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My neighbors pushed us out of the mudhole. What a group of guys. They had walked all the way in from the gate. They ended up camping right beside us and hung with us most of roo!!!
My friend had set up a pretty sweet camp shower. We were camped right next to the pay showers too. One morning these kids came by and asked to pay to use our shower because the line was so long and they had walked forever to get there. We said sure, just fill up a shower bag after. They ended up filling all of our bags :-)
Being one of the tallest person at bonnaroo. I often helped people find their groups through the crowds. Or let people know which way the mass was going of how far we were from getting out of the crowd between shows.
Post by lyricaldedd on Jun 21, 2010 12:59:26 GMT -5
We came in on Wednesday night and were moving to tent only Thursday morning. We were parked next to these guys that had never been to Bonnaroo before. They didn't bring much with them, just one tent for the three of them. We set up our extra tent for us to sleep in that night and left it for them when we moved to tent only. We also shared our beer with them and gave them a little Bonnaroo advice.
When we got to tent only we had neighbors that were day parking, but brought a tent for when they had a little too much to drink and didn't want to leave. We shared our chairs and shade with them. The brought us ice in everyday and ended up hanging out with us for most of the weekend.
I'll get the ball rolling. Our neighbors in Biff Tannen were from Canada. It was their first Bonnaroo, and like normal they were a little under prepared for the heat and humidity of TN. After everyone in our group got settled in and set up we had an extra canopy. Seeing them in need, we set up the extra canopy around their tents to provide some much needed shade. It helped them out tremendously, and they were very grateful. It always feels great to help someone else out.
PAY IT FORWARD!
These may have been the same Canadians that got us drunk on Canadian beer Wednesday night! They deserved some kindness if so.
Emoney serves more of a purpose than any of you, especially Nate, whose incessant, garbled ramblings are so mindless and pointless that I get depressed just seeing them.
From my experiences at Black Rock City, I have adopted the idea of gifting and it entertains me every time I gifted away Jello Shots or Bacon people were waiting for the "Catch" or asking "How much?". No catch, just free.
Wait. You were giving away bacon?!?!? Soooo jealous that I missed out on that!!!!
@cd, Dude next year the Bacon will find you! I love to Gift out stuff. It sounds cliche, like my gay friend Nate says, It is better to give, than receive. (okay, bad joke at Nate's expense, forgive me Nate) but yeah Free Bacon on Friday and Sunday. ;D
Post by johncagebubblegum on Jun 22, 2010 0:41:59 GMT -5
i bring a bunch of extra lighters with me so that when someone around me asks for a light, i tell them to keep it. the reaction i get is awesome.
on the other end, someone at lcd gave me as much water as i needed from his camelbak, and someone just handed me a cold beer at lee burridge. it was like 5 am, but i was like what the hell why not.
Being one of the tallest person at bonnaroo. I often helped people find their groups through the crowds. Or let people know which way the mass was going of how far we were from getting out of the crowd between shows.
Dude, where you in the big crowd with us, trying to get from Weezer to Stevie? If so, you did give us the play-by-play. Didn't make it go any faster, but thanks for the heads-up.
A gave out a bunch of palo santo wood, for fragrant burning, and a kaleidoscope laser. I do like the act of giving.
i guess i didn't do all that much for anybody this year... but many a bonnarooer told me that my corn was the best they had in ages! (and i was amply rewarded for that. constantly. all weekend.)
I tried to spread the love as best I could. Gave one of my lighters to a guy who asked my for a light. The girls camped in front of me needed a pot to cook dinner in and when they were done they briught me the left overs. And all my neighbors were welcome to use anything that was in camp or have any of the food,beer or water they needed. Mi casa es su casa. Cheers all.
Almost forgot, upon arrival that wet Wed. night I must have helped push 3 to 5 cars out of the mud ( you don't always have to mash the gas to get out )
Post by msbrandymichelle on Jun 22, 2010 15:45:41 GMT -5
We tried to do as much as possible for others- food, bandaids, sunblock & aloe, whatever Also found a cell phone. Gave it to the staff at the front of the Comedy Tent (someone lost it in line - hope it all worked out!).
