where all can come together. Weary travellers such as ours can sleep there, in the jinjibang pajamas which look like prison uniforms. It is quite inexpensive as well between $4-$10 depending on the jinjibang, much cheaper than a motel.
So the two weary travellers slept a good and cheap sleep at the jinjibang, a first for them both. Then the next morning they recharged themselves with Belgian waffles, fruit and gelato. And they were happy!
The End
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