Ready, Shoot, Aim

I am not a patient person. I will be the first to admit this little fact about myself. If I didn't admit it, most of my friends and family would be happy to tell you that I am indeed the " ready, shoot, aim" girl. I have a tendency to see a situation, respond, and then think about it. I find the concept of patience noble and great. I just really don't have any desire to actually BE patient. Thankfully, I am surrounded by people that are able to inject some form of rationale before I do something terrible..usually. For instance, I recently went with my boyfriend to Las Vegas. I thought it would be fun to go and see Blue Man Group while we were there. So, I did what every normal person would do and googled "Blue Man Group" tickets. Of course THE site came up and I went about booking the tickets in the row and section I wanted to sit in. Next, I sent my boyfriend an IM, indicating that I had the "best surprise" for our upcoming trip. I proceeded to tell him I had purchased tickets for a show along with the details of the purchase. After a moment or two of stunned silence, he managed to recover enough to ask me if the tickets were refundable. I could practically see his face paling over the IM. I informed him that "of course they are not refundable, they are show tickets."He then proceeded to tell me that he could get the same tickets on several other sites for about 1/4 of the cost. In the next couple of hours, he tried everything to get a refund for me, including talking to the less than pleased operator (I had already called her and informed her of the huge rip off the tickets were and how she should really put a disclaimer on the website). Unfortunately, we were unable to refund them. Now, I am not going to disclose the price I actually paid, but let me just say, I could have done some serious damage to a black jack table for an additional week or for that matter, I might have been able to purchase plane tickets to France with the cash saved. All in all, the show was fabulous and while I thoroughly regret not completing some research before purchasing, I did love the show. I do believe I quite possibly drive everyone that is close to me slightly insane with my lack of logic, but so far they all seem to just give me an eye roll and move on. One would think that at thirtysomething I would have learned a lesson or two about patience and the ability to research before buying. Alas, I guess I am just destined to be a ready, shoot, aim sorta gal. Now, I just saw the new Michael Kors handbag on his website......