When your friends bring mystery friends: The Thread

[Cherita Chen]

Originally Posted by HEADSTRUCK

I am giving you guys rides but I am still there solo. I am not responsible for sheltering you or taking care of you guys. We may all ride in the same cars but we are all solo when it comes to the weekend.

Except me of course

[HEADSTRUCK]

Originally Posted by Cherita Chen

Except me of course

Yes I am sheltering you I guess.

[kingsblend420]

Originally Posted by Monklish

I couldn't begin to describe the six hours of incessantly annoying things he was saying. But the reason it came to a head like that is that he just wouldn't respond to commands to stop talking. His boyfriend and I were both yelling at him to just shut the fuck up as we were trapped in a hot car in traffic for nine hours and he was constantly, constantly, constantly lisping the most irritating bullshit.

Eventually, I told him that if he didn't start shutting the fuck up I was gonna pull over and beat the shit out of him. It literally took five seconds before he said, "are you sure we're going the right way?"

[influence]

In '07 my friend asked me to buy him 5 extra tickets for Friday the night before off of Craigslist because he had 4 other friends coming. Being a good friend, I said sure I just want to go and have a good time, the more the merrier! The next day, it turned out only my friend came and his other 4 guys bailed out on us last minute the day of the event so we drove alone to Coachella. I ended up having 4 extra tickets...

During Coachella we were getting food and coincidentally saw them inline in front of me with 4 girls. I was pissed, plus the girls were good looking so that made it worse. At first I told my friend "Hey, let's just order our food first and handle them later..." So we did, and it turned out one of the guys had ordered the last falafel sandwich to be made for a while and that was what I wanted... I got even more furious inside.

After ordering our foods they noticed us and after getting my food seeing them from a distance I had noticed that one of the girls that were with them turned out to be my ex that broke up with me 3 weeks before. So I went up to them and was like "Dude, WTF? I bought tickets for you guys and you bailed out on me and now you're here with her? Out of all people?" First of all, I didn't really know these guys, they were like secondhand acquaintances. One of the guys looked at me and responded in an evil laugh "Hahaha, you fool! You've got nothing on us! We have you're food and your woman! What are you going to do now?"

I then looked up at the sky, it looked red to me even though I knew it really wasn't. The heat had got to me so I dropped my food and took off my shirt. My socks had been soaking from walking in the heat all day so I took off my shoes. I piled up all my stuff and called him out to a duel, he acknowledged that it was going down. As he stepped away from his group, I took a deep breath and with all my force I was able to gather all the heat surrounding me and threw a massive fireball at his chest.

And that was that.

[djandrews25]

Last year, my buddies brought one of their friends. This guy got so drunk in the beer garden we started daring him to do shit. The first idea was to do the party guy freak(a jackass skit) to many different females. After we watched him get punched by a few girls, we decided to leave the beer garden to get a decent spot for roger waters. On the way, he kept up the party boy routine(which was fucking hilarious), but dissappeared somewhere along the way. Apparently he ended up going to a hotel with some random whore that he was doing the "party boy" to, and freaked out in the morning when he saw her.

[All Your Base]

I'm bringing a friend to PAW that I've hung out with a bit at parties and massives and what not. A couple of weeks ago I had 'the talk' with him.

My only Coachella rule, I told him, was there there will be things I want to see that you might not....things you want to see and I might not. No guilt, no tagging along. Every man for himself. Coachella is supposed to be an exercise in freedom and lack of responsibility. He took it exactly the way I wanted him to.

[CalmerThanYou]

Originally Posted by MissingPerson

I still haven't figured out the best way to do this, because at some point in the conversation, it's doomed to become apparent.

i just tell them, "hey, these are some people from the coachella message boards."

This has happened 4-5 times, and it's never been awkward.

