r/Wellthatsucks 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/DefiantDonut7 8h 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?!?

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u/Opening-Tea-257 7h ago

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.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 6h ago

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)