Well, I was in Africa when I got an e-mail from a friend announcing the dates of ticket sales. I didn't participate in the pre-sale b/c I was there in Africa (that and I'm never giving a red cent to U2.com). I held onto most of my spending money after receiving the e-mail. A few days after being back, we went to a local TM place and waited in line for 3 hrs only to get a shitty random line draw. Luckily they do this 15 minutes before the sale so we decided we'd have a better chance online and quick went back to my house. We still didn't get anything online though. It was me and six others trying for us and no one got a single ticket. I bought two 5/9 GAs from a broker right away b/c I'd already saved the money. I had to call my mom and ask to use her credit card b/c I'd withdrawn all of my money to use at the TM office and had everything in cash. I paid her back immediately, but I still had to sleep at their house for the weekend to make sure my sibs didn't have parties to repay the favor. Then I decided to work over my spring break to pay off textbooks (was forced to spend a small fortune this semester since I was out of the country and didn't have time to order them cheap from half.com). I was able to find a fan with extra tickets to the 5/7 show and I'm getting those as soon as I have the money for him either from working spring break or my tax return.