[BakForMore]

First Coachella I went to in 2001, my sister brought a mutual friend and turns out he was the biggest BITCH I've ever met! He complained about the heat, line up, drive, hotel(whcih we shared to save money), and everything you could think of. My girlfriend (at the time) and I split from the group once inside the ground. It almost killed the trip, but we did our own thing and didn't let up get to us. This will be my 5th Coachella, and haven't hadn't a bad experience since then.

[pocket]

Originally Posted by djandrews25

Last year, my buddies brought one of their friends. This guy got so drunk in the beer garden we started daring him to do shit. The first idea was to do the party guy freak(a jackass skit) to many different females. After we watched him get punched by a few girls, we decided to leave the beer garden to get a decent spot for roger waters. On the way, he kept up the party boy routine(which was fucking hilarious), but dissappeared somewhere along the way. Apparently he ended up going to a hotel with some random whore that he was doing the "party boy" to, and freaked out in the morning when he saw her.

based on this i am guessing you are a bro....

[djandrews25]

Originally Posted by pocket

based on this i am guessing you are a bro....

based on this im guessing you have no story...

[justinaqui]

No one responded to that fireball story? I loved it. I have no story though.

[greghead]

Originally Posted by influence

One of the guys looked at me and responded in an evil laugh "Hahaha, you fool! You've got nothing on us! We have you're food and your woman! What are you going to do now?"

I then looked up at the sky, it looked red to me even though I knew it really wasn't. The heat had got to me so I dropped my food and took off my shirt. My socks had been soaking from walking in the heat all day so I took off my shoes. I piled up all my stuff and called him out to a duel, he acknowledged that it was going down. As he stepped away from his group, I took a deep breath and with all my force I was able to gather all the heat surrounding me and threw a massive fireball at his chest.

Fucking.Win.

[emtgreg]

The fireball story was win.

[All Your Base]

Originally Posted by emtgreg

The fireball story was win.

First thing I thought of:

[drewdrewdrew]

So about a week ago my friend calls me up and asks me, "do you think tha tmy girlfriend could come?" I honestly hate this girl and she has done all she can to destroy my friendship with him, so I easily tell him no. This is our one weekend out of the year to just have fun and fuck around, not have to worry about shit like girlfriends and their incessant arguements.

What does he do? He gives her my cell number and she calls me drunk and crying at 3 am on a saturday begging me to give her my blessing to come.

What do I do? I told her no.

Moral of the story? Shes probably coming anyway. Yay for drugs.

[NightGoat]

I'm going to be the mystery friend this year.

[Drewski27]

well be a good mystery friend then. and make sure you take the blue pill.

[jdaws]

Originally Posted by influence

I then looked up at the sky, it looked red to me even though I knew it really wasn't. The heat had got to me so I dropped my food and took off my shirt. My socks had been soaking from walking in the heat all day so I took off my shoes. I piled up all my stuff and called him out to a duel, he acknowledged that it was going down. As he stepped away from his group, I took a deep breath and with all my force I was able to gather all the heat surrounding me and threw a massive fireball at his chest.

And that was that.

was the guys name duken?

[lurker_with_a_bush]

Originally Posted by malcolmjamalawesome

Have you ever gone to Coachella and one of the people in your crew brought some wackass friend but they were all like "No way dude this friend is totally sweet" and then when you get there they start freaking out and they're like "Fuck you dude I'm gonna leave early and get a flight home this sucks!" and you're all like "Who the fuck brought this guy?"

This thread is for that.

Guilty.

[locachica73]

My sister and I have been planning on going back to coachella since we left the polo fields last year. We planned on camping and also having a back up hotel just for showers and mid morning sun escape. We had so much fun together last year when we did the same thing and I was really looking forward to it.

This year she has decided to bring her new boyfriend and her friend Susan. They both live in Oregon and hate the heat. She doesn't drink or do drugs, he does drink but has stomach problems so whenever he drinks he gets sick. And my sister who does smoke weed on occasion will probably not smoke now because of the other people she is bringing.

