Hi All - Regarding Carl's suggestion below. My gut reaction is NO WAY!! It
would be nice to be able to have the reg cards printed and nice and neat for
everyone, but the below leaves the door way too wide open. Having the time
cards on card stock i am sure is super important for the trailer folk - easy
handling and consistency make things less confusing. If we did open this up, it
would not take a rocket scientist to print their own reg card, intial it and
turn it in w/out paying. Imagine the $$$ people could save not paying for
events.
As for the pen issue - let me see...I don't think I have been to a single
Autocross where I have not needed a pen for filling out a registration card. If
we can remember all the important things for our cars - Air, Oil, water, gas,
jack, torque, gloves, shoes, numbers, etc. why can we not remember a pen? We
don't always need all of the above but we ALWAYS NEED A PEN!!!
Honestly, though - I would love to be able to provide everyone with a pen when
they come to registration, but that is not possible. Please plan ahead - bring
a pen, arrive in time to register and fill out your card. I know sometimes the
line is long, but I am working hard to move everyone through. This past weekend
I lost all of the pens for registration except one. Can you imagine how hard it
is to register people with only one pen?!
We do our best to make things move along, answer rookie questions and make
people feel somewhat welcome (ok, i'm not always that pleasant...). Please,
when you are planning for an event - just plan time to register and to do the
"administrative stuff." If you think we can run things better - I invite you to
NOT respond to this e-mail, but to sign up to run registration at Stockton on
Sunday April 2 and I would LOVE to see you run the table ALONE.
Cheers!
:)kristi
PS- This is not meant to be a nasty e-mail and please do not take offense. Just
some suggestions to make the events smoother for everyone.
Carl Merritt wrote:
> So if I drew up a registration sheet in say, MS-Word format, as close to
> identical to the real reg cards as possible, could I then bring that
> pre-printed sheet and have the person working registration just sign it off?
> That would save me 5 minutes trying to legibly fill out the card and 25
> minutes hunting for a pen in my tool box =P.
>
> -Carl
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pat Kelly [mailto:lollipop@ricochet.net]
> > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:10 AM
> > To: Carl Merritt
> > Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Thank God for Schedule Conflicts
> >
> >
> > According to a preliminary count, there were 275 at 3Com Saturday.
> > Due to an incredible cough that won't die, these results
> > may take a day or
> > two to produce. As a thought, for those of you who subscribe
> > to this list,
> > please fill out your cards legibly and completely, even to
> > ZIP codes. It is
> > possible for me to find your correct zip code, even if you
> > forget, but I ain't
> > going to spend the time. So if your results take a day or two
> > longer to get to
> > you, don't blame me.
> > One competitor, Shon Sherwood, has, on previous events,
> > written an address
> > that doesn't exist, since I couldn't figure out what his
> > street name is, and
> > so far, we've bounced the last two sets of results. This time
> > Shon didn't
> > bother to put his address at all, probably figuring it didn't
> > matter. Well, it
> > does, Shon are you out there? Maybe you can type better than
> > you can write??
> > Sorry to be so mean, but this kind of stuff drives me nuts!
> > --Going bonkers, Pat Kelly, your results producer.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Carl Merritt wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody have any attendance numbers for the conflicting
> > events? I would be
> > > curious to see how large the pool of nor-cal AutoX drivers
> > is, see if
> > > attendance was sharply down at other events, etc...
> > >
> > > -Carl
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Smokerbros@aol.com [mailto:Smokerbros@aol.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:22 AM
> > > > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net; martin_93555@yahoo.com
> > > > Subject: Thank God for Schedule Conflicts
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Judging from recent turnouts at SFR autocrosses, I'm thankful
> > > > that we have scheduling conflicts (you remember those, the
> > > > ones everyone was complaining about a couple of months
> > > > ago...), otherwise we wouldn't be able to handle all the entrants!
> > > >
> > > > Charlie Davis
> > > >
> >
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Kristi A. Soo Hoo
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