Yes, sometimes I open mail that doesn't belong to me. It works to my advantage at my job, because I am the chief mail opener and I usually get a lot of fun packages at work. I open all of our mail at home (except when it looks special and is addressed to Jon). Plus, Jon knows me well enough to send mail that I shouldn't see to his work office.
The most awful thing that I've ever done was when I was in high school. There was a thick envelope from the Detroit Symphony addressed to my mom. Thinking that they must have addressed it to the wrong person (I was the musician in our family, of course), I opened it thinking that it was just a sales brochure. But, it wasn't a sales brochure. It was a large stack of tickets. My mom walked in the room just in time to scold me, yell "Rebekah" in a deeply disappointed manner and grab the envelope away from me.
Why was it such a big deal?
I had just opened up my Christmas present of season tickets to the symphony two months early. Yikes!
She threatened to return the tickets, but she didn't and I was able to enjoy lots of great concerts with the Detroit Symphony that year.
Ever since then, I've tried to go to a handful of concerts each year. We've been really fortunate to get great deals on tickets through friends and discount organizations. These past two years, we have participated in the 37/11 series. If you're under 37 years old, you can get tickets to selected shows for $11 each. Jon bought tickets to the first concert of the series this year and, for some reason, the tickets were only $3.50 each. That's $7.00 total! That's less than a yard of fabric!
The best part about it was our seat location...first row of the dress circle and our favorite seats in the house. Tickets in the seats where we sat normally go for $75 each. Ever since he scored the tickets, anything that we buy is automatically referred to in DSO amounts. "that's five times as much as tickets to the DSO" or "man, this lunch is good, but we could have gone to see the DSO twice for what we paid for this."
So, we got to hear our favorite symphony and watch our favorite musician friends for only $7.00. The featured artist of the evening was, Sharon Isbin. She is incredibly talented. I loved hearing her playing her guitar. She sounded like buttah! And, she played one of my favorite pieces, Fantasia por un gentilhombre by Rodrigo. As much as I love playing it on the flute, I have to admit that it was made for the guitar and sounds so much better on a stringed instrument.
One day...one day, I will pull out my guitar and work up those calluses again! Hearing her play was such an inspiration!
So funny that you have an "opening people's mail" problem and now you get paid for it! I can't believe how inexpensive your tickets have been to go to the symphony. Sounds like heaven to me! I wonder how much they are around here...
Posted by: Trisha | 19 October 2009 at 10:07 AM
i love going to the symphony. and at $3.50 a ticket - who wouldn't love that?!?
Posted by: melissa | 19 October 2009 at 10:30 AM
$3.50 a ticket?! That's ludicrous! My husband gets yelled at if he opens my mail lol And being a lawyer he likes to remind me that it's legal for him as my spouse to do so. Hmph.
Posted by: Audrie | 19 October 2009 at 10:31 AM
When I lived in Detroit I got to see the symphony once -- it was a great experience!
Posted by: Beth | 19 October 2009 at 10:55 AM
You are so bad, lol! I've never been to the DSO - maybe if I could find tickets at that price, I could, lol! Not sure I could convince my boys to sit through it though. They want to go see the Star Wars concert.
Posted by: Allie | 19 October 2009 at 01:15 PM
I get overly excited about mail, too. Waaaaay overly excited.
Posted by: CitricSugar | 19 October 2009 at 02:41 PM
oh - I'm bad like that too - just curious right?! What a score on those tickets too - looks like an amazing evening!
Posted by: Amber | 19 October 2009 at 07:37 PM
How fun! I love going to the orchestra. My friends usually take me for my birthday in November which is always so fun (and exciting to look forward to!)
Posted by: jessica | 19 October 2009 at 07:51 PM
How cool is it that your mom had gotten you season tickets, what a great gift. Glad you are still finding time to go to concerts, they are very inspirational. It made me laugh when you compared the tickets price to a yard of fabric, I do that too!
Posted by: Stephanie | 19 October 2009 at 07:55 PM
i like how you compare everything to the greatly priced tickets. that's the type of thing my husband and i would do, too.
Posted by: amandajean | 24 October 2009 at 01:04 PM
I love going to the orchestra. My friends usually take me for my birthday in November which is always so fun (and exciting to look forward to!)
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