We totally bugged our asses off. We had tix for both nites Albany up to Cuyahoga falls. That wasn't the worst part of it though; you see there was enough time to buy replacement tix but not enough loot to buy them with. Albany was sold out, and the only tix available was through a ticket broker, and they wanted 150.00 per tik per nite . Now, if i am correct, that adds up to 600.00 just for albany.WHUT DA PHUCK???@#$$%$%#@.

By this time i've prayed to just about every god imaginable and no luck.  In a last ditch effort to keep me from spending my life's savings, i contacted "tix-by-mail" to see if i could at least get my seat numbers for albany( the only shows i ordered by mail), so when i get to the concert i could strangle the people in our seats. 

I told them my story and how i've gone to albany the last 3 years and that the only tix we were able to score were 150.00 a pop . He advised me not to buy them yet and since i had bought them via-mail order that they might be able to replace our seats

So, the next day i went out and bought the rest of our tix through ticket bastards.  Now this is where the story makes a miraculous twist. As we returned home with our tix (even though i had to rebuy my tix, i was still excited to have them),  i met up wit my boy who was holdin' some headies, in which we celebrated our newly purchased tix.  

I took a sample home with me, THANK GOD!! because as we returned back to my girl's house i went to put the bag under "HER" front seat and low and behold there were our fuckin' tix.  Out of all the bullshit i put us thru i didn't even bother to look in her car thoroughly.  

I was ecstatic, i mean i was jumpin' and dancin' all down her street and kissed every person i saw (girlfriend and sidewalk actually), even though i had just spent $300.00 less than one hour ago. I contacted Phish and told them i found 'em, and 2 weeks later i was enjoying the final tour with the friends i had sold my xtras to.

 - brian maude