This may be a problem...

[flick]

When I sent in my forms for the Big Show, I checked very carefully against the list of classes on the website*, and then double checked, and then carefully wrote "Class 444" on my form.

I got my paperwork for the show last week, and today I looked at it properly to check timings. There, on my bit of paper, is the class number: 444. They'd helpfully included a copy of the actual printed show schedule, and I checked on that to make sure that the time hadn't changed, and... it appears that class 444 is now the Heavy Horses. My class has been changed to number 442.

Naturally, I noticed this after office hours were over, so I shall have to fret about it until tomorrow morning when I can phone them to go "eep".

Hopefully, when I ring them, they will be able to change it.

* The website information still says that my class is 444, which is in my favour: how was I supposed to know?

Hopefully, if they can't change it, I'll be able to get in touch with the Side Saddle Association, and we will find that all of the ladies in their historical costumes are incorrectly in the Heavy Horse class, and that will be enough leverage to get the show to change it.

But I may be buggered. Sad face.

Comments

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Have you taken a screenshot of the website showing the class as 444? Just in case.

It sounds like a typical show cock up, which I'm sure will be sorted.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

It's a pdf, but I have it, yes.

Hopefully it will be all sorted!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

If it's still 444 on the website, it's probably a typo. I think it will probably be fine.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

If they've printed the show guides with 442, though....

Argh. I suspect that they dropped a pair of classes at some point, and I saw supposed to magically know this. Argh.

[attimes-bracing.livejournal.com]

Errr... Stick GB on a serious dose of steroids and create a new class.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

[laughs]

I must admit to being bemused: they have his breed - none - and height - not much more than a pony - so how is he a heavy horse...?

[attimes-bracing.livejournal.com]

Has he been sneaking more than a few midnight snacks - maybe they are applying supermodel classifications and normal horses suddenly become heavy?

[anef.livejournal.com]

You may not be the only person with this problem.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

This is what I'm hoping, although I have a slight fear that many of the SSA ladies are so old-school that they might have phoned for details and then sent of an SAE to get forms, rather than going to the website!

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I bet they'll be able to sort it out for you. Alternatively, we are looking forward to coming and watching you & GB with all those Shires.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Phew, all sorted out.

(It's probably bad and wrong of me to be thinking now that it would have been quite amusing, actually, isn't it?)

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

Phew, you don't have to compete in the Bothersome Cockup category.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I think "bothersome cockup" is one of the classes in a completely different kind of horse show.