OC Meet Season Opener

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@Mark355

Sequence of events:

• Roll out of Stuyvesant.
• KBB can’t reach the ticket at the toll booth. I blow the horn.
• Follow KBB 80 miles on Thruway. We hit 70 mph three times.
• I lose track of everybody at the exit 17 tolls. Took the first exit I saw on 84W for Montgomery.
• Wrong exit. Lost.
• Spot a pack of M coupes. Follow them.
• Traffic at a dead stop. Not even in the park yet.
• Riding the clutch. 30 minutes passes.
• Text CFD saying I’m stuck in a huge entrance line. He says wait until you see the hill.
• WRRRRIIIIZZZZZZZZZZZZ (engine fans)
• Oh fuck there’s the hill.
• Riding the clutch.
• RX8 behind me. Girl passenger tongues her dog.
• 15 minutes of texting consisting of “gate is closed!” and “gate is open!”
• Riding the clutch.
• Everyone in front of me starts to turn around. I follow.
• Cars EVERYWHERE redlining through the park looking for parking. Chaos.
• Talk to kids from Brooklyn who were turned away at gate.
• Meet another group who says the overflow are meeting at Newburgh Mall.
• CFD calls and says him and KBB are in and cars are still getting through.
• 15 minutes later, reach the gate.
• Organizer says event is at capacity and I need to leave. Park illegally and I’ll be ticketed.
• Parked illegally. Walked into event without paying.
• Worried about my car.
• KBB eats a hamburger.
• PT Cruiser bounces off the rev limiter near the food vendors.
• Really fucking worried about my car.
• Left early like an asshole and drove two hours home.

this sounds like about my experience at staggered last year, which is next sunday, but staggered is worth it.