WIBU to bring a camping chair to football

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Standing in the rain waiting my kids play football. It’s on the common so only trees to shelter under. So I’m thinking next week of bringing a camping chair to sit on. Too much or genius idea?

We do this! And sometimes we’re even bring the little briefcase stove and make bacon baps

YANBU, we do this every week. Why wouldn't you?
Love the stove idea

I always used to take a chair to sit on, 90 mins in the cold wet weather is no fun. Take a flask of hot coffee too! There used to be a little line of us all sitting on chairs hugging cups and chatting watching the football

Oh bacon baps would have been fab!!

Bacon baps fresh off the cooker 😲 that is fucking awesome.

Okay folks. Good to know! Next week I will bring the chair!!

People usually bring the shooting stick type chairs (as more portable) but I think the bigge foldable ones would work just as well

I'd totally do it and bring some wrapped bacon or sausage buns too.

We do this at DS rugby matches. We sit and watch /chat. It's a long time to be standing in a cold field!!

I take a chair every week! And two little ones for my girls to watch too.

Lots of people take chairs but maybe you need one of these.
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I take my camping chair and a flask of coffee every Sunday. I'm thinking bacon rolls tomorrow now. What I'd really like is one of those pop.up tents but I fear that might be taking it a bit far

The bacon baps make us very popular (we always bring extras)!

But we don’t do that if the club house is open and doing the same as in our area that’s a charity/fund raising thing for that local club.

In the deep winter I also bring my hot water bottle.

I always have a cup of tea in a flask, and I always kick myself (mentally) when I forget the chair and someone turns up with one.
My parents leave camping chairs in their car for precisely this reason. My car is just too small for that, gah!

Ha those pods are hilarious but taking it a tad too fair, non?

I would love to have the nerve to use one of those pods

I keep 2 in the car and always take them both to edge of pitch in case someone else wants to sit. Much more comfy.

How could it BU? We’ve brought normal Ikea folding chairs down before, loads of people bring camping chairs at ours - makes sense as there’s nowhere else to sit

Camping chair, a flask and a blanket for your knees

I always take a camping chair & a coffee. If it's raining, I take large golf umbrella.

Camping chair, waterproof blanket and a neck contoured hot water bottle with a flask under the chair.

My parents always had 2 in the car so they could use them I mine and my nrkthera football games. It's something 'everyone' does. So go for it!

I would definitely take the camping chair. Additionally, I would be dressed in thermal underwear, warm joggers, a cosy hoodie, waterproof trousers, waterproof coat, baseball cap (to be worn between the hoodie and the waterproof hood to keep the rain off my glasses - a real pet hate of mine) and would be carrying a recently made hot water bottle, a flask of hot Ribena and a large, waterproof parasol - which I would stick in the ground next to my chair to create a circular 'safe-zone', out of the rain.

YANBU, though I might B-a-little-bit-U (and probably quite embarrassing)!

Thank goodness my children aren't into sports which have weekend practice sessions or matches - I suspect I wouldn't be terribly good at being a 'Supporter', but well done you! Here, have this to warm you up:

I always took my camping chair when I was watching DD3 playing hockey. I parked it at the side of the pitch once I had walked the dog and we both sat there and watched her. Why not?

I was far from alone doing this and it made life far more comfortable, especially on days when she was playing in mini tournaments and we would end up there for the day. DH had one of his own too.

Well done for posting the most banal aibu of the day

Thanks @Tvstar 🤗 I’m proud of that prize! 😉

I haven’t seen anyone with a camping chair at training before hence wondering if I was breaching some sort of parent-watching-sport etiquette. Blankets on the ground in summer, yes. Chairs no. But I will start a new trend! I am already back in thermals/big down puffa coat/sorrel winter boots so it seems like the logical next step