MMVA08: Wristband Overnighter (Vol 1)

June 9th, 2008

[Ed. Note: Ellie and her gaggle of friends were total troopers, pulling an overnighter to score MMVA wristbands! She blogged the experience for us ... and tomorrow, we'll have another saga of line-up madness!]

7:27pm
Well here we are in line! The sun is setting and the games are beginning. We are comfortably seated in our brand new pink lawn chairs.. courtesy of WalMart, and we just met the cute security guard. As usual, the 14-year-old girls are giggly and swooning over him, we however are jokingly hitting on him. He loves it. We can’t go anywhere without causing a scene. So far we have been asked 62 billion times what we are waiting in line for – we need to come up with some crazy story that makes people think we are doing something far more insane.

9:10pm
Dinnnaaaa timmmee!! We’ve trotted across the street to Pizza Pizza and are now awaiting our food. More friends have joined us and we have a total of 6 lovely ladies keeping the party alive on John Street. Food and Redbull will revive our spirits! On another note, Hailey has now informed us that she straightens her hair. She says if she doesn’t, it looks “beachy” … but “beachy crazy” not “beachy cute.”

9:48pm
Full.. so full. Streets are getting busy, and Ellie is getting tired. And Hillary just tried her first ever Rolo. WTF.. was she raised in a cave?

11:07pm
We have seen the future of transportation! And it’s called an Eco-Taxi! Bike powered buggies zipping around the city, not only good for the environment, but far more fun than one would ever expect. Plus some of the drivers – er, peddlers, are cute! So if you’ve ever wanted to feel like a Flintstone, hop aboard! The taxi.. not the driver ;)

11:36pm
Hillary has attempted to change her shirt under a blanket while sitting in her chair since all the washrooms close by are conveniently “out of order”. Outcome = successful.

11:48pm
We played a game from Sex and the City where you count out of the next 100 guys who walk by how many of them you would hypothetically make out with, based on looks alone. My total was 2. Either my standards are way to high, or Toronto is ugly tonight.

12:17am
There are now 10 lovely ladies gathered around chairs and blankets and of course we are causing trouble yelling at the hot mess club goers stumbling down the streets. We talk to drunken idiots as though they are actually making sense, then confuse them into feeling complete morons. PS: some random guy (max height 5’3) just chirped us for waiting, so Cailey yelled back at him “good thing you’re not going, you’d barely see the stage!”

2:12am
This hike to Timmys to pee is getting annoying. We’ve seen 5 trampy girls fall so far… I hope I don’t look that – how do you say..el desparado – when I go out.

2:32am
We just brought back the childhood game of airplane. You know, one person lays on their back and puts their legs up while the other person balances on their feet. We got quite an audience … but it went well haha.

3:01am
Quotes of the Night:
“What are you doin’ in line? You’re hot, and you have a hot dog!”
“I just saw someone get hit by a streetcar!! Wait, where’s our friend?”

4:08am
Rain Scare. Haha we ran the sleeping bags to the car, pulled out the umbrellas and rain proofed our “camp site”. Guess we jumped the gun a little, it was only a few drops. Still so warm out!

5:02am
The sun is slowlllyy surfacing again. The city was quiet for a bit but it’s starting to liven up again. Everyone is making a final attempt to either stay awake with a coffee or catch an hour or so of sleep. Ipods are on and our chatter is getting less and less.

5:30am
Time to freshen up and return to looking like humans. Nothing a few baby wipes, some bronzer and a hair brush can’t fix. Good advice to those thinking of facing a crowd after a night awake: give up on trying to cover the dark circles around your eyes, just throw on some big sunglasses!

5:41am
Ahh chaos! Some rude people, who clearly don’t understand how lines work, tried to cut in front of us and the 25 people ahead of us. Well, shit has hit the fan and the line and security has gotten into a screaming match with them. Finally after 10 minutes they’ve given up and moved. Order had returned, but I’m sure the girls feel like complete idiots.

8:20am
Got our wristbands! Not sure if we’re more excited for the show, or to go home and sleep! Either way, we are dunzo! Sadly the line wraps around the entire building and these people will be standing all day in the hot sun in hopes of getting a wristband. I hate to say this.. but suckaaasss!!!

Posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pm by Matt and is filed under MMVA2008.