To Each

How about this? I won't make fun of you waiting in line to see Bon Jovi, and you don't make fun of iPhone fanatics, k?

At the head of the line at the East 72nd Street entrance were a Staten Island couple, Joe Nielsen, 52, and his wife, Cathy Griffin, 48, who had been there since 7 p.m. Friday, 25 hours before Bon Jovi was supposed to start rocking. A few spots behind them was Melissa Wolfenbarger, 30, a teacher from California who, after getting the group’s frontman, Jon Bon Jovi, to autograph her back in 2005, did what any die-hard fan would do: She had his signature tattooed onto her body.

Ms. Wolfenbarger waited in line with her friend Jennifer Farrell, a Bon Jovi fan who is no less dedicated. “I named my daughter after him,” Ms. Farrell said of her 2-year-old, Alyssa Jovie Farrell.

Ms. Farrell, 31, an administrative assistant from Long Island who said her biggest thrill was getting kissed on the lips by Mr. Bon Jovi as he sang “Bed of Roses” during a 2005 concert in New Jersey, had her father to thank for their choice spots in line. Her father, Mike Sekosky, 58, had arrived at 3 a.m.