Each year I'm 'lucky' enough to be given free tickets to a very well known music festival which runs over four days (live nearby so organisers give local residents tickets to keep them sweet).
It's your usual hippy fest with lots of workshops, vege food, healing yurts and a variety of music.
Each year I go, I become more bored of the cliche hippydom, for example faces full of glitter, posh white youths wearing ironic vintage clothes, dub beats in the background, overpriced drinks, pious recycling regimes, home educated children called 'Oak' and 'Cloud' being wheeled around in metal wagons with fairy lights around the edges at 3am, the constant wondering from tent to tent, the illusion of freedom and the naive art work everywhere.
I must be getting old but these events just don't do it for me anymore, I see men and women in their fifties and sixties wearing fairy outfits and elf ears and it just gives me this, 'oh just grow up' reaction inside.
I dislike this judgemental threatened Katie Hopkins like beast that seems to rise up inside me each time, but I think next year I will just sell my much coveted ticket to a more appreciative visitor.
I am BU aren't I!?
AIBU?
To be at a festival and wish everyone would just grow up!?
bumbleclat · 26/08/2016 03:03
We took the kids to Disney today. There were adults there without kids. Ok I suppose with the big rides I sort of get that. But some were going on the get to drive a car ride and spinning tea cups for under sevens. Without kids. Dh and I were 
. You can drive a real car if you want!
I think you're right, it just doesn't do it for me anymore but it did when I was 15/16 (now 32)
Just need to figure out what does do it for me in the same way as all this nonsense used to.
I sat on a bio toilet earlier and it stank of vinegar, poo and sawdust, had a wet toilet seat which got all over my thighs and of course there was no loo roll so I had to use TK Max receipts that were in my bag so now if I want to bring that rug and questionable kaftan back, I can't because the receipts are covered in wee, vinager and sawdust.
Of course they are.
really not sure why you bother going if you don't like it!
also not sure about the relevance of older people enjoying themselves 
what are you offended by??
its a music festival - so most people are there for the music, surely?
I'm 48 (not far off those sad people in their fifties...) and was at a festival last weekend (not in the UK), and it was amazing! Singing Creep with Thom Yorke with 30,000 other people was something not to be missed 
Out of interest, do you also get cross at photos of people showing off having fun on Facebook?
Hmm I don't like Pokemon or Disney movies but do have my childhood bear next to my bed. And a cuddly toy I [shock horror] bought as an adult (in my defence it's a souvenir!) Not sure where that places me on the immaturity scale. Erm I left home at 18 and have always paid my rent on time and done housework if that helps?
it just doesn't do it for me anymore but it did when I was 15/16 (now 32). Just need to figure out what does do it for me in the same way as all this nonsense used to
What really gets me is the sort of shallow commercialised hippie thing. The idea of being open minded, accepting, in tune with nature, not into material possessions, blah blah - none of that, just stick on some glitter and flowers in yer hair and pose for a selfie on your latest generation iphone. Oh goodness, now I sound like the old hippie man I met who was moaning that backpackers in India weren't the same anymore because they weren't chucking their passports into the sea and had a ticket home booked! 
Am a weird anomly - quite middle class (not income wise!), fairly sensible, but with a "hippie" heart, you might say if you wanted to sound like a wanker. Fuck - is that a hipster? Anyway... am I the only one?
Incidentally I did meet a lovely older couple who had been to India in the 60s/chucking passport into sea with whoop of freedom days. They returned to visit 40yrs later - they seemed to have retained a relaxed sense of adventure and wonder at the world, without being irresponsible, immature, or morons.
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