Kenneth Martinez8
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23 messages
joined Mar 2013
You're wrong.
The meetup was set for two hours before kickoff, but two hours before kickoff, nobody showed up.
It was just classic American lack of discipline and punctuality where people agree on 7:00 but show up at 7:45, 8:00, or 8:15... they grab a beer first and then roll up to the meeting spot thirty minutes before the game expecting everyone to have a perfect plan ready to go.
Most people didn't even have tickets because they were being "smart" and waiting to see how things played out, so the line was long as hell, like a massive traffic jam on I-95.
People can talk all the trash they want now that the dust has settled, but in the moment, from what I saw, making a call wasn't easy. Opinions were split, people were arguing, and we ultimately decided it was better to skip it than to let 300 people rush the stands.
If all those geniuses who showed up late—which is basically life, isn't it? Late for school, late for work... that's why we are where we are—had actually been on time, there would've been enough time to buy tickets, check the blacklist, and we could've had a crowd of maybe 1,000 to 1,200 people in the North Stand.
From what I managed to see and hear, deciding not to go was the least bad option available.
Maybe this should be a lesson for the future: if we say 7:00 PM at the pub, that doesn't mean showing up at 7:59 at Starbucks, Dunkin', or wherever... you show up at 7:00, or maybe half an hour early.
Anyone seeing conspiracy theories or some deep plot in this is just hallucinating.
Next time, everyone just shows up on time and we'll see how it goes.