I Almost Cried (LA: Part 3)

With our Price Is Right tickets in hand, we jumped on a city bus at 5:30am heading for the CBS Studio in West Hollywood on January 8, 2007. Although the five of us are night owls and dread the mornings, energy was high as we were wearing our custom-made Price Is Right shirts. We knew that one of us would be called up on that famous stage and get to hug Bob Barker.
...Little did we know what awaited us at the studio.

We arrived in front of the studio at 6:15am. we followed every instruction on our printed out tickets. The box office was set to open at 7:00am so we could get our official ticket to enter the audience. We thought we were being sneaky by jumping the gun and getting there 45 minutes early and seeing that the line outside was only 20 people long, we thought for sure that we would going on The Price Is Right.

We took our places in line and waited with great anticipation. We started chatting with the other people in line, finding out trivial information as to where they were from, how long htey had been there, etc. When we struck up a conversation with the woman standing in frontof us, we had a very strong and terrifying awakening. She told us that the line we were currently standing in was for people who had already gotten their tickets to be in the audience! Her and her husband recieved thier tickets at 3:00am and that there were none left for that day's taping! Almost immediately my heart began to race and tears swelled up in my eyes as I saw my dreams being dashed against the jagged rocks.

I ran up to the secruity officer who was guarding the studio gates and asked him if this was true. He confirmed what the bitchy woman in front of us had said. But the officer offered a glimmer of hope. We only had one last day in LA before we headed back to the cold, icy midwest, but we could get tickets for the next day's taping. So we waited in line for the studio box office to open at 9:00am to get our tickets for the taping the next day.


While we were waiting in line to get our tickets for the next day, we ran into a group of college kids who had the exact same problem that we did. After waiting with them, and getting to know them for a few hours, we decided to make a pact. Which ever group got to the line the first, we would save the other group a spot directly behind us.

With our tickets in hand, we began asking everyone who came out of the gates, what time they went to stand in line. we were not about to blow our lasdt chance of being in that audience! We got word from the secruity officer that to get the priority numbers (the tickets we needed to get into the audience) we should show up no later than 12:00am the day of the taping. (Just to give you a little reference, they don't give out the priority numbers until 7:00am...that 7 hours of waiting on the street!) We finally decided that we would be standing in that line no later than 10:00pm that night.

We left the studio and headed back to Mel's to freshen up, gather some things, and prepare for the long night that awaited us.