Ilovebirthdays, I just had that conversation with a guy at work today about what the conventions are actually like... All the jdubs at work are off to their convention, except for 2 that are going to a diff one, and it was just me and this other guy heading up to do a job, and he was asking me stuff about why I wasn't going with the rest of them and that... (I'd told him before, but with no JDubs around, it was alot easier to go into more detail)

After I explained I was a heathen now, his first question was about "what the hell do you guys do at them things anyway?" "Well, we pretty much just sit for three days and listen to speaches."
"Are you f^(king kidding me? three days?? No partying afterwards or anything?" "Nope. Oh, but you get an hour or hour and a half lunch break!" *laughter*
Then we got into how it was required to go to the stupid thing, and I explained 3 times a week going to meetings, also mandatory... Even for a single guy, hundreds of dollars spent on hotel, gas, etc... The huge crowds of people in the place, overcrowded parking lots that take an hour just to get out of...

We had a good laugh at how stupid the whole thing was...