coachella ASSumptions

[Vic Viper]

i ASSumed the camping spaces would be 8x8 this year. they were actually 7x14.

Yeah wtf.

[psychic friend]

i dont know if that's true but that is bigger!

[Boourns]

At least 10% of the people there had this $30 orange dome tent from Wal-Mart that was a bit too wide for the spot. I left that fucking thing there since I hated it so much. Let the bums have it.

[rage patton]

That after one year of Coachella... I would be hooked.

I was right.

[Blinken]

An ASSumption means you were wrong and an ASS because of it.

[rage patton]

An ASSumption means you were wrong and an ASS because of it.

I couldn't think of any, but I wanted to contribute anyways. So that is what I came up with. I guess I made an ass out of myself by not attending earlier then 07 actually...

[PassiveTheory]

I assumed everyone would bag on this year based on no logical reason.

But... you were right.

[Blinken]

I couldn't think of any, but I wanted to contribute anyways. So that is what I came up with. I guess I made an ass out of myself by not attending earlier then 07 actually...

damn, I did the same thing.

[fiopadp7791]

At least 10% of the people there had this $30 orange dome tent from Wal-Mart that was a bit too wide for the spot. I left that fucking thing there since I hated it so much. Let the bums have it.

I was one of those 10%. I wasn't gonna lug a tent all the way from Minneapolis (since I was flying), and I wasn't gonna lug that piece-of-shit orange tent home either, so I donated it to my neightobrs who wanted it. I'll probably buy the same tent again next year lol.

[Vic Viper]

i dont know if that's true but that is bigger!

Except for the fact that two single campers were assigned a 7' x 14' spot, effectively giving them 7' x 7', not 8' x 8'.

And that you aren't given extra space in a square. What good does it do to have a tent thats bigger than 8' x 8' for more than one person if you're moving into your neighbor's spot? Luckily nobody really gives a shit, its just kind of embarrassing/awkward having to crowd somebody else.

Smaller tent next year. Much.

[Boourns]

I assumed that the blisters on my feet would have healed by now.

They stopped hurting after several days, but there's still that probably-dead, saggy skin in places on my feet.

[BROKENDOLL]

Prior to 2004 I thought Coachella was just a festival of music I wouldn't get into because it wasn't Rock 'n' Roll, or Metal. I've gone every year since and now most of my CD collection is a dust coated archive of classic rock groups because I'm working on my new selection of Electronic/Techno/Dance.

[PC-2 Violence]

I assumed everyone would bag on this year based on no logical reason.

Everyone was until they were proved wrong.

[Sonicifyouwantit]

Prior to 2004 I thought Coachella was just a festival of music I wouldn't get into because it wasn't Rock 'n' Roll, or Metal. I've gone every year since and now most of my CD collection is a dust coated archive of classic rock groups because I'm working on my new selection of Electronic/Techno/Dance.

Nice!

[fasttrack]

Except for the fact that two single campers were assigned a 7' x 14' spot, effectively giving them 7' x 7', not 8' x 8'.

And that you aren't given extra space in a square. What good does it do to have a tent thats bigger than 8' x 8' for more than one person if you're moving into your neighbor's spot? Luckily nobody really gives a shit, its just kind of embarrassing/awkward having to crowd somebody else.

Smaller tent next year. Much.

exactly. i instructed my neighbor (whynotsmile) to point the door of his tent toward the empty half of my 7 x 14 so that he could get out of his tent. i used the empty spot next to his tent for sitting.

[RoyBrisby]

I assumed it wouldn't be that hot. Or not as hot as people made it out to be.

I'm an ass.

[CakesBakes]

I assumed there would be some really good veg. food, which there wasn't (unless i missed it?).
I assumed, being that they've done this a few times before, the entrance to the campground would be organized and not the shit show that it ended up being.

[slurpee]

After I went, I ASSumed I would bring tons of friends from Chicago to Coachella. Every year I tell my self I need to get a larger and larger group of people to go.

Long story short, we never get that large of a group from Chicago. Out of the past 6 years, the largest group we brought was 6 people.

[amyzzz]

Six people seems like a lot to me. I don't even think I have that many friends, period.

[frozen pilgrim]

to whoever said the camping spaces were 7x14: you're wrong. they were square.

[locachica73]

I assumed I would be stressed out from the crowds but there was only one instance where I felt any stress and I worked my way out of the crowd and found some space and I was fine.

[frozen pilgrim]

I assumed there'd be a lot more unkempt, dirty, bonnaroo/burning man types. I was pleasantly surprised. also, the 100% lack of emos is something I could never have predicted, coming from the emo capital of the god damn world.

[SFChrissy]

I ASSumed I would be throwing my underwear towards jack white's general area, but I flaked :/

Pussy!!!

[slurpee]

I assumed there'd be a lot more unkempt, dirty, bonnaroo/burning man types. I was pleasantly surprised. also, the 100% lack of emos is something I could never have predicted, coming from the emo capital of the god damn world.

I totally fell into this trap as well. I had been to a bunch of festivals in the past and expected Coachella to be a hippy priest bum out.

[MeowMixer]

[frozen pilgrim]

I fuckin' love kitties.
I have 5.

[sbessiso]

Are you a Weird Cat Lady???

[MeowMixer]

We're all weird cat ladies inside...

[trancehiphop]

^ ROFL!

[rskapcat]

I fuckin' love kitties.
I have 5.

Me, too. (Both the sentiment and the number of cats.)