I had decided to go meet Kevin Smith at a signing he was doing in Chicago. I booked the room for me and my friends. My sister was flying in from Minneapolis to meet us for the signing.
The day of the show we pick my sis up from the airport and make our way to the convention center. As we alk onto the floor of the center. (it is 40 minutes after opening) WE suddnely hear annonced over the loud speakers that anyone who wants Kevin Smiths autograph should make their way to the side banquet rooms. So happily we bound off to meet the man who made us pee ourselves repeatedly with Clerks. The line is huge. And as we make our way towards the back of it we cross this guy holding a sign that reads " i am the last person in ine!" yet the line continues and so do we. We finally get to the end where a volunteer is standing. he is telling people they can't get in line because there are too many people all ready. Dejected i walk off. As me and my friend discuss how fucked up all of this is being run, we turn around to find my sister and girlfriend of the time are gone. We start to walk towards the back of the line (the last place we saw them) and get to about 30 people in front of the guy who has the sign stating he is the end of the line. Here are the ladies standing flirting with this guy in line.. My buddy and I join them in line (but not in the flirting). And bang we are in line to meet Kevin Smith.
We wait in line about an hour and a half, when this kid starts to walk down the line. he has a flat top and dyed into it is the superman symbol, this is Phil. He is telling all the poeple behind the guy with the sign that there is no guarentee they will get a signature. At this time i notice Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes awaling outside for a smoke. So I join them. Because smoke is good. They are laughing at how mismanaged all of it is and that they are hungry. they go back into the center and continue the signing and i join back into the line.
At this point Phil is telling people they can not take pictures because they take to long. My sister asks phil if we are guarenteed an autograph. Phil says of course you are you are in the lne. We wait longer and eventually phil comes back. he tells everyone who is farther back than us tthat there is no guarentee that they will get an autograph. My sister asks phil again if we are cool and phil assures us we are. At this point they open a line for people who want to sit in on a q&a for kevin smith. the line fills in under a minute to over a hundred people even thought the hall only seats 60 people.
Phil comes down the line and announces Kevin will sign until 1:45 and then he has to go and get to the speaking engagemnt. I look at the line it is about 1:10 now and we are about 15 people from the signing. At 1:15 Phil announces the line is closed and Kevin is done signing.
All that story for this moment.
My sister explodes. WE have waited in line for 2 plus hours and were promised a signature and now they are fucking us over. She threatens to kill phil, She says she will dye the carpet with his blood. She is enraged and screaming. Fuck you. Fuck them. Fuck this. She is screaming as loud as she can and is not tkaing prisoners. I notice at this time the ever eclosing circle of cops and security people closing in. they all have pepper spray and cuffs out. So as i begin to prepare myself for being sprayed and wonder who will bail our sorry asses out. (the cops are at arms length by now)
they are beginning to reach for my sister and boom Kevin Smith pokes his head in. My sister begins to cry and tells him all she wanted was his autograph, and phil ucked her in line and all of it pours out. Kevin gives her hug and tells her it will be ok. His publicist id trying to haul him away but kevin will have nothing to do with it. He tell the people running the event to let my sister into the line for q&a. they say now way the line is already closed. So Kevin aranges for us all to be backstage at the q&a and when the crowds start to come in we can walk in and sit with the press people.
So off we go Kevin smith signatures in hand. to sit backstage. We see Kevin and Jay walinkg the other direction. I hollar out "Thank you Mr. Smith!" I hear JAson Mewes chucle out, "he calle you Mr. Smith...you're old!" At this point I also shout out, "Thank you too Mr. Mewes!" Kevin laughed and made an inaudible commetnt to Jason.
AND THAT is the sotory of how Kevin SMith kept me out of Jail and doug just watched in amusment
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The day of the show we pick my sis up from the airport and make our way to the convention center. As we alk onto the floor of the center. (it is 40 minutes after opening) WE suddnely hear annonced over the loud speakers that anyone who wants Kevin Smiths autograph should make their way to the side banquet rooms. So happily we bound off to meet the man who made us pee ourselves repeatedly with Clerks. The line is huge. And as we make our way towards the back of it we cross this guy holding a sign that reads " i am the last person in ine!" yet the line continues and so do we. We finally get to the end where a volunteer is standing. he is telling people they can't get in line because there are too many people all ready. Dejected i walk off. As me and my friend discuss how fucked up all of this is being run, we turn around to find my sister and girlfriend of the time are gone. We start to walk towards the back of the line (the last place we saw them) and get to about 30 people in front of the guy who has the sign stating he is the end of the line. Here are the ladies standing flirting with this guy in line.. My buddy and I join them in line (but not in the flirting). And bang we are in line to meet Kevin Smith.
We wait in line about an hour and a half, when this kid starts to walk down the line. he has a flat top and dyed into it is the superman symbol, this is Phil. He is telling all the poeple behind the guy with the sign that there is no guarentee they will get a signature. At this time i notice Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes awaling outside for a smoke. So I join them. Because smoke is good. They are laughing at how mismanaged all of it is and that they are hungry. they go back into the center and continue the signing and i join back into the line.
At this point Phil is telling people they can not take pictures because they take to long. My sister asks phil if we are guarenteed an autograph. Phil says of course you are you are in the lne. We wait longer and eventually phil comes back. he tells everyone who is farther back than us tthat there is no guarentee that they will get an autograph. My sister asks phil again if we are cool and phil assures us we are. At this point they open a line for people who want to sit in on a q&a for kevin smith. the line fills in under a minute to over a hundred people even thought the hall only seats 60 people.
Phil comes down the line and announces Kevin will sign until 1:45 and then he has to go and get to the speaking engagemnt. I look at the line it is about 1:10 now and we are about 15 people from the signing. At 1:15 Phil announces the line is closed and Kevin is done signing.
All that story for this moment.
My sister explodes. WE have waited in line for 2 plus hours and were promised a signature and now they are fucking us over. She threatens to kill phil, She says she will dye the carpet with his blood. She is enraged and screaming. Fuck you. Fuck them. Fuck this. She is screaming as loud as she can and is not tkaing prisoners. I notice at this time the ever eclosing circle of cops and security people closing in. they all have pepper spray and cuffs out. So as i begin to prepare myself for being sprayed and wonder who will bail our sorry asses out. (the cops are at arms length by now)
they are beginning to reach for my sister and boom Kevin Smith pokes his head in. My sister begins to cry and tells him all she wanted was his autograph, and phil ucked her in line and all of it pours out. Kevin gives her hug and tells her it will be ok. His publicist id trying to haul him away but kevin will have nothing to do with it. He tell the people running the event to let my sister into the line for q&a. they say now way the line is already closed. So Kevin aranges for us all to be backstage at the q&a and when the crowds start to come in we can walk in and sit with the press people.
So off we go Kevin smith signatures in hand. to sit backstage. We see Kevin and Jay walinkg the other direction. I hollar out "Thank you Mr. Smith!" I hear JAson Mewes chucle out, "he calle you Mr. Smith...you're old!" At this point I also shout out, "Thank you too Mr. Mewes!" Kevin laughed and made an inaudible commetnt to Jason.
AND THAT is the sotory of how Kevin SMith kept me out of Jail and doug just watched in amusment
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and you know what i just realized, kind of an odd coincidence, the shirt i'm wearing in my profile pic, was purchased at that convention. crazy.