Category: entertainment

Old Friends – Update

I have a ticket to see Simon & Garfunkel!

At 7:25 PM tonight I pulled up ticketmaster.com and started hitting refresh, waiting for the text saying “Pre-sale 09/28/2003 7:30 pm” to be replaced by a link saying “Find Tickets.” When it finally changed, I was shocked to be offered four tickets on my first attempt.

My mother and I had discussed, in detail, the steps we were going to take to try to secure tickets. Each member of my family, as well as my sister’s boyfriend, was to be stationed at his or her computer, phone in hand, in hopes that one of us would be able through. What we hadn’t discussed was if we were willing to pay for more than the base level tickets, so when I saw the tickets being offered were $127 each, I called my parents to confirm that they wanted me to get them.

It turned out we were all at the same stage and all wondering the same thing. I had already decided that I would pay pretty much whatever it took to get to this show and thought my parents felt the same way. As I was about to purchase the tickets, though, my mom announced that she wasn’t going because it was on a week night and she felt that she’d be too tired the next day. Then my father said he didn’t have an interest in going. And then my sister said she only wanted to go if the whole family went.

So I hung up and purchased one ticket to the 12/9 Simon & Garfunkel show in Philadelphia. If I read the seating chart correctly, I will be in the fifth row.

I’m disappointed that I’ll be going alone but a decision had to be made quickly, and even so, I’m not sure I’ll be able to survive the anticipation of the next two and a half months.

Complete unrelated — I saw “Matchstick Men” tonight and recommend it. Thought provoking, funny, touching, and even slightly surprising. Go see it or save it to your queue.