The movie The Out of Towners, portrayed the hapless, mostly comical aspects of a couple coming to New York City and being overwhelmed. It was Sandy Dennis and Jack Lemmon (now both deceased) as this duo and all the scrapes they were involved in, which were many. No one has ever told of the many triumphs of visitors to NYC.

This last Saturday evening my sister and brother-in-law, Clare and Larry Silver, came into town. Their mission was to see their great-nephew, Lewis Arthur Greenberg, my grandson. He is 16 months old and quite precocious. They traveled from Potomac, MD and were staying at a hotel.

After a lovely visit with Gregg and Jennifer, Lewis' parents, at about 7:30 p.m. on the Saturday evening in question, Clare decided she wanted to see a Broadway show. We all chuckled.

We all told her (as longtime New Yorkers) that she must be kidding. "You will never get tickets to any show because the curtain goes up in a half hour," we all pleaded. We helped them into a taxicab and made plans for breakfast the next morning.

About 9:30 p.m. that same night our phone rang. It was Clare calling from the August Wilson Theater. She was calling at intermission and the show she and Larry were seeing was Jersey Boys. They were sitting in the fifth row center and were enjoying the show immensely. The two tickets were purchased for $75 each.

"Impossible!" we cried. "That is the toughest ticket to get on Broadway. People wait months for seats to that show." Five weeks prior I paid $120 apiece for two tickets in the very last row.

And now my out-of-town relatives were sitting in the best seats in the hosue at almost half the price that the "savvy New Yorkers " paid. They were very nonchalant about their accomplishment. We, on the other hand, were stunned.

They had met a man at the box office about 10 minutes before showtime. He was selling two tickets and asking $100 apiece. They fished in their pockets and came up with $150. The man said, "OK."

My wife, Lorraine, always says, "Never give up." Moral: Good things happen if you try! (Even to "out-of-towners").