I was laying in bed last night thinking how lucky I am that I havent had to undergo the mental torture of attending the District Convention. Then I started reminiscing about the old days and I suddenly remembered those ridiculous tickets you had to buy to pay for food. Do they still have them?
They were those brown cheap cardboard type efforts with I think 10 tickets per sheet. I cant remember how much each ticket was worth, was it 5p or 10p or something like that?
Anyway, just what was the point of those?? I think it was a very clever rip off. You would always buy loads more than you would need for the duration of the assembly, so youd end up with loads left at the end. So of course that leaves you out of pocket. If you had paid cash for things you would only have to cough up for what you actually bought, but this way the Society get an extra few quid out of you.
And you couldnt even stash them and use them at the following assembly because I think they were either dated or had different colour print on them for each assembly.
I just dont even get why they had them in the first place? Was it for security reasons? So everyone would walk around with a wad of tickets feeling oh so safe whilst leaving their bags under their seats full of the cash that they still had to bring to buy the tickets. Yep. Makes sense!
Was it because this was going to be the planned currency in the new system? Id like to buy that nice detached house in the middle of nowhere, yknow, the one in the live forever book, please. Certainly, that will be 20 million tickets please. The mind boggles.
I have to admit the best thing about them was volunteering to sell them. It was a good excuse to miss some of the sessions because you had to go and get into place ready for the lunchtime rush. And they were also quite handy when the boredom set in during the sessions. You could make nice little fans out of them and all sorts of little things.
But what was the point????