Would you like to help us with Rugby Parking?

New stewards are always welcome!!

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6.5 reasons to volunteer as an OPSA rugby parking volunteer

Saturday was my first ever appearance as a rugby parking volunteer, standing in for my other half who was unavoidably detained on a drinking - sorry - business trip. Exhausted by 9 days of single parenthood, I requested a totally no-brain job. This consisted of collecting the money, handing drivers a map and saying in what I hoped was an authoritative voice 'Please note we close at 7pm SHARP'. Having managed this without a hitch for 90 minutes I can now say with confidence that helping with rugby parking has a number of benefits - some rather unexpected:

• you get to chat to lots of nice Orleans Park parents
• you get to banter with lots of handsome young Welshmen (who make up a high percentage of the crowd at any match)
• you get time to think in the gaps between chatting and cars arriving
• everyone is very nice to you as they are so grateful to have arrived at the right place
• you get to to do what those blokes on cross-channel ferries do to you, such as pointing imperiously to very small parking spaces and suddenly holding up your hand for them to do an emergency stop
• you wear a fluorescent tabard
• you get a very nice warm feeling raising money for the school
• ... and you get a nice email thanking you afterwards.

So if you've been hestitating, give it a go!

Hilary Thomson (mother of Owen, Y10 and Carys Y7