Last year was my first year in BRC. While making my way to one of the banks of porta-pottys, I came up to one of many baffling and incredible scenarios I will always remember with a huge grin on my face. I was waiting to use the lou when I noticed a large gathering of people surrounding another porta-pottie nearby. I looked over and this girl motioned for me to come over and just as I was about to ask what was going on, she shushed me and I noticed that everyone was being extremely quiet.
Surveying the scene further I noticed a giant art car with a podium on the front of it and a large mirror ball dangling on a pole over the crowd gathered. Also there was a long red carpet from the art car to the outside of one of the porta-pottys with a beautiful lady dressed a bit like Vanna White standing just outside the door. I could hear people whisper "the winner of Burning Man is in there!" I realized then that whoever was in the porta-potty was going to come out eventually and have this crowd and scenario to deal with. I was grinning and noticed everyone around me was also. I took out my camara. So did everyone else.
The door finally opened and the crowd went wild with applause and cheers. It took me a split second to realize that the person who had stepped out was my campmate and friend Sparkle Pony. I couldn't believe it, I was lauging now with tears streaming down from my eyes. She was one of the few people that I knew there and she handled this scenario better than I would have had I been the one to stumble into this (i.e. heart attack or mild stroke or something). She was presented with a huge trophy, composed of many trophys fused together and told "Congratulations you are the winner of Burning Man!" (which is the equivalent in absurdety to winning Woodstock). She was also handed a megaphone on which she proclaimed, "Thanks to all of you for waiting for me while I was in my Purple rooom."
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