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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Aug 27 2009, 08:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I will tell you guys a crazy story if it all turns out well regarding GaterDuc. Don't want to mention it yet incase it blows up in my face and will be too embarrassed to tell it.
Really this thread doesn’t do justice to all the crazy fantastic lucky fun .... that happened Indy weekend. Anyway, I told you guys I would tell you a good story.
Ok, this story is a bit long, but I think you will discover that it says something about this forum and the people who are its members.
Well before we went to Indy, CK and I were in charge of getting the tickets. It was a bit difficult to get 4 premium seats together as most people were selling 2s only. (Let me back up, CK’s system is to wait until last minute to buy tickets from poor souls who can’t make the trip and are desperate to sell them last minute to recoup their investment.) So it’s about a few days before Indy and no tickets yet. I start to get worried and call CK repeatedly to get his .... moving on some tickets. Funny thing is every time I called he seemed un-phased.
Well about 5 days before Indy weekend I tell him if he doesn’t get tickets by tomorrow then I will pull the trigger on some .... I found (considering that if you buy on eBay the seller still needs some time to mail them overnight). He finally gave in and I get the green light. So I log on to eBay and I’m about to click on the ‘by it now’ when in that split second (no ........, it was like a movie) CK texts me: “Do NOT buy anything yet, I’m working on a deal!” Holy ...., I pull back the trigger but still a little skeptical. Next text I get (about an hour later) was “Call this .... # xxxx, she is an owner of a suite, cool as hell, work out the details with here”. So I call her up, we work out a deal and I tell here I want 4 VIP tickets. Cool, and she tells me, I have more seats for your friends too.
Anyway, I get a PM from GatorDuc that he is coming to Indy and is interested in some VIP seats. (At this point I have never actually spoken with the dude.) So I call him up as we had exchanged cell numbers. I tell him the deal and he’s like hell yeah get me some tickets. So I call back the suite owner and tell here we need three more.
Here is where the story gets good. I was gonna fly in late and the .... didn’t want to meet at midnight so she was going to meet me in the morning, Gator was gonna be there early Friday to get his tickets. So I tell Gator, hey, I’m gonna fly in late and I don’t want to wait for the morning to get my tickets (because I was still skeptical and didn’t quite believe it all, as I grew up in a neighborhood where scams were the norm not the exception, many time hustled by mua). So I ask him, “can you get them for me at the same time you get yours?” He says, “sure, I’ll give her the money and get them for you!” (Keep in mind I have never met Gator and he has never met me, we had only spoke on the phone once!) So this dude thought I meant when I said ‘could you get them for me’, that I meant ‘pay’ for them for me. Well I placed an equal confidence in him (unbeknownst to him at the moment); since when I said ‘could you get them for me’, I had already ‘paid’ for them! So he would be holding 4 VIP tickets paid and clear, and I have never met him either! So he was willing to pay close to a grand for my tickets and I was willing to let him hold my tickets valued a t close to a grand while I flew in. How many of you would have done that?
I know my momma would not have approved of me putting such trust in somebody I had never met and only spoke to once on the phone. For a moment I thought, holy .... I better download this Gator’s pic he posted of himself and his .... and keep it incase this .... blows up in my face. I’m thinking I may have to walk around Florida with this dude’s picture in my hand trying to get back my money.
Well as you can see, it all worked out!
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Nicky Hayden--making life long friends out of complete strangers the world over!
Really this thread doesn’t do justice to all the crazy fantastic lucky fun .... that happened Indy weekend. Anyway, I told you guys I would tell you a good story.
Ok, this story is a bit long, but I think you will discover that it says something about this forum and the people who are its members.
Well before we went to Indy, CK and I were in charge of getting the tickets. It was a bit difficult to get 4 premium seats together as most people were selling 2s only. (Let me back up, CK’s system is to wait until last minute to buy tickets from poor souls who can’t make the trip and are desperate to sell them last minute to recoup their investment.) So it’s about a few days before Indy and no tickets yet. I start to get worried and call CK repeatedly to get his .... moving on some tickets. Funny thing is every time I called he seemed un-phased.
Well about 5 days before Indy weekend I tell him if he doesn’t get tickets by tomorrow then I will pull the trigger on some .... I found (considering that if you buy on eBay the seller still needs some time to mail them overnight). He finally gave in and I get the green light. So I log on to eBay and I’m about to click on the ‘by it now’ when in that split second (no ........, it was like a movie) CK texts me: “Do NOT buy anything yet, I’m working on a deal!” Holy ...., I pull back the trigger but still a little skeptical. Next text I get (about an hour later) was “Call this .... # xxxx, she is an owner of a suite, cool as hell, work out the details with here”. So I call her up, we work out a deal and I tell here I want 4 VIP tickets. Cool, and she tells me, I have more seats for your friends too.
Anyway, I get a PM from GatorDuc that he is coming to Indy and is interested in some VIP seats. (At this point I have never actually spoken with the dude.) So I call him up as we had exchanged cell numbers. I tell him the deal and he’s like hell yeah get me some tickets. So I call back the suite owner and tell here we need three more.
Here is where the story gets good. I was gonna fly in late and the .... didn’t want to meet at midnight so she was going to meet me in the morning, Gator was gonna be there early Friday to get his tickets. So I tell Gator, hey, I’m gonna fly in late and I don’t want to wait for the morning to get my tickets (because I was still skeptical and didn’t quite believe it all, as I grew up in a neighborhood where scams were the norm not the exception, many time hustled by mua). So I ask him, “can you get them for me at the same time you get yours?” He says, “sure, I’ll give her the money and get them for you!” (Keep in mind I have never met Gator and he has never met me, we had only spoke on the phone once!) So this dude thought I meant when I said ‘could you get them for me’, that I meant ‘pay’ for them for me. Well I placed an equal confidence in him (unbeknownst to him at the moment); since when I said ‘could you get them for me’, I had already ‘paid’ for them! So he would be holding 4 VIP tickets paid and clear, and I have never met him either! So he was willing to pay close to a grand for my tickets and I was willing to let him hold my tickets valued a t close to a grand while I flew in. How many of you would have done that?
I know my momma would not have approved of me putting such trust in somebody I had never met and only spoke to once on the phone. For a moment I thought, holy .... I better download this Gator’s pic he posted of himself and his .... and keep it incase this .... blows up in my face. I’m thinking I may have to walk around Florida with this dude’s picture in my hand trying to get back my money.
Well as you can see, it all worked out!
8086:Jum___Gator.JPG]
Nicky Hayden--making life long friends out of complete strangers the world over!
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