No Ticket

reposted in Active Rain:

I was in NYC the other day. Penn Station is a spread out, kind-of-convoluted place. There are very few places to sit- I assume by design. I was picking up my train at 3:15 in the morning to head back from a social media club meeting that I had gone to, and honestly? I needed to sit down.

I wandered around for a while, then noticed a waiting area for Amtrak ticket holders only. I scrounged around and found my ticket, was screened by the person sitting at the desk, and found my way over to an outlet so I could charge my needy little iPhone. The freaking thing demands to be fed more often than any of my babies ever did.

So I was parked on the floor next to the electrical outlet poking around on twitter when two women came in, obviously in official capacity. One was dressed in a uniform, and the other had a shirt or something emplazoned with the word AMTRAK, in case you were wondering who she worked for. They walked over to a gentleman who was sitting in one of the seats and asked him if he had a train ticket.

Here’s where it starts getting theatre-of-the-absurd. The man said that, indeed, he was in possession of a ticket, and was asked to produce it. He began rummaging around in his bag- but he obviously didn’t have a ticket, and never had. Had he somehow expected one to materialize at the bottom of his rucksack? He scrambled around for a good five minutes until he was removed from the seats area to the standing-room-only section.

Why would someone keep looking for a ticket that never existed?

And maybe generally- why do people keep doing the same unproductive behaviors over and over in hopes of coming across that invisible ticket? I feel like you see this all of the time in Real Estate; just check the classified section of the newspaper under houses for sale. Or look at the agents who insist on a hard-sell approach, when they should be setting themselves up as trusted advisors. Or agents who are too afraid to change brokerages when theirs obviously isn’t offering support and education.

Why look for a ticket that doesn’t exist?

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