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Holiday Parties

Everyone it seems wants to go to one.  Many businesses host them.  But wait.  What is it?  Why is it?

Who the heck knows.  The whole notion of our species wanting to enter a rather confined space  with loud music and varying degrees of cheap (but overpriced) alcohol and sub par nourishment to spend hours is hilarious.  What makes the hilarity exponentially more funny is there are like minded folk jostling to get in on the action aka add their own exhaust to the congested space.

All this in the name of some approaching holiday.  Uh?

Food is piled high on tables in corners with plates that look like paper frisbees and have the same diameter as a hockey puck.  This seemingly to avoid wasting food.  But it creates for some rather frustrating customers who were hoping to load them up.

Now it simply gets piled high instead of wide to allow for more mass per plate.  This leads to major accidents and waste.  So there.  Bad idea.

Then comes the liquids imbibing phase of the project.  Here we have (depending on the size of the host's wallet) a  rather varying range of beverages mostly served by apathetic staff to folks that simply want to get sloshed.  After their fourth gulp they usually are.  So what they do from that point forward adds to above mentioned hilarity.

A random series of artists or grotesquely dressed humans mingling amidst the chaos called the party complete the setup.

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