New Years Eve: No Thanks

[urbpan]

i have three nice invitations to parties for New Years Eve.  I try not to go anywhere that night: for many people it is the only night of the year that they drink to excess.  Then they drive around the city.  One year a guy just plowed into a crowd of people on the sidewalk.  I'd rather go out some other night then celebrate the arbitrary flipping of a calendar page.

The weather forecast for Boston for Wednesday night is for up to seven inches of snow, high winds, and temps (not wind chills) near the single digit mark.  I just told Alexis that to go out on a night like that is to spit in the face of the inventors of shelter itself.

Comments

Dedly srsnss!

[jilder.livejournal.com]

Guess you're not coming to mine, then?

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go into the city for the same reasons on that night. It's too messy. We're having people over at our house and maybe going out in the village where all the pubs are literally a few steps away, so we can go back home easily if there is any trouble or if it just plain sucks in the pubs.

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! And a good percentage of those drunk drivers are amateurs.
Give me a comfy night with the fireplace, thanks.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

but... but...

The best way to ring in the new year is /obviously/ by inciting an adrenaline rush by risking death & dismemberment.