Cause they’re either crap tents, or the kids who had them pissed in them etc, or the kids who own them are coming down into the worst Gary depression they’ve had in their life
Jerry/Gary are terms used in a number of subcultures to refer to tourists within the subculture. Like folks that do your hobby once or twice a year, don’t have planning or gear or whatever to really hack it. That’s my best guess. So in this instance I think he is referring to folks who can’t handle their drugs or at least the comedown without being asses. It’s a right of passage, I remember doing similarly stupid stuff before you can handle being on acid for 3 days straight.
No it’s people who fly in to festivals and buy camping gear like it’s disposable—pickup at the Walmart by the airport in the rental car, litter on campgrounds when it’s time to leave
Full confession: I’ve been a person who left a tent at a festival. And the short answer is, I’d basically been drinking and smoking and taking pills and anything I could lay my hands on for 3 days and reality was starting to hit hard by Monday. Don’t think I could have worked out how to put a tent away if you’d given me 5 hours.
That's so common that I daresay it's basic human behavior.
When I take recreational drugs, I take enough to enhance the experience. Everybody else I know takes enough to be the experience.
I arrive and take a hit of mesc. I might take another hit about 3 or 4 hours later. I'm happy af watching the party unfold. Everyone else takes 2 or 3 hits right upon arrival and ends up screaming at the walls.
We are not the same.
(probably dated myself by talking about scleeners)
But then you need to travel with it back home and story it, and there's a good chance the tent isn't in a good state. If you do have a good tent brining it to general camping at reading might not be the best idea.
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u/DefiantDonut7 6h ago
I don’t understand why people are leaving their tents? It’s like 5 minutes to break down and a decent tent isn’t cheap?!?