I'm not one to name names, but…
So you waited all year for San Diego Comic-Con, you bought your tickets the day after the previous year, you rented a hotel and flew all the way across the country. You have an iPhone app organizing all the panels you plan to attend and everything you want to do. So far, this is your week, everything's about you. But realistically, in a venue housing over 100,000 people, everything ISN'T about you and let's face it, you stink. Don't worry, you don't have to stink any longer, here's a few tips to make Comic-Con an enjoyable experience for everyone… not just you, you putrid, putrid man.
I'm a morning showerer myself, I know many of you out there like to come home and rinse the filth of the day off of you with a nice hot shower. It's ok, I can understand that, I mean, I can't start the day without one but I totally understand your perspective. What both morning and nighttime showeres can agree on is that it is completely unacceptable to skip a shower on a day when we are constantly active in a room crammed with nerds. You absolutely must take a shower every day of Con. Also, this shower must absolutely include washing of the hair. Hair, especially long hair and beards are essentially sponges that trap in the essence of filth. Without matted manes of neglected hair, the average hobo could potentially smell like the old spice guy.
Hey, Banshee, brush your teeth! You know how awkward it is when you're stuck in a line with someone inches from your face blabbing about picking up issue four of the Avengers (even though its obviously a Wizard reprint) and all you can focus on is your eyes watering due to the stench of rotting cabbage and Slim Jims coming from their mouth. Don't be that guy and don't let any of your friends be him. Take care of your lingering halitosis throughout the day as well. Think there's any possible chance that you could have bad breath? Toss in a breath mint to stay on the safe side! Do you treat Comic-Con as a chance to binge drink? Chew some gum, me!
Lastly, and most importantly… WEAR DEODORANT. Leaving the house to go wander a stuffy room without thousands of other people without remembering deodorant is completely unacceptable and should be grounds to have your badge taken away. How socially inept, stupid or selfish do you have to be to flat out not wear deodorant at Comic-Con. If putting on deodorant is not part of your daily routine as is, you need to immediately get a refund for next year's Comic-Con badge, hire a lifecoach and spend the next 365 days focusing on what went wrong on your life to allow you to live so many years as inept as you are. Shame on you, stinky fanboy. You have soiled the air of the world's greatest geek gathering by being too irresponsible to slather on some deodorant prior to leaving the house.
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