I just went through the most physically and emotionally draining day in my entire life.
BUT BUT BUT
it was completely worth it...
After 13 years I am finally seeing No Doubt again on tour.
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ALL SALES ARE FINAL
7/31/2009
No Doubt, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Number of tickets: 2,
All Ages
Ticket Delivery: Will Call
Total Service Fee: 14.80 (USD)
Tour Club Membership Fee: 15.00 (USD)
Total Delivery Cost: 0.00 (USD)
Total Ticket Cost: 209.80 (USD)Some people may be wondering, hmm, isn't the Verizon Wireless Amp in CA? Yes, yes it is. And i'm from CT.
Yes, I'm flying across the country to see my favorite band because its the 2nd to last day of the tour and it's also my 26th birthday.
Coincidence?
Hell no!
I knew I would be on the road today so I knew that I had to get wifi access sometime before 7pm (when the tickets when onsale)
So I got to a Starbucks with my friends and after trying for an hour I finally got online. Ugh It was sooo frustrating. What a bunch of shit. Starbucks sucks. They claim they are WiFi but it's a joke. You have to buy a fucking Starbucks card, then register with AT&T and then register your card and then put money on the card and then, ONLY THEN, can you finally access the internet. And its shotty at best.
So I'm online. I'm ready to go and it's 15 of 7. So we all decide to go outside with our drinks and have a smoke. I close my mac and when I get back I realize that I have to go through the entire process of logging on again.
So now it's 7:03, 7:08, etc. I start to seriously panic and I'm actually tearing up. I never cry. I call my sister in hopes that she can access my fan club info and get me the pre-sale tickets and she is like, so confused.
Finally by a miracle I get on and (thank God I bookmarked the page) I quickly pull up the pre-sale page. I scroll down to 7/31 - Irvine and it says all seats are filled. I kept refreshing and refreshing and panicking and I'm on the phone with my sister, and crying and sooooo pissed that I went out for that stupid cigarette... and refreshing and refreshing and by then Megan had to drive Jo to her AA meeting so I told them to leave me at Starbucks and finally around 7:15 I got 2 tickets for some random section. I'm like, "holy shit. people who are checking out now and have shitty credit cards or whatever are losing their tickets" Because, see, if you buy tickets online, they will hold them for a certain amount of time. Within that time you need to have a valid credit card, etc, etc. And if it cant complete the transation the time is up and the tickets go back into the pool.
I've gotten great seats for years by doing this. There is also a way to get front row seats on the day of the show but that secret is for another post.
Anyways, I start frantically refreshing the page again. Over and over and finally. FINALLY FINALLY I got 2 tickets for the pit.
PIT!!!
I gasped so loud the man next to me at starbucks asked me if I was okay. And I don't remember what I said but I remember snapping back and looking through my bag for my debit card.
I have never filled out an online form so quickly in my entire life. I was typing crazy and mispelled my names and capped it all because I was scared I was going to lose the fucking pit seats... but I didn't.
I finally got to the page and it said I was in.
For five minutes I just sat there. I saved the page on my desktop in case something happened and I just stared in disbelief.
I went from this emotional rollercoaster to finally being okay to just chill.
I got my tickets. I got pit. I got them for the same day as my birthday and I was shocked.
I still am.
Thank God