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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 had a really good group of neighbors who were all well off. We shared all our cheese, food, and any sort of supplies we needed with eachother. Great experience! Hope to do it again!
Post by GratefulHippie on Jan 16, 2010 14:59:25 GMT -5
i think asking for help is all in the intent. it becomes clear fairly quickly if someone is just asking because they HAVE to, or because they WANT to. even if it's the latter, at least you were willing to give a part of yourself to help someone out. that speaks more to your character than theirs, IMO.
haha Insidejoke you never told me about that. My only negative-ish experience that I remember was when my roo-partner and I were packing stuff into the car on Monday morning, some wook-looking type came up and asked for a ride out. Now I would not normally give a ride to someone I don't know, no matter what they look like, just because I'm kind of paranoid. I thank my mom for that. Regardless, I had absolutely no room in my car, which this guy could plainly see, and I didn't feel bad in the least about saying no. I had a pipe that I bought there for the purpose of smoking at Roo and leaving at Roo, and I hadn't gotten rid of it yet so I said "I can't give you a ride but I'd be honored if you took this fine pipe, which serviced me well." He looks at it and mumbles something like "well is there any corn in it?" and there just happened to be the very last of my corn in there, which I graciously allowed him to have. He made a face and said something like "man, people have given me like three bowls already." That really rubbed me the wrong way. I mean what the hell? Get the hell out of my campsite then, and leave the pipe for someone nicer! Jerk.
Post by thedudeabides on Feb 9, 2010 4:36:45 GMT -5
Fucking scavangers...I fucking hate those guys...
The only people i hate worse are line cutters. I think it was in 07 we made it to the gate after waiting for several hours, only to have this douchebag with jersey plates cut in front of us.
I almost got out and started a fight i was so pissed.
Last year all I managed to do was let our neighbors borrow a hammer to nail in some splikes/stakes for their tent or canopy. Neighbors turned out to bring way too much food and we were given burgs, dogs and sausages pretty much the entire weekend. Which was nice because our burgers got a little bit of water damage (patties turned to mush).
That's what the roo is about though, community. people helping people.
09' Was my first Roo and all in all it was an awesome experience. My Roo mate was a bit of a tool and I haven't spoken to her since we got home on Monday night. Note to self: Roo is a horrible second date. Anyway, our neighbors were awesome but one young man, whom I still stay in contact with via Facebook, decided to start drinking early on Sunday morning. By midmorning Sunday he was totally unresponsive and had to have a ride to the Medical tent for a nice IV. I TOTALLY missed Erica Badu because I was being an attendant for him and the walking an hour and a half to the med tent with his girlfriend. Did I mention he was no longer at the med tent when we got there?
Nice guy who made a silly mistake. But still, even at Roo, some moderation and responsibility go a long way...
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Post by jade~natasha on Mar 4, 2010 17:47:50 GMT -5
on previous page:
**Note, I was not panhandling. Just being an ass.**
Can I be really honest here and say that I was one of the silly, stupid people at Roo?
At about 6:30 a.m. Monday morning, after packing up all of our nuts in tent-only and hauling it 40 minutes to our vehicle once, it was time to do it again. My Roo-mate and I had ridiculous amounts of crap to roll/carry and it was muddy and I was pissed that I had to go home early because of work. About halfway back, I had to stop for a break. An SUV with New Jersey plates rolls by with their windows down and everyone inside was laughing and looking outside (at us, I thought). Well, that was the last straw. I turned around and spewed a trail of curses at them for laughing at us. After I finished, my companion points out they were laughing at the girl puking on the side of the road, whom I did not see, and not at us.
I felt like a big jerk. And he got mad at me for yelling. Boo on the whole situation.
So, if you’re from New Jersey and were driving an SUV near tent-only early Monday morning, and an insane woman with blonde pigtails and a tie-dye hoodie ripped you a new one, PLEASE accept my apologies. I swear it will never happen again.
I understand why you are apologizing, but they shouldn't have been laughing at the girl who was puking.
If it had been me in that SUV I would have made the driver pull over and held her hair or something. It sucks to be sick. I'm sure it was probably from drinking or eating too much corn, and some would say that if that is the case then she deserves it but... i've been in that situation at a party once, while I was puking the people around me were just laughing AND taking pictures, not one person offered me any help. I guess it's for that reason I would have helped the puking girl.
i feel inclined to share a story about myself being a "stupid person." i actually posted this on some other thread a long time ago, but here it is...
back in '07, my buddy and i had gone back to camp to drink just before Tool. we downed an entire mini keg between the two of us in the course of an hour, so we decided to head back and catch the tail end of Tool before heading on over to Superjam. i had to pee as we were leaving camp, but i figured it could wait til we got into Centeroo. i was very wrong. we arrived at the gate to Centeroo only to find out that there was a couple thousand people trying to get through a gate where there was only one attendant, and we were directly in the middle of the crowd. we didn't move from our spot for 15 minutes and my bladder was about to burst. i've never had to relieve myself more in my entire life. we couldn't see what the holdup was so my friend, who was much bigger than me, picked me up several times to see above everyone and find out what's going on. everyone around us was staring up at me attentively hoping to hear the report. i yelled out, "it's moving over that way!", which created this huge shift of people to the right. meanwhile, back on the ground now, my face was all screwed up and i was doing the pee-pee break dance. everyone around us knew there was a problem and i told them that i was on the verge of whipping my stuff out and peeing right then and there. everyone was nice enough to let me cut ahead of them in like so i could get to the port-a-potties. finally, after about a half hour, i made it into the park and immediately was on a dead sprint for the port-a-potties. i missed all of Tool, but I created a good memory for my friend and I at our first trip to the farm.
i think the people at 'Roo are absolutely amazing. if it hadn't been for the nice people that let me cut in front of them, who knows what would have happened!
