A torch. Or a flaming torch if you needed to specify but I canât say itâs something you come across often enough to have ever caused any confusion.
I (American) remember reading Lion Witch and the Wardrobe for the first time and thinking âwow, the Brits must have been beyond desperate if the kids are using fire torches in this country estate house!â And then getting to the batteries burning out- realized it was a flashlight. I definitely thought it was odd, but itâs still understandable. Itâs a stick thatâs lit on one end, after all.
It is fun on paper, it's much less fun if you're exhausted after 3 days of working on the festival, and depending on the festival you might have to be careful about needles.
Back home they had this event where people would get into intertubes and float down the river (and yes, they'd tear up the intertubes and let them float down the river to pollute it, leaving the local Indian res to clean it up), and the day after you could make some bank by walking the shore of the river and finding shit left behind, like jewelry, wallets and such.
Similar vein, but when my sister was at uni she got a job emptying out the dorms of the first years. Anything valuable had to be turned in, but she found a massive pack of dishwasher tablets, and didn't have to buy any for herself for most of the following year!
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u/Vinegarinmyeye 8h ago
Been going to festivals for decades, stick around to the very end helping clean up.
Find SO MUCH good stuff.
Wallets with cash, drugs, jewellery, phones... Enough free booze to sink a frigate.