Bittersweet pill

[RevSmoke]

Originally Posted by md4958

Those last few lines really are the truth arent they?

I didnt see your post as complaining Todd. I was just offering a suggestion about helping you defer the cost. I understand that youre the type of person that feels bad about marking up a game ticket, but if you look at it as "Im helping ensure I can pass these tickets to my children" then perhaps it will help the guilt.

I agree that watching a game from the comfort of your living room is nice. However, there is something special about watching a game in the those stands. I imagine sitting in the same seats your grandfather sat in much make it that much more special.

Oooops, hope I didn't give the impression that these were grandpas seats? Those seats went to step-grandchildren. The tickets we have are the tickets my dad got after grandpa had gotten his.

Don't worry, the tickets won't get sold, at least not if I can help it. Gotta grouse about something, right? I figure grousing about the price of tickets is a pretty small thing.

As for selling tickets for more... As I sell to people I trust (for the reason stated earlier), usually good friends, that makes marking up tickets even harder.

It hasn't gotten to be a hardship, but parting with money is never easy. When I paid the bill, I then had to go to two different cigar sites and empy "dream carts" that are not going to happen now or any time in the next few months. Probably not a bad thing anyway.

As for the truisms in those few lines, it is too true. How about some others.

Amazing how the guys can get together every day for a week after the big game, and talk for hours about it, going over individual plays and players in great detail - but won't remember much of anything about the sermon, even over lunch on Sunday afternoon.
Amazing how the guys get together at the local hang-out over coffee every morning, and in the course of the conversation talk about Fred's latest operation, but none of them will say, "Hey, maybe we ought to have a prayer for Fred's healing," much less say the prayer.

Peace of the Lord be with you.