Free Press Summer Fest

What FPSF Looked Like to the Festival's Vendors

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BOOTH: Koagie Hots Cheesesteaks and Dogs VENDOR: "Gregg," age "old enough to party"

"Gregg" is a guy you might have attended FPSF with if he didn't have to work the event. Clearly someone who has seen the dark side of a festival, he couldn't divulge his real name for legal reasons. Also, he was understatedly hilarious. When asked the craziest thing he had seen at FPSF, Gregg deadpanned "someone's asshole," no other info given or needed.

He said that everyone had been "amazingly nice" throughout the fest, and that he was going to leave his booth to see the Deftones. Gregg pseudo-excitedly told us that "Chino [Deftones singer Moreno] had just come over and had a cheesesteak." His favorite thing about FPSF? The fact that "everyone gets to come down and have mild heatstroke and eat cheesesteaks."

BOOTH: FPSF Merch VENDOR: Erika, age 18

Erika was a giggly and nervous girl who made every question we asked her seem like she was afraid to fail a pop quiz. She said everyone she had met all day had been very nice to her, but not so much to her boothmate Cameron. Asked to explain, she simply said, "Intoxication."

Erika also said that working the merch booth was nice because you could leave at any time if you wanted to, simply because your shift was going to be 14 hours anyway. During the evacuation, she added, the whole park was "super-chill" and people mostly just hid in tents. But our favorite thing about her was the way Erika completely contradicted herself, which made us like her even more: we asked her the craziest thing she had seen, and she said that it was the "outfits," specifically "guys in Speedos."

Then I asked her what advice she would give to a FPSF attendee: "It's really hot, so make sure you dress in cool clothes," she replied. Asked if that included Speedos, she just kind of stared at us and said, "Uh, yeah...I guess it does."

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