Complete freak out

I was about to go to the Phillies game last night and as I always do, I checked to see which of my tickets I had sold on Stubhub, because those tickets won't work. I saw that I'd sold seats 15 and 16 so I went to my file to get 13 and 14 and saw that those were the only 2 tickets there. 15 and 16 were gone. I suddenly thought, "Holy S--t!" I had accidentally sold two of the tickets that I'd given to the school on Stubhub. I had given them two pairs, one for 5/3 and one for 5/5, one for a senior class silent auction and the other for an athletic department raffle. I had no idea which was which and did not know who had won either the raffle or the auction. 

I completely freaked out. This meant that these people would show up and their tickets would not work. And I didn't even know who they were but knew I'd find out eventually and it wouldn't be pretty. The only thing I could think to do was run down to the ballpark and try to find two unidentified people wandering among the 45,000 showing up for the game.

So I rushed out the door (it was about 6:15 at this point with a 7:05 game time) and flew down to the ballpark (20 minutes!), went to the third base ticket window and then the first base window (as in all the way on the other side of the park) looking for a couple of pissed-off people. Then I asked one of the attendants if there had been anyone show up and have their tickets not work. He said that if that happened they'd be sent to the Stubhub booth which was back at the 3rd base window.

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I ran back over there and the Stubhub people said that yes, someone who had bought tickets at a silent auction had been there and they'd sent them over to the season ticket office where they were going to try to contact me. This office was next to the first base ticket window back on the other side of the park. 

So over there I run and I go in the office and there's nobody there except Phillies employees. I say, "Oh no, I'm too late" so they ask me what I mean and when I explain a woman behind the counter said, "You're not too late. They're standing at my ticket window, number 21." So I go out to window 21 and there are my school's principal and her husband, shocked as all hell to see me there. It was just game time. So after a short explanation they took the two valid tickets and in they went. 

I was able to get a ticket for myself, I drank 2 beers as quickly as I could to calm myself, and then sat and enjoyed the game.