Things to do while waiting for them to answer the phone:
1. Read posts on the web-based community known as
www.interference.com by other fans who have been calling all day to find out why their password isn't working for a second pair of tickets.
2. Watch the six o'clock news.
3. Leave the phone on but put it down on the kitchen counter while you leave to...
4. Go to the Back Yard Burgers location down the street to get a cheeseburger for your spouse and a chili cheese baked potato for yourself.
5. Return home and pick up the phone to find out that the phone is still on and you are still waiting.
6. Eat a chili cheese baked potato.
7. Listen to "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" and "City of Blinding Lights" in heavy rotation on the phone.
8. Use the restroom.
9. See if there is any ice cream left in the freezer.
10. Eat some ice cream.
11. Decide whether to run a quick half-marathon around the town while waiting on your call to be answered.
12. Wonder if Kobayashi, who first called them a country away much earlier in the morning, ever got through.
But after all of that, I finally got through. Now, I am waiting on the "re-activation" e-mail.
~U2Alabama