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.