Too many tickets, and too few
If the letters to the editor the working their way through our pipeline here are any indication, people are especially worked up right now about tickets -- the ones the ones the city gives for parking violations and the ones the coliseum sold for a Hannah Montana concert.
According to the early returns, there is little sympathy among our readers for Kevin Morse, the attorney is fighting the city's attempts to recover the more than $2,300 he owes for unpaid parking tickets.
Read their lips, the letter writers are saying: Either feed the meter, as everyone else does, or pay up.
As for Hannah Montana, her November concert sold out in what seemed like five seconds, angering parents who believe they've been squeezed out by scalpers.
I don't know much about Hannah Montana, the preteen flavor of the month. But she appears to have provoked longer lines than the iphone.
Reminds me of the hue and cry that followed a negative review by local critic Parke Puterbaugh (what does he know, having merely worked for Rolling Stone?) of N-Sync.
You'd have thought Sinead O'Connor had done her pope thing again.
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Any parent who is upset that Hannah Montana sold out is absolutely bonkers. This was the greatest gift to Greensboro parents since the Science Center. As I explained to my daughter, I really wanted to take her to see HM, but darnit, the tickets are gone. Better luck next time, kid.
And if you review boy bands (from the Beatles to N'Sync), you're doubtlessly going to irritate the mindless hordes who scream for them.
Posted on September 21, 2007 10:15 AM
Unlike some (apparently)...
I respect parents for attempting to get tix for their kids. It is no diff than the circus or Disney on Ice. To the kids this was huge and no different than The Stones, Jimmy Buffet or whatever your fav is to us.
My teen and her friends wanted to see the Jonas Bros but were closed out as well. Disappointed but certainly not upset (that tends to happen when it is your own moola).
I have friends who were very upset that scapler-like entities scooped up a bunch of tix. It is not a belief Allen but a fact. Just go to gotickets.com or some such or ebay and take a gander. Pages and pages of HM Gso tix with BIG NUMBERS. I believe you do those good parents a disservice by pooh poohing their concerns. Some kids and parents are truly disappointed. I expected more compassion from you, Allen. See, now I am disappointed.
Before Noon there were tix on the various services for sale from hundreds to thousands of dollars (EACH!). I am not sure what the CVM can do but it still sucks for local kids.
Posted on September 21, 2007 3:33 PM