Surviving The Show

The lines for the women’s bathrooms are ridiculously long at this convention. Even the VIP area required a wait in the past. Other people bring strollers, but I’d rather not. Unfortunately, walking around carrying another person all day gets old. No one is supposed to sit on the floor or stairs, but there aren’t as many chairs as there are people. Here is how we all coped with trying to make ourselves comfortable... —MV

There’s no way to hang out in a bathroom stall and nurse a baby at NYCC, and I wasn’t keen on sitting on the floor anywhere to try, so I went to Babies ‘R’ Us at Union Square on Saturday. I did not take any pictures of there, so Sunday I got out at Times Square and stopped in at that Toys ‘R’ Us because it seemed more in line with NYCC even if their nursing station was a sketchy office on the upper floors.

Now that I had a baby in place of a press pass, I didn’t feel like asking people to pose. I chased after the comic book skirt, but I was bullied into asking the Storm Trooper by people who saw me take a picture of the back of the costume. Asking people in costume to pretend the camera isn’t there doesn’t usually work.