Thanks for the body painting of my kiddos, the general compassion & acknowledgment of my kiddos, our neighbors & everything they did (water, wagon, their kids for entertainment of my kids, & their company) & everything else I'm failing to mention - people were great at Roo!
@cd, Dude next year the Bacon will find you! I love to Gift out stuff. It sounds cliche, like my gay friend Nate says, It is better to give, than receive. (okay, bad joke at Nate's expense, forgive me Nate) but yeah Free Bacon on Friday and Sunday. ;D
Free Bacon Fridays and Sundays sounds awesome! I will track you down.
There's a bar in Buffalo that gives out bacon instead popcorn or peanuts on Saturdays. (I think it's Saturdays...) More bars should do that!
We found a wallet behind our tent circle over the weekend, and though it was empty of money and credit cards (I'm pretty sure someone had emptied it and dropped it :[ ), a list of phone numbers inside for Mom, Dad, etc had been left inside! We called Mom and got Harrison his awesome wallet back within the hour!
Post by katimus528 on Jun 27, 2010 16:46:12 GMT -5
I went around to all the campsites around ours and passed out "special cookies" to our neighbors... on Sunday our car needed a jump and one of our neighbors ran over to help us out. He said it was the least he could do after the awesome cookies I had given him I also brought lots of extra cigs, so when people came up and asked if they could buy one, I would give them 5. In return, at almost every show the people around me shared corn with us. I love seeing karma in action
"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
Saturday I was literally dripping sweat like the disgusting beast that I am. I went to buy myself a lemonade and the vendor looked at me and told me to chug a bunch of the drink quick and he'd give me a free refill. Man that hit the spot and I appreciated it more than I could express. This is one of my favorite things about Bonnaroo. People doing things to help/give others a better time with no expectations in return. I love the south and I love Bonnarooers.
“What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?---Roger Waters
Lots of karma at my site this year. I arrived weds night, which was soggy as stated before. We got put in Oddjob and all 6 groups around our tent were helping each other get the tents up as quickly as possible so that by the time the last tent was being set up, there were about 15 people helping each other put up 1 tent. It definitely made setting up camp in the pouring rain 1000x easier. The best part was that I found out everyone in the whole group except me and my friends were first time rooers, so it really is astonishing to see how simply entering the farm inspires a feeling of community and friendship. After all was said and done, we all sat down in our tent and had a few drinks to prepare for the long weekend ahead.
I was in line to fill my camelbak, right before I was going to camp out for the FLips. The guy behind me asked where he could get food for $2, and I told him pretty much nowhere. I don't know why, but I felt like giving him $5 so he could get some pizza. I wasn't passing money out all weekend, it just felt like the right thing to do. Anyways, while I was watching the FLips play Dark Side, one of the money balloons blew up right by me and I got my $5 back. I love instant karma.
Saturday I was literally dripping sweat like the disgusting beast that I am. I went to buy myself a lemonade and the vendor looked at me and told me to chug a bunch of the drink quick and he'd give me a free refill. Man that hit the spot and I appreciated it more than I could express. This is one of my favorite things about Bonnaroo. People doing things to help/give others a better time with no expectations in return. I love the south and I love Bonnarooers.
I've told this story elsewhere but it fits in here.
Last year on Sunday I was craving root beer for some reason. I went to the root beer float stand and tried to buy a root beer and she said that they only sell them as floats, not as root beer. I then asked for a root beer float, hold the ice cream and she wouldn't do it. I explained that I was fine with paying for the whole float, I just didn't want the ice cream. She wasn't having it. I'm not sure if she thought that I was trying to pull some scam on her or her religion forbids drinking root beer without ice cream or she was just a jerk but there was no persuading her to dispense with the root beer.
