Flam

Well for starters, withholding the tickets doesn't seem to be rather generous of you, now does it? Secondly, we have no idea what you are talking about a diamond. We weren't even here for the Zap Apple jam. We were actually in the market for updating the costumes for our show staff and performers, and put out an advertisement looking for estimates. We got a letter from YOU asking us to meet you at the town square to do business, but you never showed up. We swung by Applejack's barn to try and work out a deal for the jam that would have made this trip less of a waste of our time, and were turned away. First the situation with the inn, and now that.

"See here brother, what do you mean you lost the tickets? We need to get out of here quickly, everything is looking rather .... bleak and I really don't want to be stuck in this backwater town longer than I have to! Go find them NOW!"