Friday 13th Port Dover

[skypilot]

This is the first Friday the 13th since 1998 that I haven't gone to Port Dover. Last year I saw the light on why not to go again: 1 hour wait at Canada Customs (you would think they would figure out that this happens every Friday the 13th) 2 1/2 hours there, wait in traffic 45 minutes to get close to the town. Walk into the town, squeeze down main street packed in like a sardine, buy a t-shirt and a patch. Get a beer and a sausage. Look at the vendors in the park, all selling the same crap they have sold for the past ten years. Look at the HA posing on the sidewalk in front of the park. Have another beer and sausage. Walk back to the bike to head home. Get stopped on the outskirts of Port Dover at the OPP drunk driving checkpoint. No problems there, just another delay. 2 1/2 hours home.
Started asking myself, why am I doing this, its not fun. At best I have only seen three pairs of bare tits on the best day.
So I stayed home this year, and I don't miss it.

 

[Questor]

So why did you do it every year since 1998? To bask in the holy aura of the Hell's Angels? You'd think that you would have figured out it is a waste of time after one year.

 

[skypilot]

So why did you do it every year since 1998? To bask in the holy aura of the Hell's Angels? You'd think that you would have figured out it is a waste of time after one year.

You'd think so. But I just kept hoping it would get better. I guess I am just slow.

 

[Questor]

You'd think so. But I just kept hoping it would get better. I guess I am just slow.

LOL That's one way to look at it. Well, in 10 years, I guess a person's tastes and interests change and mature. I used to have a bike, so I know that one's identity can become closely linked to a motorcycle, or at least to what it symbolizes. So perhaps that link was stronger 10 years ago, skypilot. I don't know how old you are, but when one is younger, perhaps one is more easily entertained by the spectacle of hundreds of bikers coming to a small town and making a statement. In effect, taking over the town. There is something powerful about that, or maybe its empowering. I don't know because I never have been to Port Dover or any other biker gathering. So maybe you have grown to the point of seeing beyond that and now see more of a carnival atmosphere.

 

[Egor]

Despite being from the Port Dover area and having grown up there, I've never been to a Friday the 13th party. Just didn't appeal to me.

Dover has always been a decent little party town. It bears remembering that this Friday the 13th thing started out as a private local party. Apparently it was a decent party in the early years - before it became too popular and comercialized.

 

[C Dick]

I read a newspaper account of the activities. It said that there was all kinds of wild activities, including one woman who went topless! If one topless woman is all they can do from a crowd of 12,000, it does not sound worth it.

 

[STASH]

Skypilot I must agree with you. Except I didn't have the border crossing. If you've been once you've pretty much seen it all. I go every five years or so. Then it is much more interesting. Except all the police hassle getting in and out. That alwys makes me say fuck this next year. Went last year and skipped this one.