I had a question/request which is a blantant use/abuse and exploitation of our friendship, so I thought I would at least get that out of the way first so you knew what you were getting into before reading the rest of this e-mail.

It involves concert tickets……………………

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That should give you ample amount of time to stop reading and keep our friendship intact. If you are still reading, then the blatant use of our friendship request is following…..

Since the last concert I remember going to was the Moody Blues while I was still living in Lubbock, I thought I would solict some advice/help.

I wanted to take Shelley to see Matina McBride at Nokia in Grand Prairie on July 13th for our aniversary, and I wanted to get her some good tickets. Tickets go on sale this Friday, but I am going to be in New Orleans at a meeting all day staff meeting.

Do you have any advice or contacts on how to get good tickets without sitting through the ticketmaster phone bank during work hours or wait till the next day to get not so great tickets? I am not looking for free tickets (although I wouldn’t turn them down), but I don’t want to pay scalper prices for decent seats. Trying to find a way to get good face value tickets. Thought you might have some insight or assistance with this. I think Nokia is a pretty small venue, so I don’t want to procrastinate like I usually do. Even if it is just tips for dealing with ticketmaster, that would help.

As I said – blantant abouse of friendship. If you even need your sewer re-sized, just let me know and I will repay the favor. I am still trying to figure when I I will need to buy a tractor to cash in on some of Mitch’s favors, but can’t figure out one yet. And while the really cool Plasma TV’s would be really cool, unfortantlly Craig can only get the the pre proccessed chip, not the actual TV, so he is usless too. You and Arni are the only ones with jobs that can be exploited.