Animazement 2023 – page 3
Okay, it was more just a matter of one person carrying the Tarako down some stairs so that another person could pick it up in the living room, but even that was a LOT of coordinating by my reclusive standards. And it was just compounded by the embarrassment of forgetting the thing at home in the first place. HOW ON EARTH DO YOU FORGET THIS?!?!?
Oh, and to anybody who remembers that one time in 2018 and wonders why I couldn’t just go back home and pick the dumb thing up for myself, that’d be because we hadn’t actually paid yet when we turned around and went right back home. I actually had made it into the lot and paid the fee this time, and I’d have to pay AGAIN if I left and tried to come back. Parking was up to $10 this year, I ain’t about to cough that up twice in one day.
Also, insert foreshadowing for the comic on the actual Awesomely Bad panel HERE.
Forgetting it is simple. You try to put the horrific ever-present baby-monster out of your mind whenever possible, and only give it minimal attention when necessary, namely when you’re going to Con’s. Then you put it out of your mind again as it’s with you when going to the Con, and don’t think about the Awesomely Bad Panel until you’re at the Con itself, resulting in you leaving the prop you only need for a single day behind on the singular day you need it.
TL:DR – Simple. You only need it for one day, so you just repeat what you would do for all the other days and ignore that today’s the day you need it.
It’s more the fact that my having to rope other people into solving ANY issue automatically amplifies my perception of it’s magnitude. If I actually could have left the parking lot and just got the thing myself, it’d barely have warranted a mention in the comic at all. But because I had to frantically start hurling texts at people to try and catch them before they were either on the road or busy with other stuff, it registered as a WAY bigger mistake on my part.
vote incentive scribbles agrees wholeheartedly with today’s hovertext! 😉
Hey yeah! Look at that synchronicity!