I’m going to see Blue Man Group later this month, and when I reached into my stack of tickets this morning to get my McCartney tickets, one of the Blue Man tickets slipped away. I didn’t watch it slip; all I know is I had two tickets, I picked up something underneath them, then I had one ticket.
Then I went to brunch because I was hungry and tickets don’t get more lost after five minutes of looking. Plus I was pretty sure it had slid under the treadmill to the right of the desk.
When I began the hunt in earnest later, I didn’t go right for the treadmill; instead I methodically went through that pile of pillows on the chair and lay on the floor with a flashlight. I was going to start scooting the treadmill when my subconscious said “Look on the other side of the desk.”
I looked.
“Oh, I bet it’s in the guitar,” I thought, and I peered inside my blue guitar. I shook it. No ticket. I gave up on that idea and headed for the treadmill.
“Really it’s in the guitar” said my subconscious. I turned around and picked up the guitar again. No ticket.
“NO LOOK IT’S IN THE GUITAR” my subconscious yelled. I turned for the guitars again.
“No, I looked there. I just don’t want to move the treadmill. Well, I guess it could be in the acoustic on the left. It can’t in the electric or the bass, there’s no hole.” I went to pick up the guitar on the left and I actually thought, “I never noticed I had that bar code sticker on the back of my bass. I guess I should play that more.”
“IT’S IN THE GUITAR” my subconscious screamed. It was only then I noticed that the strings of my bass had somehow moved to the “back” of the bass where that messy bar code is and SON of a BITCH. There it is.
There it was. Stupid subconscious doesn’t know the difference between a bass guitar and a guitar; that would have helped. I’d even taken the time to look at the back of the remaining to ticket to be sure I wasn’t making assumptions about what I was looking for.
Still, right there under my nose all along.
Remember the episodes of Arrested Development when Tobias stalks his wife while he’s an understudy for the Blue Man Group? That’s just what it was like.
6 responses to “Blue Man Group Tickets”
Without the blue fingerprints all over the walls.
I’ve seen the Blue Man Group! On my first trip to NYC – it was great. There is toilet paper involved, you know (no need to take your own). Fun, but must be hell for neat-freaks.
BMG is fiercely anti-union and underpays its employees. Just saying.
A friend of mine is a BMG musician. I don’t know what he’s paid, but I know he loves what he does and has seen the world doing it.
Big Dot – Soemone else will have to bring the tp. I can’t even bring myself to spell it out.
Becs – Perfect, because I’m going with Caroline, the conservative Friend.
Caroline – Now, how is it I didn’t know you knew a Blue Man? Is he playing on the 30th?
He’s not a Blue Man. He’s a musician in the band. I have no idea how you didn’t know that, because he’s been doing that longer than I’ve known you.
Caroline – Perhaps you are so cool you didn’t even think to mention it.