Morrus' Gen Con Report

[Malicene]

Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong

Many Thanks to Mr Murphy !

 

[Bagpuss]

Great report Morrus, on the shame you had to spend half a day in a queue of some form, but on the plus side that seems to be required for the full GenCon experience this year.

 

[Chris_Nightwing]

Sounds like you had a great time.

And honestly some Americans eh? You should have given the girl the number to This Morning or something. Now that would have surprised her. As a victim of many tourists, I can see how alien they all were .

And next time you have trouble at an airport, just get a cheap camera out, tell them it is digital and you are recording. It gets things sorted amazingly fast.

 

[Celtavian]

re

she told us that she was fascinated by all this "other country" stuff and would love to visit England but she thought that learning a new language would be a little difficult; her colleague nudged her politely and pointed out that the English speak... err... English.

Straight out of a movie....ROFLMAO. I was rolling after reading this, unbelievable.

Glad you had fun overall. Hopefully next time your travel will be better and they won't have so many problems with registration at GenCon.

 

[kkoie]

I just wanted to chime in and say that not everyone in Indianapolis are morons when it comes to Englands location and choice of language

 

[Piratecat]

Didn't people, and the girl who tried to get your number in particular, recognise your accent as not-American? Or do you fake an American accent like I 'fake' my English accent?

He always pretends that he's from Texas; don't ask me why. But the cowboy hat and boots - and the lariat - get to be a bit much.

 

[Henry]

Russ, I knew about the luggage, but I had no idea about the other insanity...

I'm sorry to hear it, though I am glad you and Jane are back and in one piece!

 

[Barak]

Well, you can easily find americans with little knowledge of geography. I once argued for about 15 minutes with a girl that, no, I wasn't american, I was from Montreal. But she was convinced Montreal was in the states. Finally I told her she was right.

Considering the luggage issue, maybe it -was- a good thing they didn't mail the badges to him. They very well might have been -in- the luggage, which probably would have made things even worse..

About the ID.. I usually show them some sort of ID from Canada. They get all confused, and let me in in fear of getting a headache. I'm sure a library card from England would have worked. I once got in with a card from a Video Store.

 

[JeffB]

So when do we see the new Cowboy Morrus counter from FDP?

 

[diaglo]

Well, you can easily find americans with little knowledge of geography.

it works in reverse too. i take a trip to England (cuz i have family there) at least once every 3 years.

i love it when i meet people there. they say, "You're from the US. Where?" i reply GA. and then they go on about visiting me and renting a car to visit the Grand Canyon.

edit: to stay on topic. i'm sorry i didn't get to meet you, Morrus.