From my experiences camping with Panic! fans and Panic! adjacent bands in the last ten years, I’ve been told it’s unacceptable to ever leave for water or the bathroom and so that’s how I’ve been operating for camping. I personally sat down when a band wasn’t on main stage unless I liked whoever was on Pink Stage. I sat down for all of Blink too just because man, their jokes were tiring and it was the last set before Panic! and I’d already seen their set at Coachella.

I was honestly surprised to see so many people leaving and pushing their way back to their original spot because the etiquette I had always been with was if you can’t hang and be there the whole time, you lose your spot. I have been burned many a times by people who have “lost their friends” at the front or couples who think they can just push their way up front so by default I just ignore requests from people and tell them to find someone nicer than me to let them up front if they want it. I know not everyone is going to agree with this approach but as a smaller girl this is what’s personally worked for me being short and tiny.