Absolutely hysterically panicking
I just came in here to check whether the same wristband system was used as last time for getting into the 'bomb shelter' and now I feel positively ill reading through this thread. I booked 4 presale tickets to go to Dublin next Saturday. I'm American but I live in England now. My family are coming all the way from Ohio to see me and spend time with me, and I'm bringing my sister (who I see only once a year), my husband (who is also my best friend, but not a big concert-goer) and another friend (who I'm less close to but who is as big a U2 fanatic as I am.) Worse, my husband is 6'4" and my sister and the other friend are tiny - under 5'4". If they're in back, they won't see anything and could be in danger. But my husband is mainly going to be with me and because I want to get him as hooked on U2 as I am, and I don't know how much fun he'll have without me. I honestly don't know what to do here - even if I get lucky and 'beep', who the hell do I take with me, and who do I relegate to a potentially bad spot? Is it worth getting there early to queue at all? But if I don't, I'm likely to get stuck literally all the way at the back and I won't see a damn thing, particularly as it's Dublin so we're talking serious hardcores attending.
More than that, my tickets never arrived. Ticketmaster tell me that if I ring next Monday they'll sort out duplicates for the box office but I can see this all going horribly horribly wrong. What if the duplicates don't have the fanclub presale code on them (for which I paid good money on the fanclub membership), or worse, what if they aren't there at all?? I will be more than devastated if my family travel all the way from America to *not* get in at all...and given that U2's music has been one of the most important things in my life for the last 10 years, and this trip is literally a dream come true for me...I honestly don't know how I'd handle it if it all went wrong. This is the ONLY show I can afford to get tickets for so if I don't get in I don't see U2 on this tour, period, and...God I know I'm a drama queen and people will say I'm overreacting but it would be a very real loss to me. It's stupid, but I will be very, very upset and depressed.
God, if I wasn't panicking before I am now. Do I show up stupidly early and get a number and then do more sightseeing and come back? Do I wait there all day alone and hope I get in and it's just tough for all the people I came with? Do I risk getting crushed? Do I just leave it all to chance and show up at 6:00 and hope I get lucky?
Please, if anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it. Hearing all these horror stories...I just don't know what to do. I realise that some people do have to work but this gig is on a Saturday for starters, and first come first served has always seemed pretty fair to me.
Help?