Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
If you want "seriously wierd", go to a "Doctor Who" con. They make Trek Cons look mundane. Seriously. I have some friends who generally have a dealer's table at all the major cons here in the UK, both lit and media ones. They have two teenage children they take to all the cons except the DW ones; they say that there are just too many strange characters there for them to feel comfortable having their kids wandering around on their own there.
|
<Raised eyebrows>
They've got teenage kids they take everywhere save DW cons? Must be some
seriously weird characters there. I'd have thought the kids would have a pretty good idea of how to handle themselves by this point.
Over here, SF cons tend to be remarkably safe. Most attendees consider themselves in loco parentis for any kids. I recall a youngster at a con a few years back with his parents talking to another kid, and complaining "This is no fun! There's too many
Mommies here!"
Quote:
|
I generally attend the "Eastercons" here in the UK (although didn't make this year's, unfortunately); that might be another good place for an MR "get-together".
|
I think it would be. You might drop a note to the con organizers next time around suggesting ebook related programing.
______
Dennis