A quiz for you:
The people in this photo are lined up for:
A. Bruce Springsteen tickets
B. An audience with the new Pope
C. The new Star Wars flick
D. None of the above
If you guess D, you would be correct. These people are lined up for something far more important than any of the reasons listed (well, except maybe the Springsteen ticket choice…)
(Forgive the photo quallity – it was taken with my camera phone!)
These people are lined up for tickets to the Great Taste of the Midwest!
Each year, the tickets to this event get harder and harder to come by. When we first started going to this, somewhere around 16 or 17 years ago (Yikes!), it was held in one of the local microbreweries, and drew maybe 400 people. Maybe. Now it is held at a large park, and 5,000 tickets sell out immediately.
They got a little smarter this year. They limited the number of tickets per household to 4. That helped with the demand a bit. However, as we standing in line, word had it that at least one of the locations that were selling the tickets had already run out.
We got to our location 45 minutes early. There were already around 100 people in line ahead of us. As another couple hundred people joined the back of the line, the temperature dropped and it began to snow. Lovely.
All told, we waited in line for 1 hour and 45 minutes to buy 4 tickets each. We were frozen by the time we got the tickets, but the crowd was fun (of course they were – they were beer drinkers, after all!), and it will all have been worth it come August.
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