Silly, stupid people at Roo

They're called hippies and the only thing that keeps them away is Metallica.

Lots of people sneek in with (or without) bogus wristbands. They have no money, food, etc. and spent none getting in. So there are no money priorities, just make do as best you can. They're called wooks and it's a lifestyle. (They're usually nice people too.)

Which is ridiculous. If I didn't have the money to go to Roo, I wouldn't go. I wouldn't want to depend on the kindness of others for the necessities. Truth is they probably had plenty of money for food and water, just wanted money for corn. They may be nice people but they also take advantage of other nice people.

"They're called hippies and the only thing that keeps them away is Metallica."
Who are the true silly, stupid people at Roo? Are they me and my family with a pop up camper and three tents? We used a battery for my husbands CPAP, and flashlights to see. We had coolers with food and pads to sleep on.
Are they the people who spend thousands of dollars on VIP tickets providing access to all the comforts of home, the security of fences and bleachers to sit on, requiring smelly, gas guzzling generators?
Or are they the people who get by on the minimum, possibly spending their savings on tickets to get in?
I am an old hippie, who thinks the term implies independence from societal norms and conventions of authority, politically, spiritually, and ecologically. Many of these ideals have spawned the movements you see here and at other festivals like Roo. Think recycling and making a smaller "carbon footprint".
Life is full of assumptions and we all make them, but there will be many times when our assumptions are wrong, and we will never know it. So it could be that those people you saw had "a situation", such as a theft, forcing them to ask for help. We will never know.

Line Jumpers ... when you are waiting ever so patiently to get in the farm. You know, for like 5 hours or so. And they just sneak in front of you never having to wait for anything.

I know about 7 people who snuck in to 'roo...you're right most are wooks but none of these people were. I heard they made well.

the stupidest people i witnessed at roo was the guy that looked like he was ready to kill someone before dillinger escape plan. and i overheard him tell his friend he was going to 'break someone rednecks jaws". he looked like was possessed whne he took off into the pit. but the worst thing i saw was walking back to camp sun. night while phish was playing. there are some meathead guys in front of us, i overheard the guy tell his friend, i'm going to hit someone (in the crowd that was coming down the opposite way on the street). the asshole runs into this guy knocking his shit everywhere. and to top it off, stops in the road arms crossed looking back, just hoping that guy wanted to fight him. now don't get me wrong bands like nin, tool, metallica, dep, mastodon are some of my favorites, but i think they bring to bonnaroo a kind of crowd that otherwise wouldn't be there. some people are just assholes and they want to fight and hurt people and cause damage. i just felt disgusted when i saw these things.

when we came into the farm there was a knot of people holding signs asking for money.
no money for you. jerks. they were well dressed, baked, and laughing about it.
looked to me like they were there just to mooch for the fun of it.

then one night some guy happens by my camp and asks me for a beer.
i say no we only have two, because we did only have two left, and he made me feel bad, mumbling something about karma and a favor for a favor. jerkstore! if he'd come up and introduced himself or offered to help me hang up the wet towels i was clipping to the canopy which he came up behind near the fence and scared me half to death, i would have gladly given him one of my two beers. how dare he make me feel bad for not sharing when he wasn't looking to share, he was looking to mooch? i felt bad about not giving him one for the rest of the night, like i was some kind of stingy asshole. but he wasn't trying to be friendly or make friends or be helpful in any way, just sneaking up on me in the dark mooching beer (underage) and guilting me for saying no when i really did only have two beers left. we only brought six in case we werein a beer mood. we mostly brought wine. but seriously that guy made me feel mean.

ps- white wine passes for water on your way into centeroo in your water bottle and they usually don't ask you to dump it out. and its less bubbly-gassy than beer. yay for box-o-winos.

^^amen

After Phish on Friday night I was at my campsite and I was packing my ciggarettes. This guy comes out of nowhere asking for a ciggarette because he said he heard me packing them. So I gave him one and he sat down. He was wearing only shorts, no shoes or shirt. So next thing he ask for a beer, I give him one. Next he tells me he is lost, so I get my map out and try to figure out where he is camped. He next ask me if I have duct tape, and he makes shoes out of one of our empty beer cases. It was funny as hell. And mind you this guy did not look like a wookie at all. He was very clean cut. He even gave me his lighter for helping and let me take a picture of his make-shift shoes. The picture came out too dark but it was awesome. I'm not sure what he was on, but it must have been good.

I always buy an extra pack a day of cloves to share, I don't even smoke the rest of the year.

People were sharing their corn with me left and right. I never asked for it, not once. I was just in the right place at the right time, with the right people. When I felt that I was mooching too much, I turned it down. If people offer you things without you asking, then I feel theres nothing wrong with that. Oh, and I'm the opposite of a wook.

I gave away smokes to anyone who asked. Most people were amazed that I didn't want money, but I wouldn't feel right about charging people for cigarettes I didn't pay for in the first place.

lol. I've done the same thing before. No biggie. Chances are you'll never see those people again