Convention Center Kabuki

[billroper]

The most entertaining part of move out at the Convention Center after Worldcon was the scheme that had been devised so that we didn't have to pay the nine dollar parking charge to bring our vehicles in to fill them with our stuff and then drive away. An LACon IV volunteer sat on a lawn chair outside the gate. As you pulled up, she'd hand you a blue parking pass. You would then drive to the gate, where the attendant would carefully scrutinize the pass while the volunteer walked to the other side of the gate. He would then raise the gate, you would drive through and hand the pass back to the volunteer, and she would go back to her lawn chair to wait for the next vehicle.

All wonderfully stylized and silly. Don't you just love bureaucratic regulations?

(That said, I was happy to avoid paying the nine dollars and am not complaining. I'm merely amused. :) )

Comments

Jeezus palomino...

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Didn't they have a loading dock for that sort of thing? Or was it not available for some reason (union regs, poor location, etc.)? Just wondering.

Re: Jeezus palomino...

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

They did, but you had to go through the parking lot to get to the loading dock and had to pay for the privilege.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Oh that's funny...particularly for those of us who didn't have to experience it. *grin*