DH and Glastonbury

[Bobthecatnapper]

DH was invited to Glastonbury this week by a male work colleague and his wife who apparently have one of these 2 bedroom glamping accommodations at the festival. I asked if I could go with him and he said that he wanted to take his mate (will call him G.) I know G and he has recently split with his wife, very upset about it all, a bit lonely and has apparently "always wanted to go to Glastonbury." OK.

Fast forward to tonight, DH announces he is actually travelling down to Glastonbury on Wednesday and will "work from the festival" until the weekend. I went on the website and while it lists 22nd June as a start date (Wednesday) nothing actually starts until Friday.

I am suspicious about all of it, as DH has some form. Can any Glastonbury expert tell me whether people go on the wednesday to "work from the festival?"

Hmm so husband with a proven track record of lies is telling you he got offered a last minute 2 Glastonbury tickets and a glamping for
free, but - shocker - he’s not taking you…

No wonder you’re suspicious

He isn't going as you cannot transfer tickets. If he is planning on pretending to be the person on the ticket he will be home sooner than planned unless he is an identical twin and looks exactly the same as them, they are extremely hot on that.

Yes but don’t forget @PollyIndia that people who’ve been once or twice know FAR more about it than those who have local or corporate links 😉.

I've been once a few years ago and I agree you literally have Photo ID ticket. You can't just give someone your ticket.

There was fuck all signal most of the time I was there as so many people trying to access it.

And yes plenty to do before the music starts, weds is a normal day to arrive so that part is true.

People always go early for festivals. Same for Leeds / Redding which aren’t as iconic.

Yeah I agree it’s much more likely that he’s got a ticket in the resale with his mate but has just concocted this story to explain why OP wasn’t invited or involved when they were buying the tickets.

How can people come on here and make such broad statements like he’s a LIAR?? Honestly from the info given how can you KNOW that? These are real people — such shit stirrers on here sometimes Jesus Christ. Stop projecting. It’s normal to go a few days earlier for a festival.

I suspect the yurt tickets aren't the same as the ordinary tickets so the stuff about photos may not apply.

One of my Facebook friends says a friend of theirs paid over £10k for luxury yurt at Glastonbury 😱😱😱

(I don't know the detain but I guess that's a group ticket, £2k each for 5 or something)

Besides anything else I'd be really disappointed if my partner chose a mate over me for such an amazing adventure.

OP says DP has form for lying about where he is.
Glastonbury tickets are not transferable - each ticket has your photograph on it.

So unless this friend has the rather expensive VIP/ hospitality tickets then he is a liar. The arrival date is completely irrelevant.

Occam's would suggest liar.

Haven't read all the comments but my friends get there on the Wednesday for when the gates open at 6am. They have queue from 4an and loads of others do the same. It is photo tickets though so unless he looks like the person not going he may not get in.

i agree for the minute if you are not prepared to ask him about this directly, you have to give him the benefit of the doubt.

However, do not accept as proof any vague photographic ‘evidence’ of his being at Glasto, Especially if he sends you vague pics of the crowds, stages etc. I would definitely do a reverse image search to make sure he’s not sending you images he’s found online!

Ask him for a selfie of both him and G and if you know the couple who booked the tickets include them as well! Even if he can’t send them due to “dodgy WiFi” he can show you when he gets home!

If he’s telling the truth, both about being at Glasto and being with G, he should not have issues with this.

I really hope we are all wrong about this, but his behaviour is raising a lot of red flags. He might just be naive and not realise tickets have photos and are non-transferable, but his friends who bought the tickets will definitely know so the question is how can he not know?

I have absolutely noticed this!

Agree with PP that Wednesday sounds feasible but also think likely he always planned to go with G (and colleague), without you, and then thought would be more palatable to pretend to you that it was a last minute fill in situation.

Even if turns out no lying -I would still not be happy, in your shoes, with choosing G over you. Ok in the early stages of relationship (up to 6 months or so) but not after that.

Admittedly they live about 20 miles away, and will be volunteering, but my Facebook feed is full of mates heading down to set up their tents today. It will be especially chaotic this year with so few trains running.

I used to work with somebody who took their campervan down on the Monday or Tuesday. We had a lot of rain yesterday so it's going to get muddy.

There's a Worthy Farm cheese toastie stall already set up so the place must be fairly busy already.

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You still need a ticket, official accommodation can only be booked once you have a ticket, and off site accommodation packages don't include tickets and are not advised as they are often misleading.

Am I the only one whose first thought, on hearing he was going down early to work from the glamping pod, was "Blimey, I wouldn't take my laptop to a campsite at Glastonbury!"?

Sounds like it's time to do some snooping.

I think it's far worse if he's telling the truth (and why not assume his is?). That he really did score fantastic tickets to Glasto, OP wants to go, and he's not taking her.

He's a lying cunt OP.

You deserve better.

The festival isn’t really the issue though, what do you mean by your husband lies about where he is? If you don’t trust him the relationship is over.

You can either be a cool wife, or a happy wife with someone you can actually trust. But if you want the latter, you might have to get divorced first.

It's time to focus on the harsh reality that his first thought on getting an unexpected lovely holiday, is to ditch his partner.

Snooping is a distraction.

So it’s either:

A) he’s telling the truth. His mate has two transferable tickets (maybe VIP, music crew, or hospitality). In which case he’s chosen his friend rather than you. And he’s either lying to work about working from there, or is naive enough to think he can work from there, or he’s booked the time off work and is lying about that

B) He’s lying to you as he booked tickets either in 2919, or on resale and is pretending that they are only just available

C) He’s not going to Glastonbury at all (hence the lie about luxury accommodation as you’d wonder about tents and sleeping bags. Him and his mate are going on a lads holiday together somewhere else, or he’s not going with friend and is going somewhere else with another person

Yes but don’t forget @PollyIndia that people who’ve been once or twice know FAR more about it than those who have local or corporate links 😉.

The OP says nothing whatsoever about his mates being either local or having industry links, if that was the case he’d be saying that wouldn’t he.