So I left, pretty annoyed. About fifteen minutes later I was walking by the Ben and Jerry's stand at the What Stage and decided to give it another shot. They also wouldn't sell just root beer but were totally down with the float-hold-the-ice-cream gambit. I was thrilled and I relayed my trial at the root beer float stand of crusing dreams and they were like, No Way! They ended up pouring a giant ass thing of root beer and told me to feel free to come by later for a free refill.
Karma to the fine folks at Ben and Jerry's for showing some compassion and simple reasoning skills.
It was the thrid or second day I was runner for my boss and he cracked that whip hard. Plus I was burt to a crisp because I didn't have any sunblock. So I was toten a full load of drinks to one of our tents and I hit a rock and the drinks went everywhere. I said F**K and instead of people running and grabing the drinks to jack ya boy, they ran and started helping me stack them back on my dolly. Really appreciated that all drink where accounted for and the boss man aint even know...
Post by tnbackroads on Jan 2, 2011 11:04:38 GMT -5
On Thursday our group was placed at the end of Ferris Buller right next to the showers. The workers put us in one place and then the security on horse came by and told us we were in the road and must move back. So we moved back about 5 ft and started setting up camp again only to have more security on horse come by and tell us that we had to move back. (We did this 3 times.) I kept having to ask our Neighbors for more space since we were right up against the road and a fence that went around the showers. They were happy to oblige and even helped us move our already set up ez up. Our neighbors ended up being completely unprepared for the TN heat and had no shade. We invited them to join us in the shade, which they did for the rest of the weekend. I don't know if they would have made it through the weekend without it. It was nice to have people to watch your stuff when your not around. When it started to rain a little bit one day we through all their stuff under the tarp so it wouldn't get wet (even though it barely rained.) We also shared water, chairs, corn and our huge bags of beef jerky with them. They were great guys, can't wait to meet some more great people this year!
Post by sweetmelissa on Jan 3, 2011 0:05:29 GMT -5
I gave a neighbor our last $20 we had on us to help get his flat repaired. We also share food, beer, tp, sunscreen, and any other supply the neighbors need.
Our campsite this past year was right next to the road/walkways that split up the GA camping blocks. This particular stretch of road was very very muddy and dead ended at a patch of trees just down the way from our campsite. There was a lot of open camping spots around our site because how muddy and innaccessible it was in some places.
People coming in late thursday and early friday morning saw all these empty spots would drive their cars down the road only to get stuck. My crew must have helped about 5 or 6 cars get pushed out of the mud to relative safety and watched another 3 or 4 get pulled out by tractor or tow truck. We even saw a tow truck get stuck trying to pull out a vehicle.
Eventually we got tired of watching this happen over and over so we roped off the road and put up signs...which people ignored and kept getting stuck.
BUT HERES THE KICKER!! Cut to the end of the festival: people are trying to leave early on sunday morning (which can be a bit dicy trying to find a way out of the campgrounds). But people saw the road and empty campsites and thought hey what a perfect way out...
We had just gotten back from raging at Disco Biscuits till sunrise and this car starts up the road. We run out and yell "hey stop! Don't do! you WILL get stuck!" They decide to go anyway...so we tell them to stay to the right were its dry and don't stop moving or they'll get stuck. They didn't listen...they get stuck. Everyone in my camp is like "F**k that we warned them don't help them" but of course I chime in "come on guys lets help out just one last car, it'll be good karma it'll come back to us in the end" so reluctantly my friends decide to help, we give it 3 or 4 good tries before I tell the driver "sorry man you're gonna have to get a tow truck, we tried" then one of the people in the car comes running over with a piece of plywood and puts it under the rear tire. They convince us to try one more time with the plywood...
We start pushing, the driver hits the gas, and the plywood gets shot out the back of the car directly into my buddy's shin. He was limping for weeks and missed just about every sunday show because of it. I'm suprised it didn't break his leg. I normally beleive in Karma but I'm pretty sure it totally f*cked us this time around...