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Disturbance at the Game Room of IFC 2015
10 years ago
It was a minor thing and probably most people who were there have already forgotten, and I know it's been a few months but it's been bothering me. I want to apologize to anyone who was discomforted by the argument and discussion that briefly caused a problem in the video game room at IFC - I think it was Saturday evening.
I can't speak for the others who were there, but for myself I was a bit at loose ends from just having left my job and my community to move from Indiana to Pennsylvania and I was desperately missing some of the conversations I used to have with my coworkers back there. The conversation we were having was a poor replacement, but it was the best I'd gotten for a few weeks. If I'd been in my normal frame of mind at a con then I wouldn't have even started talking to them and I certainly would have walked out rather than stayed past the first person asking us to leave. I know I wasn't the principle instigator and I doubt things would have gone much differently had I left, but I still feel bad. I might have also expressed myself clumsily in my attempt to scold the principle of the disturbance and in doing so accidentally made it sound as if I was agreeing with him. My point was not that he was superior and so should exercise restraint but that IF HIS CLAIM WAS TRUE and he had as much influence as he said he did - even at the time I thought he was sorely mistaken and now I'm sure of it - then his behavior would be even more out of line than it already was.
Like I said, I doubt it's crossing other peoples' minds now and even more I suspect I won't reach the people I'd like to apologize for, but I wanted to put it out there. Especially to the young lady who asked us to leave the first time. The worst part is that I almost never talk to that guy because I know it's all going to go wrong, but I was lonely and got pulled in. I hope it didn't ruin your evening at the con, and if I see you in person, I'd like to make it up to you.
I can't speak for the others who were there, but for myself I was a bit at loose ends from just having left my job and my community to move from Indiana to Pennsylvania and I was desperately missing some of the conversations I used to have with my coworkers back there. The conversation we were having was a poor replacement, but it was the best I'd gotten for a few weeks. If I'd been in my normal frame of mind at a con then I wouldn't have even started talking to them and I certainly would have walked out rather than stayed past the first person asking us to leave. I know I wasn't the principle instigator and I doubt things would have gone much differently had I left, but I still feel bad. I might have also expressed myself clumsily in my attempt to scold the principle of the disturbance and in doing so accidentally made it sound as if I was agreeing with him. My point was not that he was superior and so should exercise restraint but that IF HIS CLAIM WAS TRUE and he had as much influence as he said he did - even at the time I thought he was sorely mistaken and now I'm sure of it - then his behavior would be even more out of line than it already was.
Like I said, I doubt it's crossing other peoples' minds now and even more I suspect I won't reach the people I'd like to apologize for, but I wanted to put it out there. Especially to the young lady who asked us to leave the first time. The worst part is that I almost never talk to that guy because I know it's all going to go wrong, but I was lonely and got pulled in. I hope it didn't ruin your evening at the con, and if I see you in person, I'd like to make it up to you.
