Napsterbater
04-13-2006, 11:49 AM
Alright, guys, what's the worst party you've ever been to? The kind you'd rather let cheese grow moldy between your toes before you'd ever go to. The ones that beat that urinary tract infection that had you in pain for weeks.
Mine went like this.
I picked up a flyer for a Burning Man-like event that would be taking place out in the desert near the border of Utah and Nevada. I figured because it was run by the same people than ran Burning Man, that it would be cool. This party had a focus on dance music. Basically, it was a rave out in the middle of the desert. But an organized one! Now, I missed the rave heyday of the early and mid nineties, so I figured this was my chance to catch up and show me what I had been missing. I spent about a hundred dollars in preparation for this weekend-long party. Drinks, (no alcohol, I wasn't 21 yet) food, a costume, (yeah, the flyer and the internet said there would be a costume event) rented camping equipment, the works.
The place was a good long drive through Northern Utah. I have a killer ability to follow driving directions, so finding my way wasn't the problem, but it literally hailed on me halfway through! I'm talking a freak downpour, and hail! The kind that really makes you wonder if you are going to get out of there alive. The rain ended as quickly as it began, like half an hour later. It was like if you snapped your fingers at the right time, you would have looked like the weather god himself!
So, I got out of that, and half an hour later, I'm down to the dirt roads. Slipping and sliding through the mud, it never once occured to me to turn around. I finally get to where it's supposed to be at. The directions say its a few miles out from the last turn. I found a bunch of people just sitting out there, but I payed them no mind. There happened to be a Jimmy in front of me, and at this point there's no question we're going to the same place. I follow him out into mud I never should have even looked at in my Pontiac Grand Am. I thought for sure I was going to get stuck. But it wasn't me that got stuck, it was my new friend in his GMC Jimmy! We get out and introduce ourselves, ankle deep in the kind of mud that would make for great mud wrestling. We give it the good old college try to get his vehicle out the mud, then I decide to take him back to where all those people we ignored were.
Turns out that's where they moved the party, because of the mud. Not only were we freezing and muddy, none of the services got there! The hailstorm put the trucks out of commission. By the time I went to bed, there was a pup tent with a turntable and a couple of speakers, and some burn barrels. In the morning, all that changed was that there were a pair of porta-potties. Needless to say, I was pissed. By noon, I had packed up and left. I have hence learned that it does not take a huge ordeal out in the desert to have a good time, so I limit my encounters to cheaply had ones. God did not set the monopoly on good times to only the ones that can afford to.
Mine went like this.
I picked up a flyer for a Burning Man-like event that would be taking place out in the desert near the border of Utah and Nevada. I figured because it was run by the same people than ran Burning Man, that it would be cool. This party had a focus on dance music. Basically, it was a rave out in the middle of the desert. But an organized one! Now, I missed the rave heyday of the early and mid nineties, so I figured this was my chance to catch up and show me what I had been missing. I spent about a hundred dollars in preparation for this weekend-long party. Drinks, (no alcohol, I wasn't 21 yet) food, a costume, (yeah, the flyer and the internet said there would be a costume event) rented camping equipment, the works.
The place was a good long drive through Northern Utah. I have a killer ability to follow driving directions, so finding my way wasn't the problem, but it literally hailed on me halfway through! I'm talking a freak downpour, and hail! The kind that really makes you wonder if you are going to get out of there alive. The rain ended as quickly as it began, like half an hour later. It was like if you snapped your fingers at the right time, you would have looked like the weather god himself!
So, I got out of that, and half an hour later, I'm down to the dirt roads. Slipping and sliding through the mud, it never once occured to me to turn around. I finally get to where it's supposed to be at. The directions say its a few miles out from the last turn. I found a bunch of people just sitting out there, but I payed them no mind. There happened to be a Jimmy in front of me, and at this point there's no question we're going to the same place. I follow him out into mud I never should have even looked at in my Pontiac Grand Am. I thought for sure I was going to get stuck. But it wasn't me that got stuck, it was my new friend in his GMC Jimmy! We get out and introduce ourselves, ankle deep in the kind of mud that would make for great mud wrestling. We give it the good old college try to get his vehicle out the mud, then I decide to take him back to where all those people we ignored were.
Turns out that's where they moved the party, because of the mud. Not only were we freezing and muddy, none of the services got there! The hailstorm put the trucks out of commission. By the time I went to bed, there was a pup tent with a turntable and a couple of speakers, and some burn barrels. In the morning, all that changed was that there were a pair of porta-potties. Needless to say, I was pissed. By noon, I had packed up and left. I have hence learned that it does not take a huge ordeal out in the desert to have a good time, so I limit my encounters to cheaply had ones. God did not set the monopoly on good times to only the ones that can afford to.