I've never been to a convention. I'm not sure I ever had any idea what I would do at one. My ATPo friend Cheryl used to go to the Phoenix convention every year during those years you said you might have have thought about going to conventions. Since then she said she felt she was getting out of place among all the college aged kids. I asked her what she did at the conventions and she couldn't exactly explain. She loves autographs, but wouldn't get them at conventions because they charged for the signing sessions and she didn't want autographs she had to pay for. She really liked Christian Kane, who played Lindsey, on Angel and went to see his band play, no doubt went to any panel he happened to be on at the Phoenix convention he came to...
I've had mixed experiences meeting famous people. I met a guy, a poet who won a Nobel Prize for literature about a decade after I met him. He came off as a prize jerk. His poetry was in fact very good, but beyond his offensive behavior, the manner he insisted on reciting all poetry not just his own, bordered on being ridiculous... I had a chance meeting at a store with a young up-coming politician in Ohio, who got all puffed up when he realized I recognized who he was... I was at a symphony concert when I noticed my Congressman (this one from Missouri) sitting nearby. It was a pretty blah concert. It got a lot of polite applause when it was over. The Congressman however lept to his feet (the only person I saw in a crowd of thousands that evening do that) clapping wildly. I thought either he hasn't been to many symphony concerts or he just wants everybody to see him... I saw a famous baseball player at an airport. At that point he was retired and that day it was clear he was interviewing for a managing job with the local minor league team. I was sitting at the end of a walkway and he was coming directly toward me. I gave him a big grin and seeing I wasn't going to bother him, he courteously nodded to me and went on his way. I thought there goes a really nice guy. He later successfully managed the Yankees... Some famous people are jerks, some are glory hounds and some are just decent people. I don't go out of my way to bother them, or try to inflate their egos.
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I've had mixed experiences meeting famous people. I met a guy, a poet who won a Nobel Prize for literature about a decade after I met him. He came off as a prize jerk. His poetry was in fact very good, but beyond his offensive behavior, the manner he insisted on reciting all poetry not just his own, bordered on being ridiculous... I had a chance meeting at a store with a young up-coming politician in Ohio, who got all puffed up when he realized I recognized who he was... I was at a symphony concert when I noticed my Congressman (this one from Missouri) sitting nearby. It was a pretty blah concert. It got a lot of polite applause when it was over. The Congressman however lept to his feet (the only person I saw in a crowd of thousands that evening do that) clapping wildly. I thought either he hasn't been to many symphony concerts or he just wants everybody to see him... I saw a famous baseball player at an airport. At that point he was retired and that day it was clear he was interviewing for a managing job with the local minor league team. I was sitting at the end of a walkway and he was coming directly toward me. I gave him a big grin and seeing I wasn't going to bother him, he courteously nodded to me and went on his way. I thought there goes a really nice guy. He later successfully managed the Yankees... Some famous people are jerks, some are glory hounds and some are just decent people. I don't go out of my way to bother them, or try to inflate their egos.