Anyone else get the fright of their lives with the bald security guy checking tickets at the O2?
After spending hours over the weeks on Ticketmaster,i managed to bag 3 tickets for block D2 on 17th. They were e-tickets so I printed them off and we were all so over the moon at getting floor seats. As me, my girlfriend and sis excitedly got the to the O2 that evening, I handed over my bit of paper but instead of being waved though he just looked it for what felt like ages, then shook his head and said 'Oh dear...this is bad' Then, 'Afraid i can’t let you though with these'...
I’d loved to have seen the shock on our faces, i knew the tickets were fine and couldn’t understand what was going on but he was so convincing that i had all these thoughts suddenly going through my head, 'what had i done wrong, had i printed the wrong part, i won't hear the end of this' !
Then he said they were fake tickets! My sis and gf looked at me as if i’d ruined their lives forever as my jaw was hanging open. Then the guy winked to me and the penny dropped. He kept it going for a while longet then he stared laughing and said 'No, it’s OK,only joking, you can go through.I think we must have had ‘gullible’written on our foreheads in big letters!
Can’t exactly remember what we called him but we did laugh (more out of relief i think!). We then went straght to the bar for a stiff drink! !!
What a comedian!

Lol! Those tickets really don't look real do they? When we went in with them the guy on the door could sense our concern but just smiled and said'Yeah don't worry' scanned the barcode and in we went.

JayBee319 said:

lol if it was the same guy ,he shook his head and walked off with mine to show another collegue, I was shitting it and he just came back and said " yes ,thats fine "....bastard!

I wonder how many people he did that to

When we were leaving the main arena we saw a bunch of security guys all standing in a row for no apparent reason with their hands behind their backs. So we started shaking their hands and saying thanks for coming like we were royalty on a visit. They seemed to play along

Thats my biggest fear of buying tickets off ebay etc....imagine you got all the way there and tehy said, sorry these tickets are fake or the barcode didnt scan.

im not sure if Id be more annoyed that Id wasted my money or the fact that, if I knew they were fakes, I couldnt have bought a real one in the meantime instead of thinking it was a done deal.

I actually thought all the security staff at The O2 were very friendly and professional. There was also plenty of them, always someone nearby.

On the other hand, I forgot to grab another copy of Planet Earth last night. So fuck em!

We hung around a bit before joining the aftershow queue. You kind of forget that it's a general food/entertainment venue anyway and that not everyone there was theer for Prince. In the line for the cash machines there were some right chavvy girls all tarted up from head to toe, asking us about Prince. They declared that they didn't like him and that they'd just gone out to have some cocktails at Frankie & Bennys.

The snob in me had to laugh - F&B's restaurants are on every high street corner these days. They're about as good a "night out" as popping into Pizza Hut. It just made me laugh that they'd tarted themselves up that much for that.

I also had a very funny experience with the security guys before entering the area. When we were "searched" a tall guy looked at me and said "hands up!". I replied "I'm innocent!" and he told while smiling and handing the CD "Ok then you're free to go.

Inside the area I went to one of the security guy to aks him a question and at the end of the show and he went back to me shaking hands and asked me if I enjoyed the show... Very nice. Much more professionnal and cool than the people at the O2 box office....

Ok that's it for the lill' story!!!! Peace out!