Sunday, August 21, 2011

Plaaaaayyyy Ball!!!!!

I've got a backlog of stuff that occurred while we were at the NICU, so here's a fun story. One Saturday, some generous person donated Padre tickets to the RMH. We took the opportunity of free tickets to get out and go see a baseball game. It was a much needed break, and gave us a chance to spend some time with our other two kids on a family expedition. Even though Rady Children's hospital is only 12 minutes from Petco Park by car, we opted to take public transit down to the game just so the kids could ride the trolley. What great parents we are, right?

Now, I'd never ridden the San Diego trolley before, but I have used electronic ticket machines elsewhere in the world, such as on the BART in Northern California, and even the City trains in both Brisbane and Sydney, Australia.  I've even purchased movie tickets from a machine, and use ATM's quite regularly with much success. In fact, I fancy myself quite computer and gadget literate.

So I'm not exactly sure what happened here, it seems easy enough to purchase four, one-day fares on the trolley. But somewhere between putting my card in the slot, and pulling out my tickets, I purchased one, four-day fare. Had I known that nowhere between the points of origin and destination would anyone actually check my tickets, I might have just left it at that. But I figured I'd better do the right thing here since my kids were staring at me asking why I was getting so angry. I went ahead and purchased three one-day fares to go with my one four-day fare. We got some free tickets to the Padres game, and the San Diego MTS made a little extra profit off of it. Oh yeah, and the Padres lost 6-10 to the Colorado Rockies.



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