SCORE!

Pat's Perspective: We, or I guess I should say, JUDY, got tickets to BTS! Fortunately for me, I will get one of the tickets she purchased. Even more fortunate for me is that I was standing right next to her when she got them. It was so much fun and the wildest ride ever to watch her get them in real time.

Those of you who know us well, we live over a 1,000 miles apart, but I just happened to be in Tucson when the tickets went on sale. Judy made sure we did our homework. At her insistence, I had signed up for WEVERSE, a social media platform for BTS fans. This gave us a the ability to sign in early and participate in a Presale Event. (General Sales don't begin for 2 days!)

Did this go smoothly? Was it like clockwork? Here are both my answers: for Judy it was as easy as pie. For me, not so much. Even though we both signed in simultaneously, her number in the queue was around 9,000. Mine was over 45,000! That meant she went from the waiting room to the actual sale line much faster than I did, and she bought her tickets in about 15 minutes. When my number finally came up, there were almost no seats left and only singles.

GO, JUDY!

From Judy's Perspective: This wasn't as easy as I'd hoped. Mainly it was a complicated system and it was hard getting my group to follow the directions I sent to them. Most people delayed action till the last minute, didn't want to read my l-e-n-g-t-h-y emails, nor investigate on their own. I was left having to give tutorials to different people at different levels of computer sophistication.

((I did what I was supposed to! ~ Pat))

That being said I'm feeling pretty smug that we pulled this off. I have a couple of options for dates and locations so I can thoughtfully plan this trip. And our tickets were quite affordable; about $100 each. Fighting!