It was the lack of benches that really annoys me in retrospect - there were lots of people sitting in stairwells or on the floors because there was nowhere else to sit, and greentrilobite's main problem was that it's hard for him to get up from sitting on the floor (lots of non-security people always offered to help him, but he doesn't like having his arms pulled on either). I'm not sure to what extent this part was Rogers' fault - surely a convention centre should have public benches.

We'd brought a folding lawn chair, but it broke in the ticket lineup.