Rain Rain Go Away....

It was game day once again and unlike all the other football games, it was pouring when I woke up in the morning and I had no tickets which was no surprise to me since I have not won a lottery yet to any of the football games at tech. This is why me and my friends decided to go scalping for tickets since it was Miami who was coming to play and they were ranked higher than us making it an interesting game to go to. We also decided that we weren’t going to pay more than thirty dollars for a ticket, and this was six of us trying to find 6 tickets for thirty dollars or less, which would probably seem impossible for a game of this caliber, but we still decided to try and see if we got lucky.

Before we actually went and started looking for cheap tickets, we decided to try and get some free food too. So we found a tail gate at the international student center and ate hotdogs and hamburgers there. Then at about 2:00 pm we started walking around in the rain trying to get people to sell us their tickets. We got many different responses from the many different people we encountered selling tickets. Some of them even cursed at us when we told them how much we were willing to pay for the tickets they were selling. Then we also got some sarcastic responses, which included “good luck”, with a chuckle added in. By this point we were soaked from all the day, but still had not found any tickets and there was only an hour left before the game.

Before we continued on our search for tickets we decided to take a break and have some fun by participating in some of the activities going on outside the stadium and win some free stuff at the same time. So we did the field goal challenge from state farm, won a foam finger which says VT on it. Then we signed up for something which I don’t even remember and got a free VT shirt out of it. So even if we didn’t get to go to the game, our trip around the stadium in the rain was successful as we had won some free stuff.

After having some fun with the random games outside, we continued our search for ticket and we had about half an hour left, almost time to give up and go back to our dorms. We started walking towards our dorms when we walked into these two girls who were selling their tickets for twenty dollars each and they had six tickets, exactly the amount we needed. At this point we are going crazy and buy the tickets. This is when we realize that we are soaked and would freeze to death if we went to the game soaked. This is when the mad dash back to the dorm began.

We met back in front of the stadium at 3:15 and were able to get into the stadium just in time to see the teams take the field. Then began our search for our seats, which was another adventure, as we had no idea where the seats were. Well eventually we found our seats, and started watching the game being out of breath from all the running.

The rains were pouring down now, and we were winning which made it easier to bare the cold and rain for almost 5 hours now. We decided to stay the whole time since we actually paid for the game tickets. By this time we were soaked, and could not feel anything, and there was still another quarter of football to go. By this point we were so cold that we couldn’t feel cold anymore. I am going to guess that hyperthermia was setting in, but we were enjoying ourselves and yelling our guts out in the process.

The game was over and we had officially turned into icicles, and I could barely walk down the stairs after the game since everything hurt when I tried to move. I still managed to somehow get back to my dorm and get into the shower, and unfreeze myself.

After this I went to my friend’s dorm and tried ordering pizza since we were really hungry but this didn’t work out since we would have to wait about two hours, so we just went to DX. After eating we went to a party and had a lot of fun there, since we had just won.

I got back to my dorm at about 2 am and then played some madden with my friends in the dorm. We were playing NCAA football and he played as Miami and I played as V Tech. The game ended with me winning and this was a suitable ending to this rainy day.