Too high. The man is going to be in the stadium, not at work, just enjoying a baseball game, possibly a beer, and he's complaining because he's going to be too far from the grass?
So I did the only natural thing. In a loud enough voice for the entire store to hear me, I said, "Sir, if those tickets are too high for you, I'm happy to buy them."
Everyone laughed. The guys behind me in the ticket line laughed, the other guy buying tickets laughed, even the woman waiting on the complainer laughed. The complainer, however, did not laugh. I'm not even sure he heard me. He was too engrossed in a meaningless dance of trying to get the perfect seats in exchange for a pair of season tickets for the second game of the season.
"I have to go on a business trip," he said. "I don't care when I go, just see what you can find for me."
So the poor clerk pulled up date after date and ticket pair after ticket pair. None were good enough for this guy. Some were too high—that height thing is a big problem, apparently—some were too far out the third or first base lines, some weren't in a section pleasing to him for whatever reason. The rest of us in line cringed with every "No, that won't work because...." Even the store manager was rolling his eyes.
Which leads me to this. I don't know what the complainer does for a living or what his baseball background is like or what his problem is, but he's a typical Washington Type A jerk. Sir. You bought season tickets. We all understand that you have a business trip. But pick a date, pick some seats and be done with it. The world does not revolve around you. Just because you happened to trade in for a pair of third-row seats last year does not mean it's going to happen today.
Maybe I'm being a petty girl, but you have to understand my position. I was standing in line to buy baseball tickets. To most people, that might be a small thing, but for me, it's monumental. It's the first time this season that I got to do it, and it means we're almost to that magical time of year where my afternoon question isn't whether a game is on, it's "What game are we going to?"
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