The night I knew cannabis wasnt right for me. delighting japanese tourists and the beanfield fiasco
Stonehenge free festival sometime back in the 80s.
Was a part time new age traveller and funded my life by selling jewellery, hash pipes and chillums at festivals.
So there Iam at Stonehenge. one of the crowd who tear down the barrier and storm the sacred stones on the Solstice morning, the police just step back, one cop to each 50 revellers they really couldnt do anything else.
And what a day that followed.
To say I got wasted is an understaement.
Late that night when I just couldnt function any more I decided to call it a day and find my tent/bed.
Wandered around until I found myself in front of a tent that looked like mine.
Unzipped the door, looked in and thought 'no this isnt my tent'
So wandered around the site again.
Came back to the same tent.
Again I looked.
Oooh they have the same sleeping bag as me.
They have the same rucksac as me, but this is not my tent.
Another circuit of the festival brings me back to that tent again.
Ooh they have the same jewellery cases as me, and a box of chillums like mine, but this is not my tent.
Another few circuits with the same results and I end up thinking ' I dont care whos bloody tent this is I'm going to sleep in it.
Wakes next day in my tent surrounded by my things and the realisation I wasted about 4 hours of my life I'll never get back due to being so wasted I didnt recognise my own tent and belongings.
I quit the weed right then.
Was 10 yrs before I imbibed again and then I just fell asleep.
Weed is just isnt for me.

At the same festival I got naked, lay down in the teepee village to get an all over tan, legs spread.
Was chilling out until I heard a commotion.
A group of 20+ japanese tourists all clicking away and chattering excitedly .
Looks up, shrugs and lets them get on with taking pics of large naked english hippy lady.
That could probably been included in last weeks unexpected nudity QOTW

For some reason I decided to hitch home and left all my belongings in a travellers bus.
Next seen on national TV when the Battle of the Beanfeild made the news.
I watched a bus being smashed up on TV with my stuff on board.
Met up with them later and got my belongings back.


Festivals?
The 80's really had it nailed
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 1:20, Reply)