People you wish wouldn't come????

[LadyStitch]

Every year at TRF we have to go to shows with certain people.  It was a tradition but  half of them aren't going this year.  The plan is to just grab those of us that are faire nuts and see how many shows and shops we can visit in one day and when we get hungry we will eat, if you dont' like where we stop. This is where we will be for 30 minutes go find your own stuff.  If you don't like what we are doing go find it yourself.  I love going to faire with my DH because we are both faire nuts, but going with this one couple of ours...::shutters::  One of the worst TRF days I have ever had, and this includes the weekend all it was freezing rain and ice.

[Rowan MacD]

     
   The few times we have brought family, we always had to leave early, which we hate doing.   

I'm with you there, Rowen. When I attend faire, I'm there from before the gate opens 'til they kick me out after the pub sing. Every time I've gone with people, they either don't want to "start so early" or they say they've had enough and want to leave before it's over.

So, without really making a conscious decision about it, I've started going by myself and making my own choices about where to go, what to see, etc. I'm happy to meet up with people there, I just don't make plans to go around together. For me, it works much better and I enjoy my time at faire a lot more.

  I have been independent for too long I guess.  I truly dislike waiting on someone else's whim on whether we go, stay or what we will do.   So....I don't!  Doesn't make me any less social, and makes me a whole lot happier.

[Lady Rebecca]

I like going by myself, too. It seems like whenever I go with friends, they always want to leave by the end of the day. Luckily, I am usually the driver, so if I don't want to leave yet, I won't.

I think I really learned my lesson when I went to Scarby - granted, it was terrible weather, and we had a 4 hr drive home ahead of us, but my friends were tired of being there after less than 5 hours. So I never really got a chance to experience the whole faire.

So hopefully, taking some of my friends to the Lady of the Lakes faire won't be a mistake...

[Anna Iram]

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[Dinobabe]

Too bad I missed it!

[Butch]

My son's girlfriend!  She agrees to come, and then has so little fun that she is ready to leave almost immediately.
My wife doesn't enjoy it as much as me, so she only accompanies me a couple of times.  That is just fine!  She doesn't mind me going, and I have fun with whomever I'm with!  Also, I am able to scout out the shows I think she'll like, so that we can go to them when she does come!
Now, my son's gf is different.  We brought her to the Feaste of Fooles this year.  Although we told her it started at 1:00, when the day came, she stated she thought she was gonna be picked up at 1:00 (the fair site is like 45 min away!).  We worked it out, and my son and she got there about 12:45.  Cool.  Then, when it was over at 3:30, she NEEDED to leave!  She had to work at 5:00!  That's why we told her about it 3 weeks in advance!  I personally confirmed she was coming 3 weeks in advance, and reminded her to request the day off from work.
Oh well!  Gotta love the kids!

[Welsh Wench]

Life is too short to be with people whose company you don't enjoy.

[Merlin the Elder]

I'm so glad my Nimue loves faire as much as I...maybe more.

[Kate]

Life is too short to be with people whose company you don't enjoy.

Agreed!  There are people AT faire I tend to avoid because they bring me down and make me want to leave.

I'm lucky to have such an amazing group of Fairemily Friends and such a fantastic cast at my home faire that I never feel like I'm there alone, even if I show up solo!

[Yrose]

My mundane friends that you know will never become rennies. I love em and love spending time with them else where. But at fair I feel stuck and can't do what I want.

[LadyStitch]

I'm just glad that this year at TRF we dont' have any newbies except one person who is just a rennie from a different faire.  No worries about dragging her around.  Besides if she doesnt' want to go, then we will just wander off and find more mead for ourselves.  

I am determined to see more shows, more people, and less of shops than I have in the past.

[BLAKDUKE]

My lady and I go for ourselves.  We have NO ONE  riding with us.  We always tell any potential kling-ons that we will meet them there and if they show fine if they don't that's o.k. to.   We ourselves come and go as we please simply to avoid all of the problems detailed herein.   

[Nighthawk]

My sister in law... My brother and my nephews and my brother are great, but my sister in law is a born again Christian, and is very (VERY!!) closed minded. I portray a Scottish Highlander persona, and all she does all day is make snide comments about men in skirts and cross dressers. The fact that the kilt is not and never has been a woman's garment is not at all relevant to her prejudice. Her son dresses up like a pirate- Uncle Nighthawk has helped him put together his garb- and that is bad enough, but me in a kilt? Wow... I'm hellbound for sure!! And then there's the fact that most Rennies seem to be pagan... Gives her even more to nag about than just all the cross dressing kilt wearers!

[DonaCatalina]

-snort-
cross dressing kilt wearers!
I honestly thought that Christian Right thing about kilts being gay was a sarcastic hoax.