Getting Things For Free, Vol. 11: Free Fela For Your Being In the Right Place at the Right Time

A friend with a birthday is a good friend indeed. A friend with two tickets to Fela on her birthday is a good friend... take heed! To get a free ticket to a Broadway show it’s crucial to be a cold, callous networking machine. You have to take your coworker under your wing, make her your comrade and milk her for tickets on her special day. Or you can just be in the right place at the right time. Like the time I was friends with my coworker and her boyfriend couldn’t make it to the show for which he bought two tickets. And that’s how it’s done.