Dec 15th, 2008
Follow-up to last night’s post
Alas, I was unable to complete the registration online. Up until midnight, the YMCA system was working fine. Right after midnight, it started crashing and getting stuck. I tried for twenty minutes but just couldn’t get through. So I went upstairs, set my alarm for 5 a.m., and went to sleep. Or at least tried to. Between my second p.m. cup of coffee and half-dreams about an impending zombie apocalypse (what, you don’t have dreams like that?), I had some trouble sleeping.
At 5:15, I tried the website again—no luck. So then I thought, “Maybe I should try registering by phone. Can’t hurt to try.” So I called, and a very nice man named Bill answered the phone. The YMCA had just opened, and he was the only person at the front desk, so he was pretty busy checking in swim team people and other early exercisers. But I was in no hurry—especially if it saved me the trouble of putting on go-out-in-public clothes and schlepping over there.
First he said, “Our printer isn’t working, so I can’t print up a receipt. Can you call back later?” When I explained to him that usually I wouldn’t mind doing that but this time I was feeling rather anxious because I was hoping to snag the one spot left in the class, he said he would see what he could do.
There were other complications: program members aren’t supposed to be allowed to register by phone, but he was kind enough to finagle the system so I could; their system showed Sylvia as simultaneously having an active program membership and not having one at all, so he had to poke around to figure out what was going on. I was on the phone for twenty minutes with him. But I managed to get Sylvia signed up for that swim class!
After all of this, if we show up at the first class and she starts saying she doesn’t want to be there…I am so grounding her for the rest of her life.
LOL! Well, glad she got in!
I just went through a similar online registration mess. What a pain!!
The things we do to be good moms. Good job, Mom! Sylvia may not know you’re a hero, but we do!
Hurrah!
I’m glad you got registered. Geez, what a pain. I saw you were online late Monday and wondered why. Now I know! “Grounded for the rest of her life” LOL!