Bad Food for an Olympic Ticket
I was in Beijing this last year and wanted to go see one of the swimming competitions. I went down to the main ticket office to get an Olympic ticket, but found out that I couldn't. Apparently, the tickets had all sold out. I guess I didn't think that there would be that many people attending. It wasn't like Michael Phelps was swimming that day. Either way I determined that I was not going to rest until I secured an Olympic ticket to the swimming event.
I decided my best bet was to go to the arena where the swimming contests are held and see if anyone wanted to part with their tickets. Unfortunately, everyone I asked wanted to hold onto them no matter what price I was offering.
Finally, someone said that they would trade my an Olympic ticket for swimming if I could get a ticket for beach volleyball.
I happened to know a friend of mine that had a bunch of tickets to the Olympic beach volleyball. Maybe I could make a deal with him and then make a deal with this person I met.
I went to meet with my friend and he said that he'd be happy to give me a ticket, the only thing I had to do was buy him dinner. Unfortunately, he wanted to go to a terrible restaurant that I couldn't stand. He insisted I join him and eat exactly what he had.
We ended up going to the restaurant and he ordered the worst thing on the menu, I'm pretty sure just to get back at me for something else I'd done. However, I needed the Olympic ticket so I ate it down.
Finally, someone said that they would trade my an Olympic ticket for swimming if I could get a ticket for beach volleyball.
I happened to know a friend of mine that had a bunch of tickets to the Olympic beach volleyball. Maybe I could make a deal with him and then make a deal with this person I met.
I went to meet with my friend and he said that he'd be happy to give me a ticket, the only thing I had to do was buy him dinner. Unfortunately, he wanted to go to a terrible restaurant that I couldn't stand. He insisted I join him and eat exactly what he had.
We ended up going to the restaurant and he ordered the worst thing on the menu, I'm pretty sure just to get back at me for something else I'd done. However, I needed the Olympic ticket so I ate it down.
He gave me the ticket and I went to the person I had met and we exchanged the Olympic ticket for beach volleyball for swimming.
Despite the bad food, it was worth it.