Accidentally making the Yellow Ranger feel old = Pick-up fail

I woke up at 6:00AM and went straight to the gym to swell up. I only did my 4th day of abs and 5 sets of pec flies. Eugene with Stef, Candice, and Jun picked me up to go to my 1st Anime Expo. I went as Twilight's Jacob Black, which was possible by loophole since Twilight was adapted into a manga (comic book in Japanese).



Surprisingly, there was one other brown dude there as Jacob Black, complete with cardboard cut-out face.

JACOB: (Referring to me) Let me take a picture with this guy! (Referring to my wolfpack tattoo) This is the only thing I'm missing.
GOKU (or someone dressed as him): I bet this is now gonna take off like wildfire. Next year, there will probably be like a million Jacobs.
JACOB: This is the smartest costume. You and I already know.



There were lots of chicks dressed as Sailor Moon, but this was probably the best looking one. Kind of A.D.D. and ditzy, though.

RYAN: I used to be Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon's lover) for Halloween.
SAILOR MOON: Oh my God, you would've been perfect today! We could've been together ... blah, blah, blah ...

And then Super Mario - yeah, as in Super Mario Bros - tried to cockblock!

MARIO: (Recognizing my wolfpack tattoo) You're in the wrong con[vention]! Blah, blah, blah ... It's because of people like you our con sold out so fast ... Blah, blah, blah ...

At this point, Sailor Moon stood up for me and punked him! She is so in my database!



People dressed as Dhalsim and Cammy from Street Fighter. That Cammy is also in my database.

Highlights:

• The original Mighty Morphin' Black Power Ranger, Zack (Walter Jones), snuck up behind me just to say, "You forgot your shirt."
• I was picking up on the 2nd Yellow Ranger, Aisha (Karan Ashley), but the epic fail came when I accidentally made her feel old as I could see her self esteem leave her eyes.
• I bought a leather shoulder plate, like the one they wear in Spartacus: Blood and Sand, from a traveling vendor booth called Crimson Chain.

The saleswoman was an abnormally tall chick. Points of our conversation were as follows ...

TALL CHICK: (Referring to me being shirtless) I wish it were legal for me to do that.
RYAN: I wish it were too.

TALL CHICK: (To other chick customers) These work like ... (To me) You, sir, model for me. [I model.]

TALL CHICK: Wait, it's cutting into your pec. [Readjusts it.] Oh like you're gonna complain about a girl tying and untying you. It's so unfair for guys like you to have hair like this.

TALL CHICK: There you go, sir. You are now a model for advertsing us. Remember to flex a lot and tell people about us. And remember, you are at a convention where they adore men like you. This (leather shoulder plate) will get you laid.

Lowlight: Eugene had one of his insecure, low self esteem episodes.