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I’m not sure whether to blame Ticketmaster or my office equipment, but somewhere during the printing process my tickets to see Flight of the Conchords Friday night were slaughtered. And, of course, neither Tiffany nor I noticed until we were already inside the Schottenstein Center.

Ticketmaster has a ticket-delivery system they call “TicketFast.” Instead of them mailing you the physical tickets or having you pick up the tickets at will call, you may download the tickets in a PDF file and print them out at home. The process saves time for both Ticketmaster and the consumer and Ticketmaster gets the added benefit of charging an extra $2 for the service. I think Ticketmaster ended up making more than $20 on my two tickets, but that’s another blog entry altogether.

I didn’t check the ticket file I downloaded from Ticketmaster for accuracy, which was my own mistake. I’ve used TicketFast a number of times in the past, and have never had a problem. After inspecting the PDF file this morning when I returned to work, I confirmed the tickets in the file were accurate. Two tickets for section 122:

When we arrived to the show, we were expecting to have these seats, which would have been pretty decent:

Upon entering the Schott and taking a look at the printed tickets, I was first confused about our section. It said we were in section 233:

Upon further inspection, I noticed that the tickets had us assigned in two different rows, apart from each other. And further, I noticed that the second ticket was destroyed entirely:

I honestly don’t know how we even got in using that second ticket. The box around the bar code, which they use to confirm your ticket, was jumbled as well:

In the end, we were forced to sit here:

Notice section 233 doesn’t actually exist.

Despite the initial disappointment, we had a good time. Our section was, for the most part, completely empty so we had space to spread out and relax.

Bret and Jemaine of Flight of the Conchords were really funny in person. I think they need to stick to smaller venues, however, because it’s just two guys sitting on stage playing guitars or “keytars (keyboard guitars).” If they had robots from the distant future flying around stage, that would be one thing. I think a venue like the “LC” would have been way more fitting.