Anime Meetup Aftermath

I wish to thank everyone who showed up for the meetup, braving the cold and load shedding to come drink and social with like minded people. I got to meet loads of interesting people and I also managed to have a decent discussion with two blokes sitting next to me. (Yes I forgot your names but you know who you are.) And this is also the very first meetup that had other people joined us from 4 different local Anime forums, I hope to include all of the local Anime forums in the next meetup.

The load shedding was a bit of a annoyance as Scrooges used oil lamps for lighting and I kept kicking those lamps over with my size 11 boots, not to mention the smoke and fumes they generated got a bit much for some people. But lucky for us the power returned after 45 minutes thank god it didn’t last the scheduled 4 hours. And whoever was making the music selections at the jukebox after the power got restored should be shot, the volume level was a bit high at times so you could not hold down a conversation with the person next to you.

Other than that it went pretty smoothly my only worry was at the end of the meetup when it came down to paying the bill for each table and giving the waiters there 10-15% tip. But it seemed that my worries were unfounded as it pretty much worked it self out, the only problem was that some of the orders that were placed never got onto the bill at the end of the night. Or the items that were ordered was placed on a different tables bill, but I think that just boils down to the the waiters making mistakes. Not that I blame them taking 55 peoples orders and keep your cool is no mean feat.

LOL! for some arb reason the get together spot changed from in front of Animeworx, to the local ice cream parlor. I think the people who passed by either though the ice cream parlor made really good ice cream or that we were just some sort of weird flash mob.

And for a change everyone showed up early this time so instead of going to Scrooges at 19:00 we ended up all going at around 18:30. And since it was getting cold outside and the complete lack of light. (Due to load shedding by Eskom.) It was the right decision to make though, and everyone who came a bit later eventually found there way to Scrooges when they did not notice us in front of Animeworx.

The original booking was for 50 people but I increased it to 60 due to the demand, but in the end we ended up being 55 people in total still not bad. But I am a bit miffed at the people who did not show as there were other people who would have loved to

The Nintendo DS fanboys where out in full force at the meetup, there where a bunch of confused looking PSP owners who brought there PSP’s along but they actually never got to play on them. LOL!

And of course there was as always some creative souls who found creative ways of using the paper and crayons to draw there art on the Scrooges tables.