Edmonton dumb and stupid club

Last night, several team members, Garrett and I went to the bar-hosted Wrap-Up Party for the association that runs our dodgeball league - the Edmonton Sport and Social Club (ESSC). As you may recall, 'Je Dodge Bien' won first place in our dodgeball division, and as league champs, we were to receive free T-shirts saying so. However, we HAD to go to the party last night in order to get them. So, despite the fact that I was stressing about my exam next week, we saddled up and headed to the party. It wasn't all bad; pints and burgers were pretty cheap, but we didn't get there early enough to have a table with chairs - instead, we stood around a tall table to eat and drink. Not the end of the world, but not the most relaxing. The most irritating part of the evening, however, was the program the ESSC put on while we were at the bar. They started around 7:30pm, and had several draws for free prizes. I'm all for wining free stuff, however one of the guys doing the announcing over the microphone/speaker system thought he was way funnier than he actually was. He only got worse as the night went on as well, because as they started announcing the league champs from each night, division and sport, he thought it was a great idea to ask them mind-numbing questions like 'If a highschool student came up to you and asked you what it takes to win the Sunday night recreational hockey division, what would you say?". Not only did we not care, but people didn't have interesting answers, you couldn't understand them and he was making the program run way longer than it needed to. With all the general bar noise, you often could make out little more than an vague buzz over the speakers. Pretty annoying.

The finale to this stellar night was the fact that they ended their program and had not announced 'Je Dodge Bien' as a league champ. What the...?

At this point, I was annoyed, congested (from allergies or cold, whichever I might have**), tired and angry!! Where were our shirts? That was the ONLY reason we went there! We stood there for 2 and a half hours, suffering through the poorly organized program in order to get our shirts, and they had forgotten us! I went up and talked to the people running the show:
'Oh no, there seems to have been a mistake.' That's what they said. No kidding.
So, after letting them know I was pretty annoyed and giving them my contact info so they could correct their error, we left the bar significantly less happy then when we got there.

Tonight I emailed the ESSC to find out what they are doing to get us our shirts. I think they should have to mail them to me, because there's no way I'm going to pick them up again.

**It turns out I may not have allergies already - antihistamines weren't working for me, so I took some cold medicine instead and it got a little better...so based on this evidence, I don't really know what I have but I'm leaning towards cold.