Glastonbury: the best festival in the world, where the weather is a lottery and the music never ends. It’s also been an absolute pain in the arse to get to overnight (Tuesday 21-Wednesday 22), as thousands of people went early to get their tents pitched on the site at Worthy Farm in Somerset – only to be met with a bottleneck at the site’s entrances, which rainy weather has turned into congestion points.
How bad is #glastonburytraffic? Well, its taken 11.5 hours to travel 7 minutes…. pic.twitter.com/qAGVHvWFcR
— Clare (@c1areyh) June 22, 2016
But taking 11.5 hours to travel three miles isn’t all bad: it allows the general population to show off their many and considerable merits: either making the best of a bad situation, or wallowing, abject, in their glorious self-pity. Take a look, and enjoy our playlist below while you sit in the queue…
One of the best reactions has been from this group, who got their cricket bats out and had a game of what looks like Kwik cricket.
Sensational – #glastonburytraffic is so bad people are playing cricket in the roads… #Glasto2016 (pic: @SabMalPet) pic.twitter.com/zDn45Jdj6M
— Ben McGrail (@Ben_McGrail) June 22, 2016
James, by contrast, gave into the trauma of the experience.
Closing in on TEN straight hours in #glastonburytraffic. Stay strong, blue car parkers. pic.twitter.com/2GBUAJKsTP
— Jamie Shoesmith (@jamesfarrier) June 22, 2016
What if it’s raining? Make your own ‘fun’ with the car manual. Yeah.
https://twitter.com/DE_Cooper/status/745520084853002240
But what if you run out of food? How do you stay positive?
https://twitter.com/thejamessutton/status/745476691514974209
Well, how you stay positive is by accepting the kindness of strangers. We hate to say it – but this is just a little bit heartwarming.
@salvationarmyuk Heres to the guy handing out food to people stuck in the jam over night #hero #glastonburytraffic pic.twitter.com/MDodGDP9Pw
— Jez (@JezboLenmo) June 22, 2016
Optimism is key to a long wait
At this rate we might just catch Coldplay on Sunday #glastonburytraffic
— Bobby. (@BobbyWisehall) June 22, 2016
See the positives in the little things
Never been on a roundabout long enough to take a nap before #glastonburytraffic
— Mike Ross (@developer_mike) June 22, 2016
If you’re like Bernard Black, you can focus on the negatives instead, for the lols.
I got from Vegas to UK yesterday quicker than I got from Essex to Glastonbury today. #glastonburytraffic
— Joanna Petrucci (@joannapetrucci) June 22, 2016
Desperate times: desperate measures
#glastonburytraffic has made me smoke in my car for the first time, sorry bexy
— M E G ☯️? (@_m3ganrose) June 21, 2016
And actually, there’s nothing like a traffic jam to make you do something spontaneous
Now officially been in this #glastonburytraffic so long that a couple has met&got engaged. There'll be the first marriage &birth before long
— John T (@ananasjihad) June 22, 2016
There is no need for this kind of smugness…
Queues? What queues? We waited about 10 minutes and we are in the car park. #glastonburytraffic
— ☞ Jodie Doubleday ☜ (@jodiedoubleday) June 22, 2016
…because people in the queue have learnt something: the value of patience.
Anyone stuck in #glastonburytraffic want play a Twitter game of naughts and crosses?
We'll go first:
⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️
❌ ⬜️ ⬜️
⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️— Chop'd (@ChopdUK) June 22, 2016
And anyway, it could be worse…
I'd rather be stuck in #glastonburytraffic than be at work. Stop being bitter everyone ?
— Mr Thomas Snrub (@ell_worry) June 22, 2016
…so why not just dance while you wait?
https://twitter.com/Suzijuice14/status/745567016032083968
Or, like the cast of Shitfaced Shakespeare, if you’re not driving there’s always the option of getting plastered instead.
#glastonburytraffic making the most of this situation.. the best way we know how #itsbettershitfaceddontyouthink pic.twitter.com/3M0Rv77icm
— ShitfacedShakespeare (@shitfacedshake) June 22, 2016