[simple simon]

RACINE, Wis. — A little housecleaning nearly cost the Rev. Walter Hermanns a seat at Sunday's National Football Conference championship game.


Hermanns, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, was getting some help from a friend last Friday when he asked him to take care of a stack of papers left in a bin for shredding.


When his friend got to four Green Bay Packers tickets bundled together with a rubber band, he took off the band, put one in the shredder and then stopped short.


"Something rang a bell and he said, 'Are you sure you want to shred these?"' Hermanns said.


Too late. The ticket was in shreds.


They emptied the shredder, collected pieces of the ticket and put them in a plastic bag. A call to the Packers' ticket office remedied the situation, but not without some explaining.


"It almost sounded like they had heard crazy stories like this before," Hermanns said.


It helped that he had purchased the tickets with a credit card, still had three remaining tickets and had gotten the tickets through a special lottery for handicapped-accessible seats.

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[LSC9901]

I'm thinking I could dream up something equally as wild !!!

Glad they were able to get it replaced. I'm sure being a preacher didn't hurt his cause at all.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

I'm thinking I could dream up something equally as wild !!!

Glad they were able to get it replaced. I'm sure being a preacher didn't hurt his cause at all.

So who here could come up with a better tale to get some tickets?...

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

So who here could come up with a better tale to get some tickets?...

I know you probably won't believe this but I was on my way to the ticket office when seemingly out of nowhere a guy dressed up like Darth Vader jumped right in front of my car. Naturally I slammed on my brakes and when I did that I spilled coffee all over my email confirmation for my box seats on the 50 yard line. Because my very first concern was for Darth I failed to sop up the coffee from my confirmation printout and therefore no longer have proof. Darth is recovering nicely. Can you just mail me the tickets ????

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

I know you probably won't believe this but I was on my way to the ticket office when seemingly out of nowhere a guy dressed up like Darth Vader jumped right in front of my car. Naturally I slammed on my brakes and when I did that I spilled coffee all over my email confirmation for my box seats on the 50 yard line. Because my very first concern was for Darth I failed to sop up the coffee from my confirmation printout and therefore no longer have proof. Darth is recovering nicely. Can you just mail me the tickets ????

I guess the force wasn't with you at that moment...so you may be out of luck...

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

I guess the force wasn't with you at that moment...so you may be out of luck...

How about the old tried and true "My dog ate the tickets" ???

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

How about the old tried and true "My dog ate the tickets" ???

See, a classic like that, carries a certain sentiment...if you send with it a picture of a little cute pooch holding a half eaten ticket...well, some softy at the front office might send you back a ticket.

[Bette]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

How about the old tried and true "My dog ate the tickets" ???

I know for a fact this group can do better than that

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

See, a classic like that, carries a certain sentiment...if you send with it a picture of a little cute pooch holding a half eaten ticket...well, some softy at the front office might send you back a ticket.

Any idea where I might get a half eaten ticket ???

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Bette

I know for a fact this group can do better than that

So what is your plea for a new (free) ticket ??

[Gotham Dark Knight]

I will go with the fact that I am a time traveler that needs to be at the game in order not to throw off the futures time-line. The fact that I attend the game instead of the person slated to go should I not be granted a ticket, would trigger world ending events…as the person their in my place will become a future world leader who will launch world war III…if he misses the game he gets hit by a bus outside Milwaukee and the world is saved.

By the way, the ticket holder is the gentleman who has a ticket for the 50 yard line, East Side row three. The lady a seat over and the two gentlemen in the back are in on it…please do this for your country, and for world peace. No need to thank me, just doing what has to be done.

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

I will go with the fact that I am a time traveler that needs to be at the game in order not to throw off the futures time-line. The fact that I attend the game instead of the person slated to go should I not be granted a ticket, would trigger world ending events…as the person their in my place will become a future world leader who will launch world war III…if he misses the game he gets hit by a bus outside Milwaukee and the world is saved.

By the way, the ticket holder is the gentleman who has a ticket for the 50 yard line, East Side row three. The lady a seat over and the two gentlemen in the back are in on it…please do this for your country, and for world peace. No need to thank me, just doing what has to be done.

You obviously didn't watch South Park the other night. The gang wanted to remain in the third grade but even the science guys couldn't accomplish it. Goth I think you are living in some fantasy world. By the way I am one of those gentlemen behind where you'd like to be.

[LSC9901]

Oh ... and that lady ... It's Bette !!


BIG, BIG Packers fan.

[Bette]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

So what is your plea for a new (free) ticket ??

Not for the life of me could I ever come up with anything to match the stuff that comes out of your brain.
Except maybe my darling granddaughter ate it. Except that wouldnt be a story. It would be the truth.

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Oh ... and that lady ... It's Bette !!


BIG, BIG Packers fan.

ME A PACKER FAN????? Now you are really getting into the land of fantasy.

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Bette

ME A PACKER FAN????? Now you are really getting into the land of fantasy.

Well shucks ... being from cheesehead land one would only surmise that they would be your first choice !!!