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TFF 2014, the elevator, and HUMANS.
12 years ago
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So I had a bitchin' (haha see what I did there?) time at TFF 2014. Saw my friends, got drunk, and got some awesome merch. I even bought my coworker an awesome Derpy shirt! I will not be like so many others and bitch about all the crap that went wrong with the parking, escalators, elevators, stupid hotel staff and people acting stupid. Instead, I will tell you about Sunday night when I encountered humans in the elevator.
Now, I had to work on Sunday so I had immeadiately left my job and came back to the con to get my man. When I work, I try to have a level of professionalism in my attire because if I don't people think I'm just a cashier which will not do. So here I am, dressed in nice slacks, a nice green sweater, and satiny 3/4 sleeve black jacket, hair down and nicely styled, with full work time make up in effect. I need to go up the elevator in order to find my man, and apparently another convention is beginning to arrive for another thing. So I get on this elevator with these three people and they start making a conversation, and they ask me if I'm from AT&T, and I say "No I'm not." And the look on these people's faces was just priceless, because the next words out of their mouths are "You're not here for the furry thing are you???" And I just smile a little and say "Why yes I am, in fact." They ask me "Where's your costume." "Well I have a job that I needed to be at today, so no costume." "Oh are you on your way to your room to put it on." "No, I'm on my way to go retrieve my boyfriend." "What animal are you?" "Doberman." "Your boyfriend?" "Fox." "Oh so a little Fox and the Hound thing going on?" At this point I'm tired of the stupid questions. And thank god the elevator dings, and when the door opens, I turn and quickly say, "Have a good time at your conference." And booked it out of the damn elevator.
Just the level of surprise that they had that someone at this thing had fucking job, and could look like a "normal" person, and professional just fucking astounded me. It was like I was some sort of weird anomaly that they wanted to study. Of course, being a lady I did not say "You got a fucking problem with that dipshit?" When they looked like they had found the only one of us who looked like she should be one of them.
Just fucking astounds me.
Did you have a good time at TFF? If you did, let me know!
Were you there? Let me know!
If I didn;t see you, then next year we will have to have lots of hugs!
The End.
Now, I had to work on Sunday so I had immeadiately left my job and came back to the con to get my man. When I work, I try to have a level of professionalism in my attire because if I don't people think I'm just a cashier which will not do. So here I am, dressed in nice slacks, a nice green sweater, and satiny 3/4 sleeve black jacket, hair down and nicely styled, with full work time make up in effect. I need to go up the elevator in order to find my man, and apparently another convention is beginning to arrive for another thing. So I get on this elevator with these three people and they start making a conversation, and they ask me if I'm from AT&T, and I say "No I'm not." And the look on these people's faces was just priceless, because the next words out of their mouths are "You're not here for the furry thing are you???" And I just smile a little and say "Why yes I am, in fact." They ask me "Where's your costume." "Well I have a job that I needed to be at today, so no costume." "Oh are you on your way to your room to put it on." "No, I'm on my way to go retrieve my boyfriend." "What animal are you?" "Doberman." "Your boyfriend?" "Fox." "Oh so a little Fox and the Hound thing going on?" At this point I'm tired of the stupid questions. And thank god the elevator dings, and when the door opens, I turn and quickly say, "Have a good time at your conference." And booked it out of the damn elevator.
Just the level of surprise that they had that someone at this thing had fucking job, and could look like a "normal" person, and professional just fucking astounded me. It was like I was some sort of weird anomaly that they wanted to study. Of course, being a lady I did not say "You got a fucking problem with that dipshit?" When they looked like they had found the only one of us who looked like she should be one of them.
Just fucking astounds me.
Did you have a good time at TFF? If you did, let me know!
Were you there? Let me know!
If I didn;t see you, then next year we will have to have lots of hugs!
The End.
'Respectable' people in the fandom are a lot more common than most ongoers know; firemen, cops, lawyers, military, tech, scientists...the list goes on. I wouldn't worry so much about it. :)