Burn My Time
~Josh Houghtelin
Freakers Ball & The Beast.
This is a funny little story from last night.
Andy needed three tickets to Freakers Ball so I had another friend order them using my debit card. The only tickets TickerMaster sold were ‘Will Call’ which meant that the purchaser of the tickets had to pick them up at the gate. I figured I’d just roll up, skate for a while, and go to a haunted house after getting them their tickets.
Sometime around 5:30 on Saturday I got a ride up to Freakers Ball and since we were only trying to get the tickets and give them to Andy and his people we were aloud in VIP parking right at the gates. Right when we stepped out of the truck Andy suggested we stay because someone from a radio station was throwing out tickets for $10. We left the truck near the gates, snatched up a couple tickets and went inside.
The first band we saw was Jackyl. I moshed a bit n’ mashed around Andy, Michelle, Slaw, Morgan and a couple other people I can’t recall the names of. I was stupid and didn’t bring a hoodie so after Jackyl left the stage I ran up to a clothing stand and got a jacket. I got hooked up and met all the band members real quick while they signed it for me. It couldn’t have worked out better.
Finding my way back to the group close to the stage was about impossible but texting and being able to push people around helped. We jammed to a couple songs then Andy and another friend threw me on top of the crowd. I broke the shit out of Stubby’s glasses crowd surfing. I ended up being tossed off the front at the stage after surfing back and forth across the crowd a couple times. Back mashing through the crowd I went. Not long after I found them we started another mosh pit. I ended up meeting the ground that time. Darn that slippery grass.
After Buck Cherry, Morgan and I busted out and went to the The Beast. It was time to follow through with the original plan. We had some problems though. I pre-ordered the tickets but only initially bought one. Later Morgan said she’d go so I ordered a second one but instead of getting a ticket for The Beast I got one for The Edge of Hell, The Beast’s sister haunted house. Even though I screwed it up they set it straight quicker then having to stand in line. The Beast is most definitely the largest haunted house I have ever been in. It had slides, mazes, stairs, a lot of actors and enough strobe lights to kill a million epileptics. I got lost more than once and about jumped out of my skin when someone touched me with a running chainsaw.
The whole afternoon was pretty cool. We drove all over, around and through Kansas City ziggin and zaggin across the state line. Everything finally came to an abrupt end around 3:am.
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I made it back home alive.
The result of mixing beer and crowd surfing. Tuesday looks like a good day to get those replaced.
The BEAST!
