A Letter to the Guy Who I am Still Pissed at, 4 days later
Dear Red Sox $100 Ticket Owner,
You’re a douche-bag.
I didn’t need to go to the game Friday night. I could have walked home and watched it in 53in HDTV; I live 2 blocks away. I could have gone to the bar. There are a lot of things I could have done, so I sure as hell didn’t need your ticket. But I did want to get in. Who wouldn’t…Friday night, Beckett, perfect weather… When you first came up to us, you looked like you were going to give away your extra ticket. “Hey any of you guys need an extra?” I said sure. Then you pull the “ok, face value” line. I was still game until I looked and saw that it was a $100 ticket. I politely said no thank you, and that all I was looking to spend was $30. You said $80, again, I said $30, again, I didn’t need to go to the game. It was almost the 2nd inning at this point, you were late, you had two young kids itching to get into the park…I figured you’d be cool with $30 bucks in your pocket versus nothing. I wasn’t even going to sit with you. Instead, you son-of-a-bitch, you turn to your kids (who neither could have been older than 12) and say, “what do you think kids, $30 or an empty seat?” The kids, for some reason joyously scream “empty seat dad!” Fucking devil children! So instead of a free $30, you turn to me and say “sorry guy,” and walk into the park with an unused ticket, leaving me standing outside like an asshole. But we all know who the asshole is, don’t we?
I hope you had a good time at the game though; you and your two evil little children who are certainly on track to grow up to be as big, if not bigger assholes than their father. God would have smiled if a foul ball hit you in the face that night. But, I hope to see you at a game sometime in the future. I’ll buy you a beer and we can talk about how much of a douche move that was. Until then, I hope every day you wake up to is a shitty one.
All the best,
MD
PS: A nicer person than you (and we all know that doesn’t take much) ended up coming along about 5 minutes later and offered me a face value $27 seat. So in the end I saved $3 and saw a great game. Good things to good people I guess, so FU.
Stumble it!