During morning announcements, Sandra, our manager told us she had some exciting news. We were thinking, another day off. She shocked us, we have tickets for the rehearsal of the opening ceremony. The twenty volunteers cut her off by the cheers of excitement, but Sandra, being a tough New Yorker, reacted quickly to explain further. We had seven tickets, not twenty. The managers had already made a preliminary decision that it would be fair to give six of the tickets to the volunteers who came in October to run the tennis test event. Leaving one left. We drew out of Nick's dirty, but never washed, lucky hat. The diameters were set to tear off a piece of paper and fold it as small as possible. Everyone wanted a glimpse of China's show. After moments of anticipation, Nicole's name was chosen from the crumpled mass. Like winning Miss America, she stood up from her chair, clasped her mouth and shrieked that she couldn't believe she was chosen. I believe I missed the OMG. The lucky seven then tucked the precious tickets inside their knocked-off designer wallets and smiled to themselves.
One hour later: Someone walks inside the ONS office and tells us there was a confusion and those seven tickets given to us must be divided within the offices of tennis, archery, and field hockey. The three sports inside our venue, The Olympic Green at the North Zone Cluster. Regretfully all seven must surrender their tickets. At this point, everyone in the room has lost hope. Emily takes a picture with her ticket knowing that it will probably be the last time she sees it.
Fifteen minutes later: Two tickets are back. No one questions the reasoning, but we are left with another drawing session and five minutes before our shift was over. New names were written and everyone's was tossed in the hat, now declared unlucky, including those who did the test event. Cameron and Justin were selected. Cameron did a NFL victory dance and Justin sat silent in disbelief. Thanks to the Korean broadcast agency, the rest of us can look online for the leaked footage of the ceremony. Still, I wish the ticket were resting in my recently acquired, Coach wallet.
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