[chainedbyroses]

mindue, on 07 March 2012 - 07:01 PM, said:

I think that Acen can't bring in outside food due to a contract or something.

Hotel/con center contracts & union deal stuff means absolutely nothing with food is on the table (no pun intended).

[Kasumisty]

Smokey said:

Like I said before, once we verify the need, we can work with you.

What would qualify, you ask? If you're carrying a huge backpack and your medical supplies consists of a small pill container that can just as easily fit in your pocket, that would be way into the "trying to use it to gain special privilege" end of the scale, and a pass will not be issued.

What if you don't have pockets, though? Do you know how often womens clothing doesn't come with pockets? Excluding jackets and hoodies most of my clothes don't have pockets, and if there are pockets (like in some jeans) they are too small to fit anything at all bulky, like a pill bottle.

This post has been edited by Kasumisty: 19 April 2012 - 11:31 PM

[chainedbyroses]

Kasumisty, on 19 April 2012 - 11:31 PM, said:

What if you don't have pockets, though? Do you know how often womens clothing doesn't come with pockets? Excluding jackets and hoodies most of my clothes don't have pockets, and if there are pockets (like in some jeans) they are too small to fit anything at all bulky, like a pill bottle.

That reply was more a response to trying to get a pass for a giant backpack when all your ADA needs are like a small single pack of pills. In the past people have abused this to get their bags in to events (a number of unsavory girl incidents I encountered & reported having witnessed in the ladies' room, sadly.), so the point here was really just to keep a reasonable sized bag in proportion to what you need to carry (for a better example, using a moving truck to transport a lone pillow would be silly when it could just ride in the car, or car's trunk, with you. Sorry if this example sucks though!).

If you have no pockets and don't have a ridiculously jumbo bag as tall as you that you want the pass for, you should be just fine. My purse is an over the shoulder small (~16"x~12") vertical messenger bag (one of the 2008 style BeKyoot brand bags), and between an emergency inhaler, anti-allergic reaction meds, non-latex bandages, and daily medication, I have had no problem with my bag size, for what it's worth.

[Kasumisty]

Thanks for the clarifications! I don't carry huge bags anyway, my back can't handle the weight. I do need to have a bottle of water or something however to take my pills with so would it be acceptable to have a bag/purse large enough to fit that? I mean that's the biggest thing that I would be carrying, and my normal purse is a bit too small to hold one so I might have to use something a little bigger.

[chainedbyroses]

Kasumisty, on 20 April 2012 - 01:09 PM, said:

Thanks for the clarifications! :) I don't carry huge bags anyway, my back can't handle the weight. I do need to have a bottle of water or something however to take my pills with so would it be acceptable to have a bag/purse large enough to fit that? I mean that's the biggest thing that I would be carrying, and my normal purse is a bit too small to hold one so I might have to use something a little bigger.

Seeing as most of the wallets the world sells to females are practically the size of water bottles anyway, and "small purses" generally can fit a small dog in them, a plain old "run of the mill" purse (**or for the more gaming/less purse-y crowd, a NOT-ridiculously-big-enough-to-hold-a-Wii-PS3-and-360-all-at-once sized messenger bag**) shouldn't be a problem. I used an Inuyasha (lolshushpeople) standard-size messenger bag from the vendor's hall for my first couple years without a problem, so I'd imagine bags that size and smaller shouldn't be an issue especially considering small bags don't exist.

If you forget to refill your bottle, or if for any other reason are empty or whatever, the larger events/rooms generally have water coolers in them, such as the Video Gaming's arcade, certain main events in past years, as well as the dances (before they run out at least). If you need to find out for sure, I'm sure someone on ADA or Con Ops should be able to tell you who's slotted to have a cooler where/when.

I hope everything works out well for you!

[rondo]

Prolly should prune this and make it for 2013, putting 2012 in the archive locker.

[Jguy]

Hi all,

Please direct your suggestions for ACen 2013 to this thread: http://www.acen.org/...-for-acen-2013/

This one will be closed and archived with the 2012 stuff.

Thanks!