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Re: Question on Age Requirements
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Mon, 6 May 2002 23:32:05 GMT
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I must say Kai, after your tremendously worded request, if I were in charge
of Brickfest, I would let you in without question. But, alas, I have
nothing to do with Brickfest and my opinion means nothing.
Best of luck to you.
KEith
> From: "Kai Brodersen" <kbrodersen@comcast.net>
> Reply-To: lugnet.events.brickfest@lugnet.com
> To: lugnet.events.brickfest@lugnet.com
> Subject: Question on Age Requirements
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 21:15:25 GMT
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> Hello Brickfest Planners,
> While registering for BrickFest2002, I came across a line stating that no
> child under 16 will be permitted at Brickfest without the supervision of a
> parent/legal guardian at all times.
>
> I have to admit I can see the point in this. I myself being a FOL do not
> want children running around touching my models, and destroying the hard
> work of others. But I also must admit that I am not a legal adult yet, nor
> am I 16 yet. I am 14 years old. Now, please don't let that number
> determine my ability to act in a mature or professional manner. As any
> MICHLUG member can tell you I act on a level a bit higher than most kids of
> my age group (hopefully :P, and I hate to be advertising myself as well).
> That is to say I am not the one to run around going bonkers seeing all that
> LEGO and otherwise disrupting the events held at Brickfest. I am, in fact,
> and active member in MICHLUG, and in no way did my parents have anything to
> do with it, and I feel that by attending BrickFest I might have some little
> shred of something to contribute to the extremely enjoyable event that is
> Brickfest, which I myself have never attended.
>
> I also have to admit that I see the part of the rule that states I can
> attend but only with an adult. Personally, I think that line was created
> for the purpose that if a AFOL parent wishes to bring his less than 16 year
> old child to Brickfest, he/she must supervise the child at all times--that
> situation is the complete opposite of what I am in. As any of you AFOLs
> probably remember, your parents were probably not to enthusiastic about
> LEGO
> as you were; nor did you have LUGNET to increase your involvement in the
> hobby--that is the case with my parents. For starters, they got me into a
> hobby where I am buying things off of Bricklink, and building models that
> take up their whole living room. Now I wish of them to drive me to
> Washington D.C. and make them attend Brickfest (which they have no interest
> in doing so). So rather than dragging them along all day, I would rather
> just go on my own (of course, using proper AFOL mannerisms).
>
> Overall, I guess it boils down to this. I am 14 years of age; my parents
> do
> not want to drive out to Washington, D.C. to get me to Brickfest and have
> to
> attend it with me. Is there any way that there can be an exception in the
> rules for me? It seems that a lot of MICHLUG is going and I would like to
> be there to help contribute to that delegation from Michigan.
>
> And I actually have content to show; it is not like I just want to attend
> for the heck of it. There are a few questions regarding Terragen (a
> program
> used with POV-Ray and LEGO modeling) that I wish to clear up with some of
> the attendees, and I have several Episode 2 models I wish to display.
>
> So would you please consider my case? I know about that no exceptions
> philosophy that National Parks have, “If we made an exception for one
> person, then we would have to start making exceptions for everybody”, but
> not to use a pun intentionally, I believe my case is an exceptional one,
> compared to the other cases out there.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Kai Brodersen
> MichLUG/LTC Member
> LUGNET Member #668
KEith
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| I have to agree with Keith, it is a very mature letter that Kai writes. Plus, from personal experience dealing with Kai (he was a exhibiting guest of our Toronto Train Show (Train2)), he is not your average 14 year old. (...) I think this particular (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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