Here in forumland we probably think that we are typical and that the rest of the population also live on the web because of course it's the tweny first century and everybody is net and IT savvy.
Today SWMBO and I went down to the local Greater Union Megaplex to see Ice Age III and, being the school holidays as well as tightarse Tuesday I realised the queues would be long and full of screaming kids, so I bought tickets online last night and took my printout along to 'jump the queue'. When we arrived there would have been two hundred people in the lines, and in the centre, of course, was the 'jump the queue' aisle for internet purchasers like myself. And it was empty. Amazing. So I swanned up to the front and got beckoned to the cash register to get my tickets.
Surprisingly there was muttering, the lighting of pitch torches and the waving of pitchforks from the peasants who had been waiting for ages in the clogged lines. Comments such as "WTF... ridiculous... shyte ..... hey what's going on...."
It just surprises me that whenever you go to the movies there is that ad with the Aspergers guy jumping the queue ... but is the information age not penetrating to the degree that we assume it is? You would assume that anyone over the age of thirteen would have bought tickets online or got their parents to do so, but there they were in their hundreds just queuing like cattle. Hmmmmm.
Today SWMBO and I went down to the local Greater Union Megaplex to see Ice Age III and, being the school holidays as well as tightarse Tuesday I realised the queues would be long and full of screaming kids, so I bought tickets online last night and took my printout along to 'jump the queue'. When we arrived there would have been two hundred people in the lines, and in the centre, of course, was the 'jump the queue' aisle for internet purchasers like myself. And it was empty. Amazing. So I swanned up to the front and got beckoned to the cash register to get my tickets.
Surprisingly there was muttering, the lighting of pitch torches and the waving of pitchforks from the peasants who had been waiting for ages in the clogged lines. Comments such as "WTF... ridiculous... shyte ..... hey what's going on...."
It just surprises me that whenever you go to the movies there is that ad with the Aspergers guy jumping the queue ... but is the information age not penetrating to the degree that we assume it is? You would assume that anyone over the age of thirteen would have bought tickets online or got their parents to do so, but there they were in their hundreds just queuing like cattle. Hmmmmm.
