Thursday, November 10
And I thought Columbus was considered a cow town
I went to a motivational seminar Tuesday at the Jacksonville Veteran's Memorial Arena.
The actual seminar itself was excellent for the most part. But this isn't about that.
Let's start out with the news that 10,000 people, extra people than most days no doubt, but only 10,000, were going to be going to this seminar. Everybody going downtown was told to avoid certain bridges and use Union Street. Of course, Union Street is the street that one was supposed to take to get to the seminar in the first place.
Can we take these people who evidently have no concept of how to get somewhere in this city and have their heads removed from their asses? Let's be honest, if a city the size of Jacksonville is unable to swallow an extra 10,000 people hitting the downtown, can this city be truly prepared to handle even a sell out at Alltel Stadium? Judging from the traffic before and afterward, the answer is no.
The whole day there seemed to be this complete showing of cluelessness going around. Parking was set up over a mile away from where the seminar was actually held at. Why? The Duval Agricultural Count Fair was going on (even though it didn't open up until when the seminar was over), and evidently the closer parking was reserved for that. That wouldn't have been too bad if the shuttle busses they had actually knew where they were picking people up and dropping them off at. The one bus that we boarded to get there stalled out and couldn't be restarted. No other busses showed up. We ended up walking through the stadium where there were two golf carts taking people back and forth. Yeah, they hold a whopping 6 people.
We got seats that supposedly we weren't supposed to be sitting in (a nice sign might have been nice to state what the heck the seats were for), but in the end, people were sitting in them. I'm still unsure on what the point was.
Lunch time was a fiasco. This restaruant had a buffet, but the line was ridiculous, the food was gone, and the staff was complete unprepared for what was happening. We ended up with drinks only for lunch, which meant I was starving by the time we ate dinner at Olive Garden. I had too many carbs for one meal, but I had less than I usually have for the day.
I plan on going to the seminar next time they have it, but if it's at the same place and during the same kind of time period, I'll be leaving at least an hour early. And quite possibly packing my own lunch. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 11/10/2005 01:24:00 PM
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