finally, phil and i got to go to our first buffalo sabres game tonight, vs florida. only took half a season for us to make it haha. we spent a half an hour yelling with the account services people about our tickets to the toronto game being stolen before thanksgiving, before i stormed out of the office. really. so tired of the bullshit. the simple fact that you gave us a default password of our zipcode makes you liable. negligence is the word i believe. everyone i’ve talked to about the situation says we can take them to small claims court. seems like a whole lot of trouble for forty two fucking dollars! but now it’s the principle of the thing. you don’t create an unsafe web application and then claim that you’re not responsible when things go wrong. having never logged onto our account, i don’t know, but it’s possible that phil’s credit card information is listed in it – the person who stole our tickets could have easily stolen his credit card if so. it’s absolutely ridiculous. phil laughed later on that i got so pissed off. i was seriously livid and on the verge of a stroke. i said it is damn good the sabres won the game or i would have been even more pissed off. for future use i wrote a nice 2 page letter calmly explaining the whole situation, the reasons we think the sabres are responsible for the theft of our tickets, and what we would like from them – forty two fucking dollars. not too much to ask for i don’t think!

anyway. as it happens, mark from the CTRC board was sitting 3 seats away from us. small world. and from him, i got the story about my true vintage jersey…#7 john tucker. one of those players who they called up from rochester, scored in every game, but was sent back only to go on to later success until he ruined his career with cocaine. ha!

overall the game wasn’t terribly exciting, we played like absolute shite on the power play (it looked like our 5 years ago power play), had only 16 shots but managed to win 2-1 without going into overtime. it was still fun once the 1st period ended and we weren’t as pissed off anymore. and i finally was able to get a stuffed sabretooth!! and for free, because we forgot about the “sabres bucks” that came with our season ticket account. haha. next game in 2 weeks. vs…carolina. should be a good one.