Everbody's got one, surely.
Lets start this one off then.
Picture the scene, Mayhem 2000, we'd been playing since January that year (as Kellys Hero's Young Guns team), I can't remember whether we were K2 or not then...anyway, we managed to gain free entry into Mayhem and of course we were ****ting ourselves as we were greener than than grass. Everything we knew was what the lads from Kellys taught us or did for us, we hadn't a clue what we were doing so we left our accomodation up to Kellys. This turned out to be a couple of badly pitched tents in a field.
Now, anyone who played Mayhem 2000 will remember just how f'kin wet and cold it was, it pissed it down through the night as we travelled down late on to our awaiting tents that the boys had promised to have already set up nicely for us. We got there, real dark, real cold and proper wet through. Tony and co. directed us to our tents, now the Kellys family are quite knowledgeable(?) and obviously had some super size family tents goin' on so we thought 'sweet, we'll have a top tent for the whole team'...no, no, no, not the case. Three to a two man tent. We found ours which was perfectly situated in the middle of a pond, a nice two inch deep dip in the grass which, as the rain came down over night, turned into a nice two inch deep pool.
Again, picture the scene, 6am, quite warm but uncomfortable due to a bad nights sleep, the tent has almost an inch of water inside and our sleeping bags are wet right through to our skin, to the point of dripping when you got out. We played all day with colds and stiff bodies and spent the next night on the wooden floor in the back of a truck. Awesome.
Moral?? Don't let Kellys set up a tent for you AND hotels are built for a damn good reason.
Big up Kellys for getting us into 'ball and showing us the hard way.
Anyone else got any stories?? I thought this was kinda relevant seeing as Elsham in January is coming up and I've seen some mindless chat of 'camping' flying around. Heed my words.
H-O-T-E-L-S
Lets start this one off then.
Picture the scene, Mayhem 2000, we'd been playing since January that year (as Kellys Hero's Young Guns team), I can't remember whether we were K2 or not then...anyway, we managed to gain free entry into Mayhem and of course we were ****ting ourselves as we were greener than than grass. Everything we knew was what the lads from Kellys taught us or did for us, we hadn't a clue what we were doing so we left our accomodation up to Kellys. This turned out to be a couple of badly pitched tents in a field.
Now, anyone who played Mayhem 2000 will remember just how f'kin wet and cold it was, it pissed it down through the night as we travelled down late on to our awaiting tents that the boys had promised to have already set up nicely for us. We got there, real dark, real cold and proper wet through. Tony and co. directed us to our tents, now the Kellys family are quite knowledgeable(?) and obviously had some super size family tents goin' on so we thought 'sweet, we'll have a top tent for the whole team'...no, no, no, not the case. Three to a two man tent. We found ours which was perfectly situated in the middle of a pond, a nice two inch deep dip in the grass which, as the rain came down over night, turned into a nice two inch deep pool.
Again, picture the scene, 6am, quite warm but uncomfortable due to a bad nights sleep, the tent has almost an inch of water inside and our sleeping bags are wet right through to our skin, to the point of dripping when you got out. We played all day with colds and stiff bodies and spent the next night on the wooden floor in the back of a truck. Awesome.
Moral?? Don't let Kellys set up a tent for you AND hotels are built for a damn good reason.
Big up Kellys for getting us into 'ball and showing us the hard way.
Anyone else got any stories?? I thought this was kinda relevant seeing as Elsham in January is coming up and I've seen some mindless chat of 'camping' flying around. Heed my words.
H-O-T-E-L-S
