Thursday, October 15, 2009

Dangerous Games

“Would you please get up? This is the seat number on my ticket.”

First, he ignores you. At the subdued second asking, he stands erect and beats his chest to proclaim his gorilla ruggedness. You make a good choice, and, as you inch your pacific way out of the stadium of sneak thieves, King-Kong kerfuffles erupt all around you over stolen seats.

24 comments:

  1. I would run away...did it happen to you? They would pick up a fight over something they know is wrong. I tell you...as if you don't know...lol.

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  2. When Ghana played Sudan, most of us who got VIP tickets had to stand for the whole match, because other people 'stole' our seats. And, yes, unlike my friends and I, some people chose to settle it the ol' bloody way.

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  3. This a popular one on the flights as well. I really hate when that happens. Is it that they can't read or are just plain stubborn? Argh!

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  4. *LOL* Nothing like a good fist fight over stolen seats!
    @Denise:I have been on KLM twice where they assigned the same seats to different people and they all had the boarding passes to prove it!

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  5. Happens all the time i tell ya. Good thing you didn't choose to settle it the ol' bloody way...

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  6. At first, I thought you were writing about plane seats in a flight. I was going to unleash some frustration. :-)

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  7. Trying to imagine how to remain calm standing for more than an hour, while a thug sits on a seat I have duly paid for.
    A poimter to a morally sick amd lawless society:Our Ghana!

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  8. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu15 October, 2009

    Plain old disorganisation in the motherland.You don't have a ticket for VIP, no access. As simple as that! Those who have actually should not suffer. Customer Service it is called!

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  9. I have never had that experience but I can imagine the frustration that might lead to blows.

    Did I mention I like your catchy titles and short punchy deliverance? Very creative, well done!

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  10. Grrr...can't stand it when people knowingly try to get away with stuff like that!Illiteracy could be their problem...perhaps?

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  11. Sigh. So nerve-racking!

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  12. Yes, Lucci. It was a lucky thing Ghana won. There may have beena minor riot otherwise.

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  13. Not to talk about knee-busting, Raine!

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  14. Perhaps, Raine. That's easy. At one level, even illiterates tend to be able to read numbers (I think). At another level, many illiterates are among the most polite people around. So the answer, I think, becomes they are just uncivilized.

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  15. Thank you for your kind words, Myne. It all comes from my poetry background. Brevity is the soul of wit, no? And I hope your seat is never taken!

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  16. True, Kwame. But, to be fair to the usurpers, I heard later that many of them also had tickets! It means, then, that some unscrupulous official produced the tickets in duplicate! Imagine that!

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  17. Well, Oluniyi, you could still have unleashed it, no? ;-)

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  18. I have a famous temper, Blogoratti. I am also famously diminutive. So I do not settle disputes physically.

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  19. Well said, Posekyere. As I said earlier, we were risking a riot had Ghana not won that match!

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  20. Yes, Abena, but you go into a fight after doing your risk analysis, no? I would never knowingly fight a man-gorilla.

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  21. Denise, just plain stubborn. And they know that most people will not create a scene!

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  22. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu16 October, 2009

    Nana, when is that sort of thing going to be stopped? I remember when Herbert Mensah first took an interest in Kotoko, all he did was to have one place for the sale with the usual security tags. With the passage of time the details are now hazy, but i remember clearly that in a short time they were running him out the place--and every other club that he has pitched his tent since. We know what to do but....

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  23. Kwame, it's safe to say it will not stop. Not here.

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