What are the odds of losing something in place crowded with
130,000 people and being able to find it?
Better yet have someone else find it and turn it in to the lost and
found? And what if this item is a highly sought after commodity.
On our first night here in San Diego Comic Con, we made a
purchase that was awkward to carry, so we decided to bring it back to our hotel
room and then return to the convention floor.
Our hotel is a few blocks away but we hoofed it in order to get back
before the con closed for the night.
While in our room, my son noticed that his ID credentials were missing
from the lanyard around his neck.
Because of the sheer volume of people, you can't even enter
the convention center building without your credentials. We rushed back to the convention center, my
son waited outside the building and I tried to retrace our path. When that proved to be a dead end, I was
directed to the lost and found. Now we
all know that lost things rarely wind up in the lost and found, but it was
worth a try, if nothing else they could direct us how to possibly get him new
credentials.
I have failed to mention the value of the credentials, SDCC
is sold out a year in advance, passes go for $175.00 (the monetary value is not
the issue), and photo ID is required to pick up your passes along with a secure
individual bar code that was issued several months ago. To the uninitiated it is difficult to
understand, but these tags are the holy grail of geekdom. They allow you access to a world unlike any
other, one they consider home.
Alas there are good people about there. I went to the lost and found, told them that
my son had lost his credentials, they asked me his name. They had his badge, someone had turned it in,
YAY!!! But they wouldn't give it to
me. He would have to show ID in order to
get it back, ah, here is the catch 22, without his badge he can't get into the
building and without getting in to the building how can he show them his
ID? One of the staffers was nice enough
to walk to the door where he was to check his driver’s license and give him
back his credentials.
We are back in, thank you kind stranger for returning this
valuable commodity.
