the game is up

It goes without saying that rugby is big in this household.

It is our national game after all. 

For one household member in particular, it is a religion.

Every game gets watched, recorded, replayed, analysed at length, watched again, committed to memory, brought up at some random moment, discussed, read about, compared & watched again. (Sound familiar anyone?)

In this household, for Brunnel, the whole of 2011 has been geared towards Rugby World Cup, which starts in - let me just look it up - ooh, 30 days!

And no, before you get excited, he is not an All Black.

I have a seat in the stadium of four-million (New Zealand's catchphrase to inspire the whole country to get behind such a huge sporting event) - in other words, I'll be watching it at home on television.

Brunnel has a seat in the actual stadium. Several seats actually. For several games. In several stadiums.

The first tickets arrived. A flick-flack of tickets. Enough to wallpaper a small room.

Oh, but he assured me they weren't just for him. He was just the 'ticket getter', for his group.

Of course.

Then he made a small mistake.

He ever so furtively, ordered his tickets for the final rounds -semi final & final.

(Heck, I hope we're even in them, but that's another story.) 

And made the mistake of printing out his order confirmation and leaving it on the printer.

Where I found it. 

Of course the tickets weren't for him. They were for Doug. Sure.

Well, naturally, I've dined out unashamedly on that little 'treasure' ever since. Actually, it has given me much leverage on our house renovation. Any of my little junk shop & Trade Me finds can very quickly be justified by mentioning their infintessimal value compared to his Rugby World Cup tickets.

He has no comeback.

 He also has no tickets. 

I wondered when he would notice.

He has been thinking they should have arrived by now.

I overheard him three weeks ago, asking friends if they had received theirs.

Some had & some hadn't. He relaxed a bit. No need to panic if they hadn't all been delivered yet.

Last week I overheard him asking again.

Yes, it seemed they had all received them now.
I smiled to myself.

How strange then that Brunnel didn't have his. He was quite worried.

What if they'd been delivered to our building site, and gone missing?

He thinks they're stolen.

Brunnel rang the ticket office with his no ticket problem.

'Yes sir, you should definitely have them by now. We'll do an immediate track & trace on them and get back to you'.

Yesterday they rang him back.

'Sir, the tickets were delivered on Jul 7 2011 at 9:28AM and signed for by "AMANDA".

I'm still smiling to myself!
Amanda xx

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