Bonnaroo

I recently attended the 200 band music festival in Manchester Tennessee known as Bonnaroo for my high school graduation gift. Upon leaving rain began to fall and it gradually became harder and harder to see. Eventually it got to the point that I could no longer see anything through my windshield, and I had to slow down (I was doing the speed limit on the parkway which is 70). However while slowing down I felt like my car was bouncing, like literally bouncing on the front wheels, it instantly became clear to me that we were hydro plaining. I knew from my parents that if you are hydro plaining it is better to not hit the brake then to hit it, you should just take your foot off the gas and slow down as such, this however proved to be much harder than it sounded because I had forgotten that I had the cruise control on, I was just driving with my foot on the gas just to the point where it would not hinder the cruise control. So since I did not slow down we hydro plained and my car actually lifted off the ground and did a complete 180 in the air and we LITERALLY FLEW into a ditch. However when we entered the ditch I believe that the cruise control pulling us at a constant 70 mph prevented us from flying down into the ditch and ramping into the other side of the parkway. Now if this was not bad enough once we got everything sorted out the tow truck driver took an extra hour and a half to get to us (we were 14 miles out of Owensboro) and it was pouring rain. Next we decided to still go and we took my friends car. So up to this point I have had a car crash that resulted in a fender bender and a popped tire, and no one injured (lucky right?). Then when we started into nashville we stopped to fix the luggage in the trunk because it was bouncing around, we had food in there so we didnt want it to be destroyed when we got to Bonnaroo, however our hamburgers were already bad so we threw them out, and I sat my phone and root beer on top of the car whilst we were working in the trunk. Then we proceeded to leave and my phone and rootbeer flew off the top of the car, we thought it was gravel hitting the car so we didnt stop for it, it wasnt until 45 minutes later that we realized what it was that flew off the car. Also somewhere in all this mess 300 dollars cash came out of my pocket and is lost forever (most likely in the crash). So up to this point I have a wrecked car, no money, and no phone, yet we press on.

Once we reach Bonnaroo we unpack and realize we have no pillows, or blankets (which isnt that bad because it was over 100 degrees all 4 days). When we finally get all unpacked and everything we called my parents and they graciously wired me 300 dollars for my trip. I ended up running through all that money within almost 2 days because we were so ridiculously unprepared that we had to buy food almost everyday, water everyday, and I had to pay for multiple showers to that I did not overheat (long brown curly hair attracts not only gorgeous women, but copious amount of heat... ya win some ya lose some I guess). So now with little money and all of our food spoiled we believe nothing else could go wrong, which is reasonable, right? Then I discover that I am missing a pair of shorts so I only have on pair of shorts to wear for 4 days (nasty right, you should have seen the other people there who didnt shower all four days). If that wasn't enough on the third day of the four day trip my friend lost the only key we had to his car. Which was 200 dollars to replace at Bonnaroo. So instead his dad drove 3 hours to drop off his key.

All in all it was prolly the best and worst experience of my life, because I got to see my musical idol Jack White perform live, which was SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!