10:08pm October 13, 2003 ~ world series tickets
Bernie called this morning and told me the Yankees were putting their World Series tickets on sale at 12:30pm. We got ready shortly before 12:30 and starting reloading the appropriate Ticketbastard page until the tickets were available. We decided to try exclusively for Game 7 tickets. I got a request in for four best available tickets via each of two different browsers. Bernie did the same. Three of our requests ending up erroring out, but one of mine kept refreshing on the "searching" page:
Your estimated wait time is less than 6 minutes
Okay, not too bad. But then:
Your estimated wait time is more than 15 minutes
Crap. But then:
Your estimated wait time is less than 8 minutes
Woo-hoo! But then:
Your estimated wait time is more than 15 minutes
D'oh. Anyway, this went on for a while, until finally I got this message after about 7 minutes (turns out the original estimate was pretty close):
Your estimated wait time is less than 1 minute
And then four tickets showed up! I couldn't believe it! I somehow managed to enter about five pages worth of information and completed the order. It's hard to type accurately when you're shaking. Then I called Bernie and celebrated.
Amazingly enough, about fifteen minutes later, Bernie's wife also managed to get two tickets for the same game. So now we have six tickets for GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES!
But I'm still rooting for the Red Sox.
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