There are Good People out there

While My son and I were in San Diego a  few weekes ago for Comic Con International I wrote a few blog articles.  Our internet access was intermittent so they will be posted over the next week or two:

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.