<p>I still remember that I waited for 6 hours to get DD into her private pre-school in the bay area because it was first come first serve. The wait grew to 18 hours during the peak of dot com era.</p>
<p>My younger daughters CO-OP preschool was like that- because it was run through the community colleges & they had about 12 in our area of the city & everyone had to go at the same time to get signed up for the one they wanted.
So dumb.</p>
<p>I don’t think we waited for 6 hrs, but I think registration started at 8 & it was well known you had to get there a couple hours early, so we got there at 6am & there was already a line.
( however, I made a lifelong friend. 
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