>>1938484
yup. i've ran into old school friends, and co workers at cons before. pretty chill.

>>1938495
oh oh
tell the story of how you got past security at seattle airport D:

I ran into an ex-girlfriend at a con.

She was half-japanese so it didn't really surprise me, but oddly enough I was the one that got her interested in Animu.

3 of my best friends, and we hung out for days without noticing. Only found out months later. Either we're stupid or we're really good cosplayers...

I ran into my high school theatre teacher at a con once. He and his girlfriend were dressed as Klingons. I wasn't too surprised by the costume, though, since he'd worn it to class on Halloween. Lolol.

>>1938526
[spoiler]You're really stupid[/spoiler]

a few years back I ran into my lab partner at Dragon*Con. We talked for like 2 minutes then went our separate ways. Looking back.. it's pretty weird, even though we saw talked to each other every other day, we never talked about anything con related

It was a few years back at AX I want to say '06. I had a class earlier in the year with a gal and we talked and the like. She was typical artist girl. About three or so weeks into the class she went and disappeared. Well I randomly got a free ticket to AX that summer and who did I find but her.

We chatted for a while and went our separate ways. Ran into her the next year too...Dammit never got her number.

>>1938484
I saw past high school classmates at a con once, passed by each other on escalators, met up and hung out for a bit.

I acually ran into some friends that recently graduated from my school at a convention. It was pretty funny

Well I'm a teacher at a University so when I run into students at a con it's pretty awkward lol

not really people i know know but people who always seem to somehow know me that i either forget or i dont know at all.

im expecting to have a total "...and here is your son!" moment.

3 years ago I ran into my physics teacher from highschool. He was entering some street fighter tournament with one of his friends and I was dressed as some FAIL Fooly Cooly character.I somehow had an awkward conversation before slinky away. Ugg...he was cute and pretty cool too.

Saw a coworker, but she didn't recognise me. I wore a wig and lots of make-up (horrible old visual kei cosplay...)

I wear a mask most of the time so even if my co-workers find a website or attend a con im on they can't prove its me despite recognising my tag etc.

>>1938831
This happened to me too. I saw a guy I work with and since I was crossplaying I didn't want an "awkward moment", so I ducked my head down like I was reading and he passed on by. I got such a rush!

I've run into someone my friend knew. We were wearing different versions of the same character so we did some pics together and my friend saw the pics posted on myspace and was like hey, i know that guy! He then told the other guy he knew me too

>>1938793
dude I haven't laughed this hard in a while ahahaha I dont know why but this shit is hysterical 10/10

This was an after the fact shock. A few years back, I went to a little podunk con, so small that you ran into every attendee at least twice. Recently, I decided to go searching for pics from the con, for old time's sake. I come across a picture of girls that go to my current school, whom I was about 2 months away from meeting at the time. I'm not their close friend or anything, but I did a total double, triple take when I saw the picture. Of course, they were in full on Naruto getup. Naturaaalllyyy.

my facebook picture is of me in costume at a con. Some girl my friend knows saw me comment on his status and it turned out she recognized me from a con so she requested me.

I've run into random classmates that I never knew liked cons, and they were cosplaying.

Weirdest, though, was the other day at work. My coworker thought I looked familiar and when we started to talk cosplay he asked if I was at a local con last fall. I replied honestly and told him what I was cosplaying. Turns out he shook my hand and gave me a hug because he loved my costume.

>>1940065
Holy shit. You win at life.

I ran into some old classmates from my high school days before. Funny thing is, they were always in the sort of crowd that bullied nerds and weeaboos, then I find them at a convention cosplaying. It was a satisfying kind of irony.

I went to a catholic high school and had a Principal who was aptly named Mr. Cox. He was the unifom nazi dick who would rage at one of my friends daily becuase she was wearing the school vest and sweater because she was freezing and he did't want to believe her when she said they were both uniform. That summer we seen him at Fan Expo, and my friends bug him for a picture with them because omg Mr. cox goes to nerd cons, and he never bothered any of us about uniforms ever again.

all the time where i am from, most of the time they make eye contact and keep walking ,might be cause they heard i hadsex with so&so and the like.

I once met an annoying classmate.
And she recognized me.
Fuck.

I've run into quite a few people myself, actually.

I had no idea how much crossover there was between the car community and the anime con community until I started running into people I knew from one thing at the other.

Nothing's as bad as being randomly recognized, on a normal day, from 4chan, though. I've had people ask me if I was (my ex-tripfag name) multiple times, just from my car being recognized from /o/ posts back in the day.

Saw a girl I knew from school and made a complete ass of myself, never spoke to her again...

>>1940074

Why, thank you!

A friend of his works with us, too, and he recognizes my photos as well. It's so bizarre!

Ex-friends, Old friends, people going with their kids who knew me from where I worked... lotsa weirdness.