How I Cut in Line to Meet Trash Taste

I promise I'm not becoming a story time blogger, but I had to share this one cuz I was super proud of myself.

So I was at this year's MCM London Comic Con, where I spent most of my time looking around with my girlfriend and blowing my money on anime merch. I knew the boys from Trash Taste were gonna do signings from 1:30 to 3:30 so I thought I had plenty of time and went to the panel at 2:15 only to see this line...

Certified BRUH moment. I ended up joining the line anyway since we still had over an hour so I was hoping everyone will get a turn. Two people ended up joining after me and the organisers closed the line. Phew. Made it just in time...or so I thought. 5, 10, 15 minutes pass and we're just straight up not moving. That long line you see in the picture isn't a just a massive straight line of people. It's one of those annoying zig zag lines they have in airports for crowd control and although it doesn't look like it, I promise you there are a good 200-300 people in front of me.

 

After 30 more minutes of moving at grandma speed and literally not making any progress I notice a guy from around the middle go to one of the organisers and they start talking about something. I can't hear anything cuz I'm far away and there's like a hundred people in front of me, so I activate my hidden jutsu, forbidden secret techniques and just watch their body language like a hawk. It was literally like that cliché "enhance" line in movies, but my eyes were genuinely enhancing😂 The dude talks to the organiser, they both point around at the crowd and that's when the organiser makes a gesture with her hand that looks like she's cutting off the line at about 1/3 of its current progress. I start worrying. The dude looks disappointed. They talk for a bit more, he goes back into the middle where his friends are the man straight up makes an X with his hands and is looking bummed tf out. At this point alarms are going off in my head cuz this was the only day I was at the convention and I just spent 45 minutes waiting in a line that was about to get cut off. Total schmuck move...unleeeeeeeess😈

 

I go a little out of line and ask the organiser nearest to me what the policy for these lines was. This is technically the first signing I've ever been to so I assumed once they closed the line behind me after the other two people, they'd ensure everyone gets their stuff signed if they're already in the que. Rookie mistake. The organiser straight up tells me "at 3:30, they're gone". At this point it's 3:00 and I'm around two meters closer that I was when I joined. I had nothing to lose so I asked the organiser, as a joke "What if I just went to the front and slipped someone £20 to let me join haha?". I kid you not she just shrugged. I can tell she wasn't getting paid enough for this. Shoutout to her! Big time mvp😂

 

Next thing you know, I slip out of line and start walking up to the front like I owned the place lmao. Once I reach around the 3rd row (had to make it realistic and not just jump right at the front) another organiser comes up to me and asks what I'm doing. I act like I'm looking for my friends in the row and ask her if this is the "T-Trash...Trash Taste podcast?" line to which she says "yes". At this point I'm looking inwards and she's right next to me knowing I'm about to cut in line if I pretend to be looking a second longer. "OH, SHARK HOODIE" I say as if I've found my long lost brother. I thanked her to make it look like she helped me find Waldo and casually started cutting in line, searching for the friendliest looking person I can find in the split second I had to get a good look at the people in front of me.

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Bingo!

 

Found this big dude that looked super approachable and just yelled "Heeeeey dude, how's it going?" just loud enough to where the organiser suspicious of me could hear. Immediately after, I shove £20 in his hand and whisper "20 if you let me go in front of you". At this point I can see the dude is obviously confused and I don't dare turn around and face the organiser so after a good four to five seconds he repeats exactly what I said, but as a question. I nod and he takes another 5 seconds to say "For 20, I'll do it". Myyyyyyy guyyyyyyy! 🤜🤛

 

We just end up talking and getting to know each other while we move up the line. We got so wrapped up in the whole thing that we forgot to exchange any info though, so if by some chance you're reading this right now and you're that guy that let me cut in line, thanks bro, I hope your studies go well!

 

AT LAST. The time has come! I mean you saw those pics so spoiler, yes I did meet the bois (except Garnt who wasn't there) and I got them to sign their 3x3s which I had printed out the night before. I should also say they signed them at around 3:15 to 3:20 so I barely made it in time. 10 minutes to spare even with cutting in line lol.

As a final note, Yugioh GX is my favourite anime of all time so I wanted to give em something as a token of appreciation for the hours of entertainment these certified bros had given me. I wanted to give every one of em a Yugioh card so I needed 3 cards that were connected in some way. The obvious choice are the Egyptian Gods, but I wanted them to be native to GX so I figured I'll give em the three Sacred Beasts. I took Hamon, Uria and Raviel straight outta my personal Yubel character deck and put em in matching sleeves like so:

I saw Joey first so after he signed his 3x3 I gave him Hamon, then asked him to do me a favour and give Uria to Garnt who wasn't there. Same thing with Connor and Raviel. Full disclosure, I planned to publish this post in a few days, but I just saw the latest episode of Trash Taste and the bois actually mentioned me and pulled out the Yugioh cards. Check out the video here, timestamp is 41:51. What legends lol. Yes Joey, you're right, Hamon was for you. Hope you guys enjoy em and big thanks for the hours of fun you've given me!

So yeah, this was my wild story about slipping a guy £20 to cut in line and meet the bois. Didn't think they'd pull the cards out on the show but hey, that's awesome. Yours truly is cemented in Trash Taste history lol. Thanks for reading peeps ✌ Follow me to get notified when I post.