Pet Hate 2- Bench Rage

[JulesyBoy]

Two Glastos in a row we have been pitched at the edge of the Pyramid field next to one of those wooden benches.

Two Glastos in a row we have got up on the benches to get a better view...we also had small children in our group so it was great for them.

Two Glastos in a row people behind have asked us to get down coz they can't see.

We didn't on the basis that it's Glasto FFS. Half the people in the field didn't have a good view. Move to another location. If we weren't standing on the benches someone else would be. If ya don't like crowds then bog off.

We assumed the whingers were newby towny types whose idea of a trip to the country is an afternoon in Regents Park or the like.

Whinge over.

[Amii]

Afraid I'm on the side of the crowd. I'd be very peeved if someone did this.

Big difference letting the kids see, and standing on it yourself.

As an FYI - grown up in the country all my life. Not a "townie" type.

[olive123]

Let me get this straight. You are peeved with people that want exactly the same as you, a better view? Yet you want the, to have to move but you can stay where you are and block other people's view.

Ok then.

[formed a band]

Maybe I don't go to he pyramid much but I can't think I've seen these benches, however if they are there surely its to be used ?

[Digi]

I'm not much over 5ft tall. If I want to see anything then I have to get up really close to the stage otherwise I stand WAY back so I can see over everyone else. I have to say, I would then be a bit pissed off if someone sitting in front of me then blocked my view by standing on a bench. Nothing I can do about people standing in front of me but standing on a bench in front of someone just seems a bit on the selfish side.

Not sure I would rant and rave about it - life is way too short to get in to arguments. I would probably have a huff and a puff to myself and move to the side

[frostypaw]

Odd post, I always thought what made glasto good was how considerate folk could be. Though tolerance has always been part of that

Ideal for the kids though

[tijuana_man]

Two Glastos in a row people behind have asked us to get down coz they can't see.

[Vieuphoria]

Yep on the side of the crowd too. But I will qualify it by saying, I'm all fine letting the kids stand on it. But you yourself have no more right to deliberately block anybody's view. You all had paid the same so show some politeness to those around. But yes to the kids.

[JulesyBoy]

Well I maintain that the phrase that pays in this instance is first come first served.

If you sit on the benches then all ya staring at are the backs of standing people.

Is anyone seriously suggesting that if we had left the benches vacant noone else would have grabbed the opportunity for a better view?

I agree with the Glasto be tolerant spirit but there is a time & a place.

[georgiebarn]

What if the kids are taller than you though? I stood up on a bench at the back of West Holts to watch Chic. I consciously only did it for three or four songs, I had NO chance of seeing a thing otherwise. If they are right at the back of the field, surely it's ok for a while?

Except if it's muddy, then benches are purely for sitting, dickface

[Digi]

Well I maintain that the phrase that pays in this instance is first come first served.

If you sit on the benches then all ya staring at are the backs of standing people.

Is anyone seriously suggesting that if we had left the benches vacant noone else would have grabbed the opportunity for a better view?

I agree with the Glasto be tolerant spirit but there is a time & a place.

[Big Vern]

The fields are for camping, not stage viewing. The benches are in the stage viewing area, or were this year. Fully within your rights to stand on them to view the stage assuming rhat all there was behind you were people sat in their tents wAnting to see the stage? If people were just stood behind you watching like you were, then yes, its a bit off and id be fucked off too

Edited July 14, 2013 by Big Vern

[Morse Code]

Two Glastos in a row we have been pitched at the edge of the Pyramid field next to one of those wooden benches.

Two Glastos in a row we have got up on the benches to get a better view...we also had small children in our group so it was great for them.

Two Glastos in a row people behind have asked us to get down coz they can't see.

We didn't on the basis that it's Glasto FFS. Half the people in the field didn't have a good view. Move to another location. If we weren't standing on the benches someone else would be. If ya don't like crowds then bog off.

We assumed the whingers were newby towny types whose idea of a trip to the country is an afternoon in Regents Park or the like.

Whinge over.

[JulesyBoy]

_{Cheers Big Vern,,,at least you see sense.}

[amfy]

Thinking about where this means, I think these benches have been right at the back of the Pyramid field for previous Glastonburies, with camping starting right behind them, so then it was fine. However, this time, the capacity of the field was extended and the beginning of the camping area was moved back, leaving these benches in the viewing area, with viewing space behind them. It seems a shame to have extended the space where people can watch The Pyramid stage, only for people to stand on the benches which used to lie at the edge of this space, so that no-one in the extended space can see anything anyway.

The best solution will be to move the benches back to the tent boundary again next year, then standing on benches will go back to being just in front of tents, rather than in front of people that the festival had hoped to give a view of the stage to.

[frostypaw]

Well I maintain that the phrase that pays in this instance is first come first served.

If you sit on the benches then all ya staring at are the backs of standing people.

Is anyone seriously suggesting that if we had left the benches vacant noone else would have grabbed the opportunity for a better view?

I agree with the Glasto be tolerant spirit but there is a time & a place.

[IbizaPrincess]

This happened to me at the stones, packed girls as everybody knows, we were stood behind a stonebench with some people in their 50s+ is say, soon as the stones came on they jumped on the benches, talked throughout or shouted I love you Mick. Being 5ft1 my view was already limitedbut these selfishpeople ruined lots of people's views and refused to stand down.

I thought the older generation would have had better manners.

Pure selfish behaviour

[pjadnoo]

Is anyone seriously suggesting that if we had left the benches vacant noone else would have grabbed the opportunity for a better view?.

Edited July 14, 2013 by pjadnoo

[drewsstrat]

I see, it's fair game to stand up and block people's view as you can't tolerate people standing in front of you whilst you sit at back and watch?

[russycarps]

I recall standing on one of those benches to watch Jay Z.

People behind me came up to shake my hand at the end and thank me profusely, as I had prevented them from seeing one of the worst ever pyramid headline sets

[eFestivals]

This happened to me at the stones, packed girls as everybody knows, we were stood behind a stonebench with some people in their 50s+ is say, soon as the stones came on they jumped on the benches, talked throughout or shouted I love you Mick. Being 5ft1 my view was already limitedbut these selfishpeople ruined lots of people's views and refused to stand down.

I thought the older generation would have had better manners.

Pure selfish behaviour

For next time: a nudge of the required strength always works.

If they don't get 'polite' then other means become an acceptable option.

[Ponyegg]

I agree with the Glasto be tolerant spirit but there is a time & a place.

[Phil-itfc]

Two Glastos in a row we have been pitched at the edge of the Pyramid field next to one of those wooden benches.

Two Glastos in a row we have got up on the benches to get a better view...we also had small children in our group so it was great for them.

Two Glastos in a row people behind have asked us to get down coz they can't see.

We didn't on the basis that it's Glasto FFS. Half the people in the field didn't have a good view. Move to another location. If we weren't standing on the benches someone else would be. If ya don't like crowds then bog off.

We assumed the whingers were newby towny types whose idea of a trip to the country is an afternoon in Regents Park or the like.

Whinge over.

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

Is this a wind up?!

Edited July 15, 2013 by DAVA

[imcle5]

Maybe everyone should just bring one of these instead of chairs to the stages then lol

Edited July 15, 2013 by imcle5