Otakon 2008 – page 1
Absolutely what happened on Thursday. Seriously, it boggled my mind how little time it took to get filthy. And I’m one of the ones who actually makes a serious effort NOT to reek!
(Historical Note: It helps if you understand that I was trying to find an ATM in the dark, prehistoric days before I had a smartphone, and thus spent a good chunk of that afternoon getting DANGEROUSLY lost in downtown Baltimore. And then I neeeeeeeever spent the day before a con wandering all over a city on foot ever again. Yup! That’s totally what happened!)
I found your comic earlier today while I was at work and this set of comics brought back memories. I forgot about the rain, but I remembered my friend and I having so much fun waiting in line to pick up our badges. My dad kept calling Otakon “Geekfest”, my mom wanted to cosplay, and my friend and I were so excited to go to our first (and ended up being our only) anime convention. That super long “special needs” line wasn’t fun, though. We were sent to that line because three people paid for my friend’s con badge and we had to go in that line to get one of her memberships changed to her cousin’s name. Three hours in that line!
As an Arizonan this is so, so, so very relatable whether convention time or not. Our seasons are, Cool-to-us-refuge-from-the-snow-for-Northerners, Warm, Hot, and OMG EVEN THE SHADE BURNS GO BACK INSIDE!
Add 150% humidity to that equation and you get Florida! 😀