Extra ticket(s) available in Sec 17, Th Aug 2 vs Roughriders

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From my pair of tickets in Section 17 for the next home game (Thursday August 2 vs Sask), I have an extra to sell at cost ($22). I will also entertain a swap of your single plus cash in exchange for the pair.

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This ticket is now spoken for. Thank you for playing.
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WE have been mentioning that there are a lot of tickets that regulars are giving up here for this game, that has to be an indicator for the Lions that these Thursday night gigs aren't going to draw many extra sales for the game.
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Thursday night games are really a very poor idea.
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Yeah, rather disappointed that the vast majority of the home games are Thursdays this year... so far for every game it's meant that I have to go straight there from work, arriving late every time, and not getting home until after midnight by the time I fight my way out of parking, out of downtown, and back out to the outer 'burbs. I'm fortunate to have an accommodating employer who will, whenever possible, schedule me jobs close to downtown to coincide with weekday games... but that doesn't always work out.

One game, I finished a job in Langley at 6, hit downtown at 7:30, and it took me pretty much the entire first quarter to get parked and make my way to my seat. Urgh.
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Yeah, rather disappointed that the vast majority of the home games are Thursdays this year...
Come on now, that a bit of an overstatement.

9 Home games. 2 on thursday 3 on Friday and 4 on Saturdays.
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Alright, maybe exaggerated a little bit... Thursday AND Friday though, still make it a PITA. Friday only has the advantage that I don't have to be up the next morning. Still don't like having to park my van full of tool and parts downtown, and I've still missed the start of every home game so far, including the preseason game (also a Thursday).
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You must be glad then that there are no more Thursday home games remaining.

Of the remaining six home games, the next two are on Friday evenings, and then the final four are on Saturday evenings.
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sj-roc wrote:This ticket is now spoken for. Thank you for playing.
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Going to a game, and not going to the post-game TG sucks, especially when you have to drag yourself into work the next morning.
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Canuck_4_Life wrote:Going to a game, and not going to the post-game TG sucks, especially when you have to drag yourself into work the next morning.
But Jay, you don't drink, live at home, and are much younger than most of us.......how do you have to "drag yourself into work?"
You're home by 11pm....12 tops. :sleep:

Try coming home at 4AM :shock: , explaining to your wife, and having a gallon of mojito's coarsing through your veins.....brings a new definition to "dragging yourself into work"
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Just because I don't drink what, and as much as you do, doesn't mean I don't drink.

There are a number of recovering alcoholics in my familiy. I pick and choose my spots.
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Canuck_4_Life wrote:Just because I don't drink what, and as much as you do, doesn't mean I don't drink.

There are a number of recovering alcoholics in my familiy. I pick and choose my spots.
Did you drink at the game Jay? That is more to the point of what WCBF is saying, it can't be considered dragging yourself into work the next day if you consider what real dragging yourself into work could be like.
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West Coast Blue Fan wrote:
Canuck_4_Life wrote:Going to a game, and not going to the post-game TG sucks, especially when you have to drag yourself into work the next morning.
But Jay, you don't drink, live at home, and are much younger than most of us.......how do you have to "drag yourself into work?"
You're home by 11pm....12 tops. :sleep:

Try coming home at 4AM :shock: , explaining to your wife, and having a gallon of mojito's coarsing through your veins.....brings a new definition to "dragging yourself into work"
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Everybody makes their own choices in their lives and with those choices come ramifications, good bad or indifferent.

With you guys being "much older" (your words, not mine) than me, you should have a lot more disposable income than me. Disposable income generally allows you the ability to buy more liquor or whatever.

Let me put it to you this way: a 6 pack of Stella is about 1hr of work, pre-tax.

While you, specifically, would rather drink, I prefer the more material things in life (Oakleys, ipods and so on). If that means that my definition of "dragging myself into work" differs than yours, then so be it. It probably also involves the line of work I'm in. Working with heavy machinery during the day generally affects how much and what you ingest into your body.

You judge me (and you haven't been discreet about it either), I don't judge you for making your choices.
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