​5 Things I Learned on a Roadie with my Best Friends
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​5 Things I Learned on a Roadie with my Best Friends

Nine hours of open road will either lead to laughs or tears, but if it's a memorable one it will be a mixture of both.

Mimi Dougherty
Sep 25, 2016
Xavier University
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​5 Things I Learned on a Roadie with my Best Friends


  1. You need a bomb playlist:
    1. If you do not have a play list that you have been working on for at least a week before you leave are you really going on a road trip?
  2. Snacks are King
    1. Yeah sure you can always stop at a rest stop or a gas station and get a snack. But let’s be real we all know that we need more than just one snack, you need at least 10 per person. Snacks can be entertaining too, i.e. throwing them at each other and trying to catch them in your mouth.
  3. Stops: to take them or not to.
    1. I live by the rule of only stop if you need gas or you are about to pee your pants. And thank god so are my friends. Nothing grinds my gears more when we are in the car and stopping every hour. Or when there is that one person in your group who says at the time they do not need to pee but 15 minutes later they do, but sucks to be them since the next rest stop is not usually for 45 miles.
  4. Everyone has a job.
    1. Driver: only job is making sure we do not DIE
    2. Shotgun seat:
      • DJ, if you fall asleep and let the tunes go you might get left behind at the next rest stop.
      • Navigator, super duper important you do not want to be traveling in the wrong direction for 2 hours. And if that happens you will be the most hated person in the car.
    3. Backseat:
      • i.One is usually the snack provider and drink distributor (so pretty much mom) and since we had two people in the back seat they also provided entertainment. Which includes and is not limited to, backseat driving, punching each other, making song requests, throwing food, denying food and drink to the driver, dancing, snap chatting incessantly, and last but not least having the ability to sleep and not feel that bad.
  5. Test of Friendship
    1. If you can survive 9 hours in the car with your best friend’s, you can pretty much survive anything. People in the car can be really annoying and it can ruin a friendship. But thankfully I have best friends that are equally annoying when we are not in the car so not much has changed and for that I am thankful. Our friendship after this trip will more than likely be stronger. We will have created memories that will last us a life time. And those memories will be shared with our children when we are encouraging them to do stuff like this. This road trip has defiantly been worth the 9 hours of driving.
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