On 24/10/2012 17:00, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 15:18:11 on Wed, 24 Oct
2012, Mizter T remarked:

So, like the Olympics, no real chance to buy one.

What a surprise, a negative comment from Roland Perry.

I was right royally screwed by the Olympics ticket ballot, and I'm sure
I wasn't he only one.

Did you get up at six in the morning along with half of the rest of the
country when further tickets went on sale to those who weren;t
successful in the initial ballot? Did you not take advantage of any of
the further ticket sale releases, of which there were several?

Also, IIRC, you didn't consider any of the 75% of tickets that were to
events outside the Olympic Park to be proper Olympics tickets, unlike
all the folk who went along and enjoyed these events.

And did you consider tickets to the Paralympics instead, which was also
a fantastic spectacle?

A friend of mine also decided he had a chip on his shoulder when he
didn't get any tickets in the initial ballot, and despite the fact I
flagged up the subsequent sales to him he remained in a grump and didn't
chase any of them up - when the Games got under way, he was rather
gutted that he'd adopted such an intransigent attitude beforehand.

Anyhow, a ballot is a ballot - not everyone gets what they want, that's
the whole point, but grown ups don't then throw their toys out of the
pram and adopt a status of victimhood.

(And yes, part of that tone of irritation is an echo of that which I
shared with my aforementioned friend.)