Originally Posted by
Doppelgänger
I don't think I'll be going to WBs anytime soon. It's not the amount that bothers me, it's the principal. I don't feel the need to pay for a "meet". A show is one thing because the venue space is usually rented and there are other costs for a "show". But the point of a meet is to be able to show up, park and hang out. The point where a tax is enforced is where the ability to freely meet ends. Just as everyone with forethought and common sense, I get irritated with the retards, morons, shitheads, kids, dipshits, and fucksticks that ruin meets with burnouts, racing, littering, fights, blasting radios and everything else that disrupts the ebb and flow of just hanging out. It would be nice to simply eject those who cause the disturbance...and for people to have balls to back up such decisions. But since most "meets" are on property in which the owner is not present or enforcing this, no one can truely enforce such policies. I'd be all about a meet where this was the norm, but I just don't see that happening anywhere because you will always get the disrespecful dipshits who know they can't be forced to follow simple guidelines. I also don't care for the "vendor" shit that is popping up at such meets (C&O being one). I'm going to a meet to hang out, I'm not going to a convention. I can't really put my finger on it, but it urks me to sell/have vendor space at what is supposed to just be a meet. For example, I know in the park up the street from me, a bunch of people meet every morning to train/run/workout....wouldn't it be funny if I show up peddling wears to them when they are just there to share a time of freely doing what their common interest consists of? These people go to organized events I'm sure, and at those events, there are vendors selling products that are beneficial to them...at organized events. WBs surely did not start off as an event, it started as a meet and should stay a meet.
But just as the cycle marches on, the WBs thing will die off and people will start congregating somewhere else. There is no stopping that cycle. I feel the main reason The V went on so long is becuase it was a tradition (of sorts) among many other groups for decades. Other groups who were much more respectful of the V and its property.
