Initiation Ceremony

An ad in a local newspaper for an orientation session, which reads:

Doors will open

at 7:00 pm for 

registration and session

will begin at 7:30 pm 

sharp, at which time the

doors will be locked.

Late comers

will NOT

be accepted.

Now a co-op info session is not a rock concert where thousands of people attend and so being there on time might secure your entry.  There are not hundreds of people vying to be on a co-op waiting list.  Nevertheless, the ad is strict and to the point and one should get the gist of what living in a co-op is like given the tone of the ad.

Now if a latecomer were to knock on the locked door at 7:31 pm and the info session attendees blatantly ignore that knock, they will have each made the transition to being a valuable potential co-op member.

And that's the way it is done.