The plan was for the fiancé to order the Comic-Con badges and waltz back into work a little over 10 minutes late. Our shift happened to start at the exact time the badges went on sale, 11:00 AM Central. Not a big deal considering the relatively slow nature of Monday at our work, The Wheatstone Bistro in Memorial Union on Mizzou campus. Not a big deal. I was to inform those in charge of Derek's task, who would say "No big deal" and a few minutes later we would be the proud of owners of San Diego Comic-Con International badges.
Cut to: Derek standing at the counter, eyebrows knitted together with confusion, coat on and backpack slung across his back.
"The servers are down. I need to go home to get more bandwith."
I didn't exactly understand what these statements meant, except for the "going home part". I'm not that kind of nerd.
Our shift passed and Derek never came back to work. A quick check of my phone as I clocked out revealed: "Well, we broke Comic-Con."
The once promising "Registration Here" button has been replaced with a message:
Comic-Con's servers could not handle the amount of people who flooded the site for badges as soon as registration began. After about two hours worth of site crashes, they shut registration down. Personally, I have to commend them for the courage to shut the site down and admit defeat as opposed to forcing their public to muddle through.
They estimate that only about 10 badges were actually sold today. Who knew that the easiest part of going to Comic-Con would be saving up the money.
Apparently, there are a few more nerds in the world than we thought.
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