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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 11:43 PM
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Why must people act "that way" all the time?
This is the particular "way" I'm talking about...

Last March, this guy I know told me he was buying a bunch of tickets to the U2 concerts here in Toronto this fall, and offered to buy me *one* ticket using his special ticketmaster account. The shows sold out in seven minutes, but he managed to get the maximum 2 tix for each show. We agreed that I'd get the ticket and he'd get his money this fall when I was back in town for the new school year.

Fast forward to tonight... I've been calling him since yesterday, and he's come up with about a half dozen crappy plans for us to meet so he can give me the ticket. Then, tonight, he tells me he might meet me in front of my subway stop since it's on his way home. "The first good idea I've heard all day", I think. He manages to qualify that by saying that if he doesn't call me by 11:30 then he'll have to get it to me tomorrow. He doesn't call. I finally call him at midnight, he answers all pissed off like I'm bothering him. "What time works for you?" I ask...

Now I have to find him in line at before the U2 concert tomorrow and buy it there. That means I have to get to the ACC a whole hour and a half before the Red Sox game at the Skydome I'm attending (hey, $9 for the Sox is awesome, Go Sox!!!).

So, this doofus bought tickets to see U2 four times in a week in Toronto, as well as in NYC and San Diego(???). He won't sell me the other ticket to that night so I can take my poor friend who lists "Seeing U2 in concert" among the top 3 things she wants to do before she dies. Nope, he's gotta see 'em 4 times in ONE WEEK!!! Then he gets on this attitude like I'm bothering him about getting a ticket I need by Friday afternoon and that he promised me months ago. I'm just glad I didn't pay him in April.

Would it be wrong of me to tell him off after I get the ticket in my hand?
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