Kristin: So, what’d ya think of the festival tonight?
Joe: Oh, I thought it was great. I had a great time the entire day, actually.
Kristin: Yeah, good, good, me too.
Joe: Y’know, I thought it was a great idea for us all to meet over at Tim’s place. I
mean you and I were obviously running late because he lives out in the boonies.
But, uh, y’know, better late than never.
Kristin: Yeah, I agree. When you get a group of people together to go to an event
like this, it just adds to the enjoyment, y’know, the fun. And it’s kind of like the saying
goes, the more the merrier.
Joe: Yeah, I totally agree. And, y’know, I, I think it was really important that we all
went to the concert together in one group. Because, y’know, it was so large it would
have made it really difficult to find, uh, people in our group if we would have all gone
separately.
Kristin: Right. I mean a-…
Joe: It actually, it actually surprised me because, that the crowd was so large. I
mean the tickets cost an arm and a leg. So I was kinda thinkin’ that maybe the
crowd wouldn’t be as big.
Kristin: Yeah, but, price doesn’t usually deter you from going to hear music, right?
Joe: No, it’s true. You’re right.
Kristin: But, um, speaking of us staying together, it just was making me think of the
crowds. And I just didn’t think that in general the, the festival was laid out that well.
Joe: Well, there were four different stages.
Kristin: No, there were six.
Joe: Oh there were six stages?
Kristin: Yeah.
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kind of: sort of
impractical: not useful
tunnel: a place that goes
through or under a
blocked area
bottlenecked: unable to
move (because it is too
crowded)
random: scattered
forge: to push through
hassle: inconvenience
ID: short for identification
wristband: something
that you wear around
your wrist
Joe: S-, see we only went to two of ‘em.
Kristin: I know.
Joe: But, the, uh, stages were kind of far apart and y’know what the, the most
impractical, uh, design was? I thought that they, uh, they had very narrow walkways
between the stages.
Kristin: Yes.
Joe: And sometimes you had to go through a little tunnel, like a foot tunnel…
Kristin: Yep.
Joe: …and, uh, there’d be thousands of people trying to go through a space that
only maybe twenty people could go through at a time.
Kristin: Oh, yeah. The crowd would get completely, completely bottlenecked.
Joe: Yeah, exactly. So tryin’ to go from one stage to the next was just, uh… It took
a lot of time and effort.
Kristin: Yeah, I agree.
Joe: So that was one thing that was, y’know, just not properly planned for on their
part.
Kristin: No! And then there’d be all t