What's the most boring Trade Show you've been to?
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I used to work on events at a hotel where we held a conference and sales event for the security sector. All the stands were full of toys for the bedroom commando shop or building site security guard. It was the sort of stuff that would appeal to the bloke who would buy an hour expandable baton on Ebay. It was deathly dull and poorly attended.
I used to work for a recovery company.
Once went to the Tow Show at the Telford "International" centre.
I got thoroughly s
t-faced at the industry banquet and woke up with the worst hangover imaginable, still clutching 2 bottles of wine I'd smuggled around from dinner. Discovered one of the other attendees sleeping in the tub of my hotel room.
Day 2 was hard work. Stuffy exhibition hall in sweltering heat. You'd be forced to taste whoever was in your vicinity, which doesn't go down so well when you're hungover.
To be fair, it would have probably only been slightly boring if I hadn't been working on the stand, they had some cool demo's with some pyrotechnics for effect, and the stand opposite ours had scantily clad models...
Once went to the Tow Show at the Telford "International" centre.
I got thoroughly s
t-faced at the industry banquet and woke up with the worst hangover imaginable, still clutching 2 bottles of wine I'd smuggled around from dinner. Discovered one of the other attendees sleeping in the tub of my hotel room. Day 2 was hard work. Stuffy exhibition hall in sweltering heat. You'd be forced to taste whoever was in your vicinity, which doesn't go down so well when you're hungover.
To be fair, it would have probably only been slightly boring if I hadn't been working on the stand, they had some cool demo's with some pyrotechnics for effect, and the stand opposite ours had scantily clad models...
robm3 said:
I'm off to 'World of Concrete' in the U.S. this week. It's right up there for dullness.
I'll post some pictures too because apparently there's a seminar on various aggregates!
But there must be worst ones no?
It's in Vegas! Had it been at Springfields showground (Spalding), or just outside Warrington you may have some sympathy, but once you get outside there are numerous diversions for the tired mind.I'll post some pictures too because apparently there's a seminar on various aggregates!
But there must be worst ones no?
Sustainable building materials expo at Earls Court.
full of 'kin lentil weaving, no good rug munchers and light footed swampies that knitted their own ties
Got absolutely battered at the bar, ended up in some dive down the Fulham Rd. in World's End.
We then had to complete a questionnaire about it for work. One of my cohorts managed to pass off a completely comprehensible work of fiction that he was asked to become the company champion in that field.
full of 'kin lentil weaving, no good rug munchers and light footed swampies that knitted their own ties
Got absolutely battered at the bar, ended up in some dive down the Fulham Rd. in World's End.
We then had to complete a questionnaire about it for work. One of my cohorts managed to pass off a completely comprehensible work of fiction that he was asked to become the company champion in that field.
Some big pushbike show in Cologne, it was like spot the customer
It was soooo boring I started chatting the up the Girls in the stand opposite, made for a few entertaining evenings & a wee session in a hidy hole between the stands
The same show a year later we the lads went on a night out, one of the lads from Venhill Eng ended up waking up in the foyer of some random hotel in Bohn! with no shoes or trousers on all by himself, made for an interesting trip back to Koln in the morning
He had absolutely no idea what happened 
It was soooo boring I started chatting the up the Girls in the stand opposite, made for a few entertaining evenings & a wee session in a hidy hole between the stands
The same show a year later we the lads went on a night out, one of the lads from Venhill Eng ended up waking up in the foyer of some random hotel in Bohn! with no shoes or trousers on all by himself, made for an interesting trip back to Koln in the morning
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