[Jessica Boucher]

First of all, I'm sorry you had that experience. In the future, you should speak to a planning committee member and ask to speak to the Volunteer Coordinator. There's many ways they could handle the issue, including filing a Non Medical Incident Report, which gets handled by HQ after the event.

I'm surprised that you had flip flops on in the pit, more than anything. If the volunteer wouldn't let you back in because of the safety issue, that would make sense, but I agree the angle the volunteer took was not the best one.