Last year, well into the baseball season, I got it in my head that I’d like to see a Cubs vs Sox game at Wrigley Field because I haven’t been to a Cubs game in so long and it would be cool to see them play the Sox. Of course, the games were all sold out by then. So I made a note to buy tickets this year right away. So we spent all day online trying to get tickets. Screw that virtual waiting room – it blows. I watched as my tickets went bye-bye. I mean, it gave me a chance to choose tickets and when I did, it kept saying “Due to the high volume of transactions, your request has timed out. Try again” or something to that nature. I tried many times, and kept getting the error. Then it kicked me out and back into the waiting room. Grrrr!<\/p>\n
So all the Cubs vs Sox games are sold out and I have nothing to show for it. Oh wait, not nothing – I did finally get tickets twenty minutes ago, for a game I wasn’t all excited about (they are playing Colorado) … but all the games I wanted to see were either sold out, or are when we’re probably going to be in Maine, so I grabbed whatever I could get my hands on since I didn’t expect it to be this hard to get tickets to begin with. I had to rule out all games in July or August which made it more difficult, but necessary, since that’s when The Cure is due to be touring the U.S. and I can’t miss them!<\/p>\n
So anyway … the Cubs are just as bad as Ticketbastard – our $40 (for two) tickets ended up costing $52.75 due to “convenience” charges and a $2.75 fee to mail us the tickets (Will Call cost $2.75 as well). This is why I rarely buy tickets to any event – it’s highway robbery. And someone explain to me again why these extra fees are labeled convenience charges to begin with? More like inconvenience charges.<\/p>\n
Thank god it’s the weekend. We’ve got fun things planned and the weather is supposed to be nice. So TGIF!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last year, well into the baseball season, I got it in my head that I’d like to see a Cubs vs Sox game at Wrigley Field because I haven’t been to a Cubs game in so long and it would be cool to see them play the Sox. Of course, the games were all sold out by then. So I made a note to buy tickets this year right away. So we spent all day online trying to get tickets. Screw that virtual waiting room – it blows. I watched as my tickets went bye-bye. I mean, it gave me a chance to choose tickets and when I did, it kept saying “Due to the high volume of transactions, your request has timed out. Try again” or something to that nature. I tried many times, and kept getting the error. Then it kicked me out and back into the waiting Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}