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Oklacon report, MONDAY
15 years ago
Monday was, "omg get your shit and get out day!"
Trying to disassemble my tent and put it back in that tiny box was a comedy in itself, with the oklahoma wind screwing with me every time I needed something to stay still. I finally managed to get it all packed away, spent a few trips taking stuff to the car, and then I decided I didn't want to leave just yet. I found CutePuppy and asked if I could help out with cleaning up the park.
I got BATHROOM DUTY RAWR.
Now. I currently work for a bank as a CSR trainer, but before that I was a Crew Trainer for Taco Bell. I worked overnights at a 24 hour store, so i used to see all sorts of middle of the night nonsense in the bathrooms, from passed out drunks to poop in places where you would need a trampoline to reach.
Honestly, compared to that, the con bathrooms were not that bad. The female bathroom toilets I think were possesed, and one was REALLY BAD, but throw some bleach and pinesol around and hot water, and its not scary anymore.
Mens bathroom. >> Learn to take your underwear home. for real. In the shower drain is NOT an appropriate place for your undies!
It wasnt really hard, but it was long, because there was only like one drain, so trying to move all that water around was annoying, and the squeegee was so bootleg, it barely worked :( But I did manage to get it done. Took about two hours or so.
After that, I found HorsesGhost and we were tasked with putting out the campfire. Now, my thought process was, "well its fire, I can just dump some water on it and it'll go out." I went to the now SPARKLEY LIKE TWILIGHT VAMPIRES bathroom and filled a trash bucket with water, dragged it over to the fire and tipped the water in.
That fire EXPLODED. Like, water and steam was going everywhere and coals were flying, I must have looked like a tap dancer trying to avoid those sparks and coals flying everywhere. The water INSTANTLY boiled, and took on a primordial soup looking color, like something you'd see in some swamp horror movie. The others came back with more water, and by that time, all the water I'd poured onto it had evaporated off, and it was STILL hot.
About 6 trashcans full of water and a lot of cursing later, the stupid fire was finally out.
After that, I started to help Istanbul with moving the chairs from the Artists Alley A frame back to the tukey roost. About this time I discovered I'm really out of shape, because a few rounds of that and my body was like, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING". But got that done.
Finally, I helped out with moving the bunk beds and matresses back into the artist alley a frame. that was probably the easiest, but I was worn out after that. But a good few hours of hard work feels good after you're done.
I loaded up the rest of my crap, said bye to everyone and headed back out on the road. It was about this time that my car lighter decided to randomly break, so I couldn't charge my GPS.
Uh oh.
I still had the mapquest directions, so I just decided to say screw it, read the directions backwards, and two and a half hours later, I made it home.
My cat Mikey was so happy to see me, he couldn't decide if he wanted to jump on me or eat cat food, so he sorta did both at the same time, which made me laugh pretty hard. :)
tl;dr version: con was awesome, met some awesome people, no reason to even bring up the negative things, the very few there were.
END OF CON REPORT.
So, who's going to wild nights? :D:D:D
Trying to disassemble my tent and put it back in that tiny box was a comedy in itself, with the oklahoma wind screwing with me every time I needed something to stay still. I finally managed to get it all packed away, spent a few trips taking stuff to the car, and then I decided I didn't want to leave just yet. I found CutePuppy and asked if I could help out with cleaning up the park.
I got BATHROOM DUTY RAWR.
Now. I currently work for a bank as a CSR trainer, but before that I was a Crew Trainer for Taco Bell. I worked overnights at a 24 hour store, so i used to see all sorts of middle of the night nonsense in the bathrooms, from passed out drunks to poop in places where you would need a trampoline to reach.
Honestly, compared to that, the con bathrooms were not that bad. The female bathroom toilets I think were possesed, and one was REALLY BAD, but throw some bleach and pinesol around and hot water, and its not scary anymore.
Mens bathroom. >> Learn to take your underwear home. for real. In the shower drain is NOT an appropriate place for your undies!
It wasnt really hard, but it was long, because there was only like one drain, so trying to move all that water around was annoying, and the squeegee was so bootleg, it barely worked :( But I did manage to get it done. Took about two hours or so.
After that, I found HorsesGhost and we were tasked with putting out the campfire. Now, my thought process was, "well its fire, I can just dump some water on it and it'll go out." I went to the now SPARKLEY LIKE TWILIGHT VAMPIRES bathroom and filled a trash bucket with water, dragged it over to the fire and tipped the water in.
That fire EXPLODED. Like, water and steam was going everywhere and coals were flying, I must have looked like a tap dancer trying to avoid those sparks and coals flying everywhere. The water INSTANTLY boiled, and took on a primordial soup looking color, like something you'd see in some swamp horror movie. The others came back with more water, and by that time, all the water I'd poured onto it had evaporated off, and it was STILL hot.
About 6 trashcans full of water and a lot of cursing later, the stupid fire was finally out.
After that, I started to help Istanbul with moving the chairs from the Artists Alley A frame back to the tukey roost. About this time I discovered I'm really out of shape, because a few rounds of that and my body was like, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING". But got that done.
Finally, I helped out with moving the bunk beds and matresses back into the artist alley a frame. that was probably the easiest, but I was worn out after that. But a good few hours of hard work feels good after you're done.
I loaded up the rest of my crap, said bye to everyone and headed back out on the road. It was about this time that my car lighter decided to randomly break, so I couldn't charge my GPS.
Uh oh.
I still had the mapquest directions, so I just decided to say screw it, read the directions backwards, and two and a half hours later, I made it home.
My cat Mikey was so happy to see me, he couldn't decide if he wanted to jump on me or eat cat food, so he sorta did both at the same time, which made me laugh pretty hard. :)
tl;dr version: con was awesome, met some awesome people, no reason to even bring up the negative things, the very few there were.
END OF CON REPORT.
So, who's going to wild nights? :D:D:D
pan-pan
~pan-pan
so to put out a fire you want to use dirt and sand. it keeps oxygen from reaching the flames. and yes i will be at wyld nights :3
