6450 - So, I got conned into going to this stupid ass Indy 500 race this weekend. What an absolute shit show this is going to be. My girlfriend's group of college friends go every year and take an old, detroit diesel powered, blue bird school bus that they converted to a party bus. Sounds like a great time, except none of them actually watch the race and they admit that it's just an excuse for a multi-day drinking binge. We camp near the bus in a grass parking lot, that is actually just a field. Seriously. We have to mow the grass before we can park there, as it's almost knee deep. 350,000 people show up for the race and 30,000-50,000 people are camping in the same lot as us. Gun shots and stabbings are a somewhat regular occurrence, though the police have started to get a better handle on it. There are a few bathroom and shower trailers available, for which everyone waits in line for hours. Some end up shitting next to their vehicles.
Last month I urged the group to buy tickets for the race ahead of time. They said "the Indy 500 has never sold out in it's history, so don't worry, we'll buy tickets at the gate". Well guess what...IT'S SOLD OUT.
@#$%ing idiots. I was in the Navy for nearly a decade and a multi-day drinking binge in the heat and scattered thunderstorms still doesn't sound good to me.
I hope this is the last year I have to go to this shit. I'd love to see the cars up close or get seats where you can actually see something, but they get infield, grass seating where you can only see the portion of the track that is directly in front of you and they are right next to the fence where you get smoked in the face with shrapnel if there happens to be a crash close by and definitely go deaf for the rest of the weekend if you don't have earplugs.
But sure, I like sleeping outside for multiple days in 85 degree weather while it thunderstorms and everyone is drunk and shitting all over the place amid drunk and drug addled gun and knife fights. :lol:
Idiots.