I have since decided to skip the hotel and just hang out with all the PAW'ers instead. I refuse to let anyone ruin what I have looked forward to now for a year. I think I might actually be more excited now then I was with my previous plans.

[Dogvolta]

Originally Posted by pocket

based on this i am guessing you are a bro....

He is from Huntington.....whatever though, Coachella can be for bros too.
And epic win to the fireball story. That was pure goodness.

[amyzzz]

Originally Posted by locachica73

My sister and I have been planning on going back to coachella since we left the polo fields last year. We planned on camping and also having a back up hotel just for showers and mid morning sun escape. We had so much fun together last year when we did the same thing and I was really looking forward to it.

This year she has decided to bring her new boyfriend and her friend Susan. They both live in Oregon and hate the heat. She doesn't drink or do drugs, he does drink but has stomach problems so whenever he drinks he gets sick. And my sister who does smoke weed on occasion will probably not smoke now because of the other people she is bringing.

I have since decided to skip the hotel and just hang out with all the PAW'ers instead. I refuse to let anyone ruin what I have looked forward to now for a year. I think I might actually be more excited now then I was with my previous plans.

I hear ya, loca! Jacob decided to bring his sister and her husband this year, and he expects me not to do anything untoward...but I'm going to anyway.
I haven't broached the subject of getting a camping pass to hang out with people yet--not sure what he'd say.

[paganman7]

Originally Posted by chairmenmeow47

at the last minute, my BFF at the time had these three girlfriends that wanted to get rid of their hotel since they couldn't afford it and just wanted to crash on our floor. i said fine and that i'd only charge them $30 a piece and i also put their room up on the coachella boards and facilitated in getting rid of their reservation to help them out since they were broke. i had charged everyone else like $80 a piece since they were getting beds., but i only asked for $30 from them since they were sleeping on the floor.

I stopped reading right there. I thought BFFs were, you know, 'forever'?

Sorry homie, I get hung up on mundane nonsense at times.

[locachica73]

Originally Posted by amyzzz

I hear ya, loca! Jacob decided to bring his sister and her husband this year, and he expects me not to do anything untoward...but I'm going to anyway.
I haven't broached the subject of getting a camping pass to hang out with people yet--not sure what he'd say.

I have lived most of my life always trying to make others happy, I have decided that it is my turn. So if others fuck with my happy I just change my plan. Probably not as easy when married but I am really hoping you find a night to sneak away and come play with us.

[ZackQ]

Originally Posted by malcolmjamalawesome

Have you ever gone to Coachella and one of the people in your crew brought some wackass friend but they were all like "No way dude this friend is totally sweet" and then when you get there they start freaking out and they're like "Fuck you dude I'm gonna leave early and get a flight home this sucks!" and you're all like "Who the fuck brought this guy?"

This thread is for that.

Um, no....but that's my number one fear.

[NotQuiteNixon]

im mildly concerned that this year is going to be the year where "that other guy" comes along and fuck things up....its gunna be a chick though...its hard to tell your hot friend that shes not allowed to bring other chicks but ive meet this girl a few times and can tell its gunna suck. hope she gets aids and cant come or something ^_^

[All Your Base]

If you're worried about it, TELL THEM NOW. Straighten it all out, even if it means hurt feelings. You have three weeks for them to get over it. DON'T WAIT UNTIL COACHELLA! It will fuck things up.

[frozen pilgrim]

give everyone you plan on bringing a scare talk. basically, try and talk them out of it. there's nothing worse than trying to accommodate a friend who can't handle the heat, both literally and metaphorically

[dantoro]

Originally Posted by Donaldj

Nice save...

I really wish all the best for everyone this year, it's a drag to have someone around who isn't having as much of a good experience you are.

I won't let anyone drag me down at Coachella...!! DITCH the lame and find other people to share the love with...


>>>>> Influence that FireBall ending was superb