Used to be easy getting tickets. Either you'd send off a postal order direct or you'd go to a ticket shop & tell them what you wanted. They'd fish out a book showing the theatre's seats. Then they'd call venue and point with a pen at the seats available.
They'd give you a chit.
Had a Tesco delivery this morning and as the driver bent down to pick up one of the empty baskets he did a massive fart. Being British we both just completely ignored it even though he looked like he was dying inside and I nearly burst a blood vessel trying not to laugh.