Well, here I am writing a THz from 'Sucker Demographic Night' at the St. Louis Science Center- better known as 'Christian Family Night' at the St. Lousi Science Center.
Yeah, so the deal is tickets are $8 at any of the so-called christian bookstores of a certain kind all of which are 30 miles or more from our house, or $10 at the door- but everything including parking, the Omnimax, and the Planetarium are free. So it's a good deal, right?
Eh, not really.
The 'vendors' are handing you propaganda about religious issues like real estate and life insurance. Then once you've stood in line to buy the tickets at the door since there was no where any where near within reasonable driving distance to buy them in advance, you can go do whatever you want.
Whatever, that is except anything that normally costs money.
For those you have to wait in the interminable line to get into the 'exhibit hall' where you get the little green tickets that gain you admission to stuff like the Planetarium which is all I really cared about seeing.
Why do you have to look at the exhibits to get the tickets?
You've probably already guessed. The exhibits are all set up by vendors.
So, yeah- I'm having a blast and thrilled to have dropped $30 to have the privilege of having flyers for crap I have no interest in foisted on me.
I hope the Planetarium is cool. Speaking of which- we need to go get in line since the tickets they give out are only good for certain showings. We have 7:30 so I need to go.
Posted by Roger at February 8, 2005 06:46 PM