Some of the Venue Entry Security Team |
8.30 this morning. A nice cup of tea before the gates opened |
My goodness the
military personnel on my lane were grumpy. They were in charge yesterday and didn’t they let you know
it. “Faster!” “Slower” “Tell them
to take their belts off!!!!” Me:
“I did.” I got home to Sock Monkey
Mansions last night pissed off, annoyed and upset. If today had been like yesterday there wouldn’t have been a
tomorrow as Sock Monkey a Games Maker. Sock
Monkey didn’t volunteer my summer holidays UNPAID to be moaned at for 3 solid
hours by the army. If I had I
would have joined up years ago.
A lot of the military have ad their leave cancelled to cover
G4 Security’s fuck up but it isn’t my fault. I talked to a nice female squaddie at lunch who was just
about to be deployed to Afghanistan so they really could do with being at home.
Some of the ticket holders weren’t having a nice time
either. It was BUCKETING and
freezing cold. I had one stroppy
Kevin the Teenager type who became all arsey when I asked, “Do you have any
liquids in your bag?” Its airport
security to get into all of the venues and he had about 6 x 500ml bottles of
water in his bag. He had a massive strop then still tried to get through the
metal detector with a bottle of lucozade in his sweaty, teenage paw.
This is how busy we are. At Gate 10 Wimbledon, my home for yesterday, we cleared
3,000 people through security in 12 minutes. I doubted that was possible in the laws of physics but
that’s what my
supervisor said.
Venus Williams |
Anyway. Today
was fantastic! We were amalgamated
with another security tea, and were sent to Gate 1. They had had a bit of a nightmare the day before but
apparently we are the Dream Team and we got them all in. Today I was doing ‘pacing’ with G4S. That means I get people through the
metal detectors asap. Four and a
half hours later, at 1pm, I was on
my lunch break with another girl after we were “Stood Down” for the rest of the day. Hideous lunch (food is so vile I have lost 2 lbs in 3 days *thimbs up*) followed by free
tennis! Hooray!
Elena Baltacha |
We went to see Venus Williams on Court 2. It was so sweet, she said she has never seen live tennis until today. Then we bumped into another of our
team and we went to see Heather Watson on Court 17 (she beat a Spanish player
called Soler). Then we wandered to
Court 18 (we weren't actually IN Court 18, we were on the balcony because it was
P.A.C.K.E.D after Laura Robson’s match). American readers, these are our Team GB
Ladies. We left after Elena
Baltacha (Team GB but actually a Scot/Russian mix) had lost the first set.
The weather was glorious today, the spectators were smiley
happy and today was good.
Shame I lost my jacket on the way home (it folds up like a
kagoule and clips onto your bag and mine kept dropping off. I think it is somewhere around Clapham
Junction so now I have to schlep back to Canning Town to get another on my day
off on Wednesday. Hope it doesn’t
rain or is cold tomorrow because I’ll have an uncomfortable day that’s for
sure).
More tennis, Sock Monkey? Oh yes please!
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