Ticket tales (or we fought the law and we won!)

[briancady@juno.com (Brian S Cady)]

	Max the Mod and I met at a Publix supermarket this morning to buy
our Who tickets for Lakewood Amphitheatre.  Two other guys showed up and
in order to speed up our chances we decided to buy all our tickets at
once.  So we pooled our money ($55.55 per ticket plus $4 ticket charge)
and handed it over.

At 10:00:45 the tickets were printed up but all we got were 2nd section
seats.  Then we noticed that we only got $45.50 tickets.  The $55.50
tickets were gone.  We got $10 back per ticket, split up our tickets and
the other 2 guys left.

It was at this point that the Publix assistant manager came roaring out
of her office saying we should have gotten only $21 dollars back total
not the $120 for 10 tickets we had just been refunded.  She demanded we
return the money now, she would decide what we owed, and then give it
back.

Now Max is a cool customer.  He refused to return either the tickets or
the money until she had showed him exactly what was owed and he would
give back his share of the money.  So she called the police.

The police came.  He turned out to be a nice guy (who had seen the
Quadrophenia movie!) and after listening to both sides and doing the
math decided we were in fact owed the money.  I had already handed back
the money I had been refunded and it took her about 5 minutes before she
begrudingly returned my money and we were allowed to leave.

So how did everyone else do?  Max and I checked in at the nearby
Blockbuster Music which printed up the tickets even faster than Publix
and only one person got front section (not row, section) at all.  I know
ticket sales are corrupt in Atlanta but jeez!

If someone has tickets extra tickets for the first few rows, contact me
and perhaps we can work something out.

				-Brian in Atlanta