7am Toronto Reload-a-thon

Published by Toronto Mike on March 1, 2008 @ 16:28 in Toronto News ~ Toronto Focus

There's nothing I like better then waking up at 7am on my Saturday so I can press the F5 key on my laptop hundreds and hundreds of times. Today is the Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation registration day for spring and summer 2008, so hundreds of parents like myself had to log on at 7am to secure a spot for swimming lessons, day camps or whatever.

My wife thinks I'm better at this because I work on computers. The fact is, all I do is visit http://efun.toronto.ca/torontofun/ and reload the page until I get in, but apparently I'm good at it. She carefully put together instructions as to which swimming lesson to get James in and which camps to get Michelle in and so forth, and at 7am I was online and F5ing away.

My mom tells me she used to have to physically go to the swimming pool to secure a spot and that I'm lucky I can do this from my own bed. She might be right, but when the clock hit 7:15am and still hadn't made contact, I was pretty ticked off at the whole process.

By 7:20am I was in and our kids' summers were successfully planned. You should expect nothing less from a professional reloader.

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