After months of anticipation and preparation, the Great GoogaMooga is officially underway! And already, Twitter is overflowing with people complaining about epic beers lines, and a broken scanner system. As one colleague mentioned, standing on line is what New Yorkers DO. But there may be an even darker crisis afoot: "Really @GoogaMooga a food festival with no toilet paper? And it's only noon..." tweeted Annie O'Neil.
Googamooga is a bust so far. turns out people want beer. & they want it first. their weird card instead of cash system doesnt work. Shocker
— Brian Stitt (@brianstitt) May 19, 2012
#googamooga waiting forty five minutes to buy a card to buy beer but the people can't work the system. #googafail
— Shane Bunting (@ShanesFeet) May 19, 2012
Beer/wine situation at #googamooga one of the most impressively poorly thought out experiences ever. Everyone in lines, nobody drinking.
— Leon (@leonstj) May 19, 2012
@GoogaMooga big time oops on beer and wine tent system...if you aren't here, don't come...complete clusterf #googamooga
— Graham (@grahamgdogg) May 19, 2012
Beer and wine fail. High tech systems are down and the big beautiful tents are empty. patrons are thirsty! #googamooga
— allyson mabry (@allysahn) May 19, 2012
@GoogaMooga no beer, no beer tix bc no internet, bring cash...don't accept cash #fail
— brent buntin (@brentbuntin) May 19, 2012
@googamooga line for beer tent.#eventfail twitter.com/seantracy24/st…
— Sean Tracy (@seantracy24) May 19, 2012
To really get an idea of the frustration many attendees are feeling right now, just look at the tweets from Pip below, who has been documenting his seemingly miserable GoogaMooga experience for several hours:
But hey, at least you'll have plenty of sober time to go check out Hamaggedon:
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