ready for April

I have BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN tickets.

I have BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN tickets.

April 17, 2012

Quicken Loans Arena

Cleveland, Ohio

I have BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN tickets.

I'm a little excited.


This will be the my 8th Bruce Springsteen concert...I love the Boss, but I'm not one of those crazy-follow-him-anywhere fans.  I just love Bruce.
In order to buy concert tickets today you need two things...a credit card & the internet.  At 10:00 I clicked BUY TICKETS.  and I bought tickets.  Yep, no more than 5 minutes of my life.
The simplicity of this process makes me remember how much of a challenge it was to buy concert tickets before the internet.
There were two options:
1.  Go to local Ticketmaster outlet ~ where you needed to get their early for those 'once in a lifetime' shows, and WAIT.  Back in college a group of us camped out to get good seats for Genesis.  I think we got to the Sears at Belden Village Mall around midnight.  We waited in line (believe it or not, we were NOT the first ones in line) until Ticketmaster opened at 10:00 the next morning.  I'm sure we had fun...and we thought it was totally worth it because we got floor seats. Turns out floor seats are so hot...you really can't see over the people in front of you...and they yell at you if you stand on the chairs.
2.  Try your luck ordering tickets from Ticketmaster over the phone. Dial, busy, dial, busy, dial, busy.  (There was a time when phones didn't have a redial button.) I remember calling over and over and being so in the habit of hanging up being afraid I might just hang up when I got an actual ring. 
Oh, the drama of buying tickets before the internet made all of our lives so much simpler.
I feel like the old woman I am recalling all of this.  I did just pay $100 to see a 62 year old man sing.  I'm not going to think about that any more.