So damn my experience with Dante Basco is the metaphor of my life. I’ll start from the beginning. We were planning on going to an anime convention, sort of like me and my friends’ past time and we haven’t been in awhile. But then we were planning on not going because our other friend was going to be working and we wanted them to drive so we were like nvm. But then another friend brought up the idea of going and so first friend was like oh yeah let’s go. So it’s like wtf? We’re not going because you couldn't go, now you're wiling to ditch work for them but not us. Anyways after intense feelings of not wanting to, we did cause we already really wanted to go ANYWHOM turns out I lost/misplaced my debit card right before we left so I barely had enough money to get in and banks were closed once I realized and our banks are only in this city and we were leaving really early. So on top of that, I was already depressed and a jacked sleeping schedule made it worse. I was good until I was in line for Dante Basco signing but it was too early and it was the wrong person so we left. Then we did a scavenger hunt and that’s when he was signing and I couldn’t go cause we were busy so I was gonna go when we were done but when I did, they cut off the line. He had a meet and greet later. I couldn’t find my people, who wanted to buy stuff at the time, so I was gonna give up but then they were like let’s go so we made it. I finally got to extensively see Dante Basco. And take unfocused, distant pictures. He was saying he’ll sign autographs and take pictures afterwards so me and my friend finally got through the crowd but then his security said to make room so he can get to the guest room. So us and some other people decided to wait outside of the room, me and my friend waited across the (big) hall on the floor. Then my friend said there he is and I was like ‘what?’ looking at a crowd of people that just passed. I turned back to her, she said it again, I turned back to look where she was pointing to realize Dante was like 5 feet away from me signing something. So we got up waiting for him to finish so I could get a pic with him but as soon as he was done, we made eye contact, a foot away from each other, and like that he was whisked away into a restricted/secret hallway right next to us. I just looked down the hall, at him walking away, while me and my friend walked away, defeated.
