I was under an illusion
 

I'm crying here since...Monday? more or less
And i don't know why i'm writting it here but...
Like you know,i bought a pit ticket on Richie's side (i love him) for last wednesday 23,i was searching for it and i didn't have lucky but i could find it on TM and it made me sooo happy,really...it was my first time with a pit ticket i was very,very excited to see me there,inside the circle.
Days before the concert i was planning fly and hostel to go to London,but in the last minute i couldn't fly to London,believe me it shocked me so badly..)i cried all day.I tried everything but..nothing.Yesterday i thought to try to go to the last show but everytime i remember my pit ticket..it makes me anxiety.Maybe i had to try more things to go there but believe me i tried everything.And I'm desesperate cause i don't know if i could get another pit ticket in the future.
Well,as far as i know,pit tickets are sold out for tomorrow,i emailed to o2 to explain what happenned to me and the first time they replied saying they were going to try to get me into it but then..they started to say they can't do nothing.I'm looking for people who has any pit ticket for tomorrow,i know a guy who is going to all o2 shows and has got pit for every night and we know each other and i told him it and he doesn't want to sell it to me i understand everybody wants to be in pit but ...
I was planning to go to London althought i have not get pit but i don't know what to do.
Tomorrow night was my last chance.I'm so regretful for not going wednesd with my ticket that it makes me feel so distressed....
So..my illusion was seeing them in o2 and look where i am...so enjoy it for me please *crying*

Pfff, dont cry, you'll have another chance next time. Why dont you buy one of that £10 tickets and enjoy the night, you dont have to be in the pit... :/

As TBoy says.... Go anyway :-) You can buy yourself a £10 ticket and still enjoy the show.

Yes, I know you won't be in the pit, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out altogether. You can still dance, sing, jump about and have a fab time in other seats.

Go and get yourself a £10 ticket now and enjoy the show :-)

you know, that is the point :( she was supposed to BE in the pit and now what she feels is FRUSTRATION. This is the one of the most nasty feelings. It can kill you, upset you, drive you to tears:(



Hey Pat, I can imagine how bad you feel. I don't know but I think that in this situation the best thing you can do to help yourself is just to buy whatever ticket is available, because it is better than nothing. and there is still a chance that you will get an upgrade at the spot (but please, do not count for this so that not to be fruistrated once again). If you do not give yourself this "consolation prize" you will end up with nothing totally, which will make you even more sad:( You will regret it even more if you stay at home looking at computer screen and reading the setlist on paper. A bad seat is still better than none!

I can also understand the guy, but if he is your friend, and if he doest not share with you what he has to the excess, it is a bit selfish:(

I don't know if i will have another chance.When they came to Madrid last time i was there spending the day before(first time doing it)but i wanted to see them close (i saw them in concert 2 times before but not close)i did a favour to one person this way we could be in front row,what happenned?that person was front row but not me...It made me so sad..not for not being in front row but that person who lied to me (and i spent the day before for me and for that person too)so this time i saw my chance to see them close and not only seeing them close i wanna be there in pit at least once in my life.Because you know most of Bon Jovi concerts pit area is for FC members and other concerts are not like o2 shows i think.The o2 stage is not high,is very close to the seats..you know.And everything was going ok i was planning everything for London,so just imagine when in last minute i couldn't caught a fly to go there.
So,i'm not sure if i could get pit seat in the future.
I thought to buy a cheap ticket for tomorrow,but...I'm from Spain so i should to travel to London,book a hostel...The reason i couldn't go wedn was the money i bought the ticket but i didn't have enough money for fly and hostel and no one gave it to me.Very sad.I was disappointed.
Of course i would like to go tomorrow althought i get a cheap ticket(but you must understand it hurts to know i could be in pit and i'm not)but if i was in London it was easier,but here in Madrid i have a lost of doubts.

Pat, I do feel for you! I can uderstand what you feel and it makes me crazy that I am helpless:(:mad:
Please, do not think that it was your ONLY chance. I had the same feeling when I missed the O2 shows (learnt too late about a chance of buying cheap tickets and cheap flights) and thought I lost my ONLY chance to ever see my favourite band live (never had this experience in my life). and it made me depressed. But later I thought that it does not need to be like that.
Pat, think that they WILL play again. From what I heard they are coming back to Europe next year. In understand that the pit tickets are indeed expensive and that the discount in o2 gave you a chance to afford them. But what if you start saving your money now? This is the thing I am doing right at the moment because I predict that when they come back they can be fairly expensive. And I also want to have a close seat (this is the point of all enjoyment of the show), even though I cannot afford it without saving some cash and taking some additional little jobs.
I know that what I write does not repair all the situation, does not do away with all that injustice and cannot bring back the lost chance. But it is the only realistic line of action that you may undertake, I think. I know that better said than done!

But of course, no matter what we say, these guys who used your kindness and did not want to pay to you with the kindness are indeed selfish! Shame on them!

I do understand your all frustration and I am so sorry for you.

You have two choices.....

You either sit at home and think about the pit ticket you couldn't use

Or

You buy a £10 seat, jump on a plane and enjoy the final night of the show from a normal seat.

I know you're disappointed about not benig able to use the ticket, but surely you cannot expect your friend to give their ticket up for you to use?

They're presumably looking forward to the show as much as you are/were. Just because they've been before doesn't mean they enjoy it any less. I'm not being harsh, just a realist.

You will have other chances of pit tickets. You need to forget about it on this occasion.

You say you couldn't come last time due to lack of funds. I assume you have overcome that now? You have the money for flight and hotel? If you do, then jump on a plane, grab a cheap show ticket and enjoy the final night of the tour, safe in the knowledge that pit tickets will come round again.

I know you're disappointed, but I also know that if it was a choice between sitting at home and crying over an unused pit ticket, or sitting at the o2 watching the final night from a cheaper seat, I would go with the latter any day of the week.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Thanks Marta Anna for your words ;)
I know they will come back to Spain but i'm not sure i could get pit ticket for those concerts and..like i said before..there are not seats i suppose.And i don't know i wanted to go to London..everything was perfect pit ticket,spend some days in London...but like you have said..I am going to start saving money for next time this way i will get things for myself and not waiting for someone.
BTW i'm looking on TM and i can't see tickets for tomorrow..Sold out or what?It's okay..I'm going to try to forget what happened to me...:cry:

hey Pat

I know that what happened to you cannot be helped:( I think that in this situation the best way to make yourself feel a little little bit better is to imagine someone whom you know who goes through a much greater tragedy and would be happy if his only problem was only the lost chance of a dream show.
You know, whenever such things happen to me and I cannot cope with them and I do know that they can't be helped, I think about my friend who had a car accident and for 10 years by now has not been able to get up from wheelchair. The only thing she can do is to move the palm of her right hand:( When I have ilonesses in the family, frustrated hopes, problems at work, lost chances never to be regained I always think that this women would be still happy were she in my shoes.

I do not know, but maybe this way of thinking would help.

And for sure GO to the show even if it were to be the cheap ticket. You will die of sorrow if you stay at home looking at the screen and tracing the abstract paper set-list!

then give to us a report from the show, OK? I would be jealous even for that experience of yours because I am staying home:)

i would love to go there tomorrow but from Spain i have to buy a flight,book a hostel,buy another ticket(it seems is sold out now cause i can't find tickets on TM)and i have not a lot of money so i would have to ask for it for family,friends...and if i couldn't fly to wedn...i don't think i could do it tomorrow with other ppl money.So..I have learned something...I have to start saving money and get things for myself...and...of course i will get another pit tickets for next concert on Richie's side if it's possible :D