To go or not to go...

[VX5195]

Hi there,

I'm in need of some advice...I have a weekend Camping Ticket for this year's Reading Festival (this coming Bank Holiday weekend) and I have booked to go with three of my friends (all girls)

The thing is that I don't really want to go, one of the girls who is going is so OTT excited by it and the thought of four days camping in a muddy field and toilets that are no better than using the floor is awful.

Do I:
a) go and pretend to enjoy it
b) not go and be at home working

If I wasn't to go, how would you tell your friends that you weren't up for going?

I don't want to let them down, but then I wouldn't want to go to the festival, not enjoy it and ruin their time there.

Any useful advice/help would be much appreciated, many thanks

[HTP99]

Go, I love Reading Festival; I don't camp though as I don't live too far away and I'm too old, it'll be fun especially as there is a group of you, the OTT one will calm down once she realises she can't wash for a few days.

I've camped at Glastonbury and the toilets were rank, it pissed down for half the time but it was great fun, you'll enjoy it.

Also, if you don't go, you will be letting them down too.

Edited by HTP99 on Sunday 23 August 21:48

[kiethton]

Used to go annually until a few years back, camping in a group.

GO

You will not regret it, if you drink enough you won't even hear her...

Worst case if you don't want to go I'll take your ticket (as long as I can share the tent with the other 3 girls...

[iva cosworth]

c] throw a sickie.

[TheLordJohn]

Been to Reading,
Whilst I enjoyed it, to a degree, I also wished I didn't go at the same time.
Main problem was I couldn't really drink due to the peer group I was with.
See all those people enjoying themselves? They aren't sober...!

[43034]

Are they fit?

[groundcontrol]

Watch Yes Man and then decide.

[davepoth]

You're 90 minutes from Reading judging by your profile.

What I'd do is this. Pull a sickie, go (but not with your annoying friends), and go home each night instead of camping.

[extraT]

had a friend who would take a spare tent and a cheap plastic chair to any festical he went to....

he cut out the middle of the chair, fixed a carrier bag in its place and of course it went into the spare tent which he backed onto his main tent for a.... private, ensuite toilet

[Vaud]

Buy a cheap tent. Go. If you like it, stay. If you don't then "become sick " whilst there and go home?

No risk to friendship, max loss is a tent. (Note you leave it behind for max brownie points)

[eliot]

iva cosworth]c said:

throw a sickie.

d: ask the Internet

[Stugots]

Go. Your guaranteed to be balls deep every night

[Ikemi]

OP, I had similar fears to yourself several years ago. In the end, I decided not to bother. I sold the tickets on and bought something far more fun (IMHO!) for the c.£150! I don't feel as though I've missed out and instead, I've done lots of one night gigs instead ... If I had to do Reading Festival now, I think I'd need to stay at a nearby hotel/B&B, just so you have fresh water/comfy bed/toilet/shower at hand!

[Hoofy]

davepoth said:

You're 90 minutes from Reading judging by your profile.

What I'd do is this. Pull a sickie, go (but not with your annoying friends), and go home each night instead of camping.

Or book a local B&B (suspect they're all booked out by wusses like me, though).

[Axionknight]

Just go, you'll be fine - it's a field in England, not the bloody rain forest.

[southendpier]

Stay at home and spare them. They're probably regretting asking a miserable sod like you anyway.

[Flying Fish]

southendpier said:

Stay at home and spare them. They're probably regretting asking a miserable sod like you anyway.

Agreed
"Poor me I have to go to a festival with 3 birds."

Quit your whining. Man up, drink some piss snort some blow and enjoy it.


Assume this is a troll post.

[Vaud]

ChemicalChaos has a secret brother!

[budfox]

Don't go.

One of the birds is probably a bit of a moose and you wouldn't want to do her
Second one is probably OK, but a bit stuck up and doesn't want to get ploughed in a field.
Third one is the pick of the bunch, but sadly she doesn't fancy you. Shame because she loves it and will do a a different bloke every night whilst you're trying to sleep.

[Dan_1981]

Why don't you want to go?

It'll be brilliant.

Getting pissed in a field, with three mates for a weekend, decent(ish) music.

Infact if I were you i'd try and bag an early entry ticket to get an extra night there.

Oh and definitely don't come home on Sunday evening - leave mid morning Monday.

5 days of fun in a field!