Did you apply to watch one of the Olympic 2012 events? Were you successful? I have avoided the question in my blog up to now, not wanting to gloat about the four tickets I have for the 100 metres men's final. I'm pleased, who wouldn't be? But I would never gloat.
I applied for just two sessions - that one and one of the others in the track-and-field programme - and got my first choice. Not bad, but all that is by the bye, mentioned in passing, as I try to get my head around another ticket over-subscription. This one involved applications to walk through the Hindhead Tunnel before it opens any time now.
The Hindhead Tunnel, or lack of it (in the sense of a functioning tunnel, open for traffic), was largely responsible for the acquisition of our Jack Russell puppy. Delays in Hindhead last month led us to take the detour that brought us quite by chance to the puppy seller's door.
The reason I can't be precise about the tunnel opening date is that the authorities are keeping the opening time a secret for fear that too many motorists will converge on the tunnel at once. Apparently that's how we get our kicks in Surrey.
I know this because 12,000 people applied for 5,000 passes issued to walk through the tunnel on one day only last month. Spare a thought for anyone losing out on both the London Olympics and the Hindhead Tunnel walk. They must have been crushed.
The tunnel is 1.2 miles long. I wonder how long it would take Usain Bolt to run it? We'll never know. He didn't get a ticket.
2 comments:
Bah humbug!
Haha, cracked me up!
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