Cleburne egg drop: FAIL

It was a demonstration of a great idea executed poorly. The instructions were to bring 10 eggs per kid by yesterday at 5pm and get a ticket. Apparently the response was so high that they ran out of tickets but felt like they had so many eggs that anybody could just show up. That was their first mistake.  What they ended up with was at least a thousand people and very few signs to let anyone know what was going on, where to go and what to do.

The WWII plane was supposed to fly over with what I imagined would be a dramatic drop of eggs.  What we ended up with next was greedy kids taught by greedy parents rushing to scarf up all they could. Areas that were supposed to be for certain ages to make it fair were not followed. In the end my three year old ended up with three eggs and my seven year old got six. I think this quote from him on the way home sums it up nicely, "This was the worst thing I've ever done." 

Anyone planning a public event needs to go above and beyond on information and communication for those attending. Next year we'll stick with smaller events.  

A. J.