The Con III : Partners in Awesome
Wrapping up my adventures at the San Diego Comic Con with John.So on Sunday morning, John and I checked out of the hotel, then stopped at Denny's for some food, as there just wasn’t a lot of breakfast places around there. I haven’t been to Denny’s in a long time, and after my experience at this one, I can safely say I won’t be back there again anytime soon. Here’s what happened: I had ordered a 3-stack of pancakes and was taking my time buttering them when, upon raising the top two to get to the bottom one, was surprised to see half of it was missing. I couldn’t tell if it had been half eaten or if I had just gotten a mutant flapjack or if half had been torn off on the griddle or what. Regardless, it was disconcerting, so I called the waitress over:
Me: Excuse me, but (holding up the half-pancake), I’m not sure if this is someone’s leftovers or what but…
Waitress: Oh, (taking it and throwing it away) I’ll get you another one, don’t worry about it.
I wait patiently for a minute as she goes to the kitchen and comes back. John, meanwhile, is finding this whole exchange hysterical.
Me: (getting her attention, then pointing to the two pancakes left) Yeah, I'm probably not going to eat these so…
Waitress: (cutting me off, suddenly realizing) …why don’t I get you a whole new order.
John and I would be recalling this repeatedly over the drive home to much laughter, which made the whole Denny’s trip worth it.
We got back to L.A. around 4:30pm, I think. Just in time too, ‘cuz I had a callback for a Honda commercial soon after which I totally nailed and was sure I booked, but found out a couple days later that I hadn’t. After the audition in W. Hollywood I had to motor over to my parent’s house in the Valley for my niece’s birthday celebration. By the time I got back home that night I was completely exhausted and had no problems falling asleep and pretty much stayed asleep (which is rare) until my alarm clock woke me for work the next morning. I still don’t think I’ve quite recovered.
In the end, we got some feedback, some interest, and our proposal into the hands of some cool people. There’s still a bit of work I need to do before we formally send our full proposal out to the contacts we’ve made, but I should be able to get that done in the next week or two. Hopefully, if we make the trip again next year, it will be as industry professionals. Despite the crowds and overwhelming size of the convention, I had a lot of fun. Sometimes I can’t hang for too long with some of my friends, as we get tired and cranky of each other after a while, but hanging with John was a total blast the entire time. If that makes us “partners”, then so be it.
But I swear we didn’t share the bed.
1 Comments:
I concur!! Especially about the bed
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