I would rather have a real seat than a "flotation device".
I saw the fourth to last Price is Right w/ Bob Barker. This one girl, the first in line, had a real ticket (as opposed to a stand-by, which my mother and I had) and had been there since 6:00 in the morning three days prior. We got there 4:30 in the morning, day of, with stand-by tickets and still got in. We really shouldn't have. I feel like she wasted a tiny bit of her life that she'll never have back. But hey! she got called down and all the way to the final round.
Then the next day, we went to NBC studios to see Jay Leno, which is no big deal, it hardly compares to one of the final episodes of THE show everybody watched when they were home sick from school. We went about 8:40 in the morning to get a ticket. All they had left were stand-bys, which was fine, that's what we got last time. In order to spare the cost of four cab rides, we stayed, as before, right there in the vicinity of NBC. This time, though, we went and sat down in the front where there were already some people sitting. There was this one woman there who goes to every Tonight Show (has been for the past two years) and keeps a blog of what happens; real odd character. She comes up to us and talks to us, learns we have stand-by tickets, this and that, whatever, walks away. A few seconds later she comes back, hands us two real tickets, and says, "There you go."
!!!!! What!?!?!? Just like that???!? How???
She pointed to a family sitting way down there closer to the entrance and says, "They had extra tickets."
Now, I've got to tell you, there were some CRAZY people there, but thankfully we sat beside the nicest people there. A little while later, the woman who goes to every show came back down and talked to us, and just out of curiosity asked to see what stand-by number we were. We were something like lowest level stand-bys and there was no way we would've gotten in. On top of that, we were in the first thirty of the people with real tickets and those people are let in first before everybody as a thank-you for coming so early and waiting. We shouldn't have even gotten in, and yet we were the first to.
The trip was incredibly exhausting and I hate plane rides and Los Angeles happen to be going through a freak cold spell, making those early mornings frigid and those afternoon winds uncomfortably brisk, but after a while I'll forget the bad and remember that I got to see Bob Barker and George Clooney and hear Rihanna sing a song I've become quite fond of. I have my name tag that I got at the Price is Right, an NBC jacket I got because of the frigid Los Angeles weather (What? Who would have ever thought???) and a cue card from the Tonight Show b/c my mother's just the kind of person who asks.
Then the next day, we went to NBC studios to see Jay Leno, which is no big deal, it hardly compares to one of the final episodes of THE show everybody watched when they were home sick from school. We went about 8:40 in the morning to get a ticket. All they had left were stand-bys, which was fine, that's what we got last time. In order to spare the cost of four cab rides, we stayed, as before, right there in the vicinity of NBC. This time, though, we went and sat down in the front where there were already some people sitting. There was this one woman there who goes to every Tonight Show (has been for the past two years) and keeps a blog of what happens; real odd character. She comes up to us and talks to us, learns we have stand-by tickets, this and that, whatever, walks away. A few seconds later she comes back, hands us two real tickets, and says, "There you go."
!!!!! What!?!?!? Just like that???!? How???
She pointed to a family sitting way down there closer to the entrance and says, "They had extra tickets."
Now, I've got to tell you, there were some CRAZY people there, but thankfully we sat beside the nicest people there. A little while later, the woman who goes to every show came back down and talked to us, and just out of curiosity asked to see what stand-by number we were. We were something like lowest level stand-bys and there was no way we would've gotten in. On top of that, we were in the first thirty of the people with real tickets and those people are let in first before everybody as a thank-you for coming so early and waiting. We shouldn't have even gotten in, and yet we were the first to.
The trip was incredibly exhausting and I hate plane rides and Los Angeles happen to be going through a freak cold spell, making those early mornings frigid and those afternoon winds uncomfortably brisk, but after a while I'll forget the bad and remember that I got to see Bob Barker and George Clooney and hear Rihanna sing a song I've become quite fond of. I have my name tag that I got at the Price is Right, an NBC jacket I got because of the frigid Los Angeles weather (What? Who would have ever thought???) and a cue card from the Tonight Show b/c my mother's just the kind of person who asks.