Ever do something really dumb? Well, I might be by myself on this, no take that back, my INSANE friend, who shall remain nameless (wife of Scott Smith), has been really dumb before too! Dana called me on Thursday of this week and said that the Cheetah Girls were coming to Alltel Arena in December. Of course I was interested in this, anyone who has a 7 year old little girl knows that this is a BIG deal. I said, yeah, count us in....she said she would call back with the details later...One day later (FRIDAY, NOON) she calls and says that she has called the box office and they are expecting tickets to go like hotcakes. She asks them when the box office opens and they say 10 a.m. but we expect people to be lining up for them around 6 a.m. Well. We got the kids after school and went to LR in search of dinner and a movie and a hotel and Cheetah Girl tickets.
We got in around 11 after the movie and got kids to bed and woke up 5 minutes later (5:30 a.m. - yes, it does come twice a day...who knew??) to go get Cheetah tickets. We got up and got the kids dressed and at 6:30 we were sitting in front of ALLTEL arena with 7 other Psychotic women. About 8 or 9 a few more showed and by 10 there was about 55 people there. You were allowed only 8 tickets per person. We had a plan...we would get right beside box office and windows and make sure we were in the same row...We wanted to be on the FLOOR in the ACTION....we were the 2nd people to our window and we were lucky to get in the same section...all of our tickets are split up and we are in the CHEAP SEATS. They had sold 2500 tickets the day before (I guess to the corporate giants and those with special priveleges) and by the time we got to order our tickets at about 10:08 we were already in the back of the floor people in the CHEAP seats! To top it off, we were going to get back in line for another friend and get her tickets, but she ordered hers online about 2 minutes after we did and got the same section! I was in UTTER SHOCK AND DISMAY at the thought that I could be sitting home in my PJ's, drinking coffee, and ordering tickets with a slight processing fee...yet, I had bought a hotel room, dinner, lunch, and shopping the next day, and spent 4 hours in line for the same ticket she got for $9 extra dollars. UUUGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! I think if you care enough to spend the effort, time and money you should get to sit on the Front Row! Call me Crazy!
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Freddy T.
Posted by: Freddy T. Wyatt | October 23, 2006 at 12:33 PM
Holy cow. Love the new look! How'd you do it?
Posted by: Jeff Noble | October 02, 2006 at 09:57 PM
Okay, call me crazy too, but who are the Cheetah Girls? Any kin to the Spice Girls? Do they serve Cheetos at this gig? And where does Chester fit in all this?
Posted by: Monica | October 02, 2006 at 09:20 AM