i went to the capitals hockey game tonight (and i’m still recovering from my two beers, so please excuse any typos). late last week i was thinking of going to the game this past sunday since mom and dad were going to be out of town visiting with feisty_fitz and her fiancé and his family, so i started looking online for a ticket. when i started to look, i found a ticket to tonight’s game on stubhub for $5. yes, $5. the only shipping option was via fedex, so altogether it was something like $21 for the ticket shipped, but even still that’s half the cost of the ticket normally. i figured i didn’t have anything to lose (stubhub guarantees the tickets are valid, and if for any reason it’s not valid or if it doesn’t arrive in time they set you up with tickets as good if not better than the seat you ordered or your money back). so, i ordered the ticket, and it was verified by the seller on saturday.

i got an email from stubhub on tuesday saying how they noticed the seller hadn’t yet shipped my ticket, but don’t worry since they’ll take care of me if it doesn’t arrive in time, and then late tuesday night i saw that it had shipped for delivery on wednesday. went to the game tonight after work, and yup, the ticket worked no problem. not bad! plsus, it was great because not only did the caps win 6-3, but there was a fight, and alexander semin got a hat trick. plus, since the caps scored 5+ goals during the game, i can take my ticket stub to a glory days grill in the next week to get 6 free wings, yesss. so, good game all around.

this afternoon at work i was talking to my coworkers about going to the the game, and when one of them heard how much the ticket cost me he exclaimed “you can’t even go to the movies anymore for $5!”, which made it even better.

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