So, prom is fast approaching (though, like always, it seems to be approaching faster for the girls then for the guys) and ticket sales are set to wrap up next week.

The interesting thing is that by “week” I mean, 2 days during the week. And, by 2 days during the week I mean the first 25-30 minutes of each lunch.

That’s right, for our prom, they’re selling the tickets for 4 weeks, every Tuesday and Thursday of the week, and only for the first half hour of each lunch. Why am I so pessimistic about what their turnout will be? The way they’re selling it means that each graduating student will have, grand total, 4 hours in which to try and buy their ticket.

But wait! It gets better! The first two days they were supposed to be selling them, they just weren’t. They had the posters up, they made the announcements, but, there was not a prom ticket to be found. On day 2 of the “sales”, I managed to track down the teacher and buy my tickets from her directly at the end of lunch. Keep in mind, by this time 1/4 of the time in which the tickets were going to be sold had passed. Also, keep in mind that they’ve got 300 tickets to this event.

After 1 of our 4 hours of possible time to buy these tickets had passed, I purchased tickets two and three. TWO AND THREE. Of 300 tickets.

As of last Thursday, with only one hour of sales to go, they sold up to about ticket 85. Well done! You’ve shown what no effort and no coordination can do for an event!

I fully expect them to extend their sales window (what are they going to do with 100 spare tickets??), but, it also wouldn’t surprise me if they pulled the, “you’ve lost your chance” trick either. You can be sure I’ll keep you up to date.