Daily Insanity Dec 17, 2022

Daily Insanity December 17, 2022

The lessons keep coming …

I bought 7 front row, end zone seats for $900, that I thought I could resell for bank to the SRS Distribution Bowl 2022, Dec 17… I was able to sell four of them for $425, but had three left… I wasn’t even sure I was going to go to the game!

The game started at 11:30 AM and I decided at 10 AM, after sleeping in from being exhausted, that I was going… I got ready and headed to the stadium with three tickets left …

I got a text from a friend on the way down there, I invited her to the game, but she declined…

Side note: relevant to this story… I also have Raiders season tickets … I am a huge Raiders fan, but I also like to sell the tickets to make back my money so I can go to the games for free… I have felt pressured by several people/friends who are always trying to suggest who I can give or sell the tickets to… They’re my tickets, I will invite who I want to invite, or I want to sell them online for the highest and best money… I am not going to get money from some of my friends and not from others… If I invite someone to a game, they come as my guest… Otherwise, I’m selling the tickets to strangers for market price… if I invite you it’s because I want you there… I’m not inviting anyone I don’t want to spend time & money on, in a sports fanatic, friendly environment … PERIOD! That’s what I’ve decided is best for me … my money, my tickets, my way!

So that is a background story that, I feel, gives more meaning to the present story because it ties in my feelings about people trying to decide what happens to my tickets …

OK, back to our story …

Outside the stadium, I ran into somebody who was looking for a ticket … he wanted to pay $20. I counter offered $40 … the tickets cost $125 each … he said he would stick to the $20 so I turned him down … I didn’t want to sit next to someone I was going to have a resentment against for lowballing an already significantly reduced ticket … besides, I would rather have the extra room for that amount money …

The second scalper came at me and asked me how many I had. I said two … he said let me see them on your phone … I start thinking ‘why the fuck do you need to see it on my phone, don’t you even want to know where they are before you tell me how much your gonna pay for them?’ so I asked him that very question … OK darling, he started reaching towards me to direct me off to the side… I said don’t touch me … he got upset and said “I don’t want your tickets” … I said “I don’t wanna sell them to you “ … I don’t need some strange ass man trying to use his ‘darling touch powers’ to get my tickets… This is a business transaction … I’m not your fucking darling … and keep your hands off me …

I have learned people use the power of touch to control a situation/you, it’s a power move … so, when I sense the power move coming, I decline the touch … it does tend to piss them off if their intentions are not pure … so it doesn’t bother me when they’re pissed … someone who is innocently touching you, has no problem not touching you when you ask them not to… That has been my experience …

It’s good to be in charge of my own damn tickets, and who gets to touch my body, for that matter … There was a time I would’ve sold them the tickets just so they’d like me … Uff! Thank God those days are over!

I get to my 3 remaining seats and 2 broads are in my seats! The better seats left of the three! (one seat was further down the row than the other two)

I asked if they would like to buy the seats from me… They were actually in the wrong seats, so they did move … here again, I almost let them have the seats just to avoid the confrontation and to ‘be nice’ … but I’m glad I made them change seats because not only were they the best seats left, but no one else showed up around me either, so I had tons of extra room and besides, I did pay $475 fucking dollars for them, so I want to sit in them!!

It was worth the $475 just to learn the lesson of being assertive and doing what I want with my own money and tickets and not letting somebody else’s, or my own stuff get in my way …

It reminds me of the movie Romancing the Stone, where in the first scene, Joan Wilder is walking down the streets of New York, and all of the vendors/people are trying to get her attention because they want something from her … She’s apologizing to them and getting lost in their requests… At the end of the movie, she just confidently walks by them, ignoring them, and going about her life … That is the transformation I’ve experienced … being subject to other people’s, even stranger’s, requests, just so as not to ruffle feathers … nowadays, I don’t mind ruffling a few fucking feathers! I’ve come a long way from being the people pleaser I once was… It’s not all about what I want all of the time, but I do get to get what I want some of the time and that didn’t used to be the case either … grateful for the growth… My dad always said ‘Education is expensive’ … He is correct! I got my $475 worth today … ;-)