8/3/05
My roommate invited dozens of friends to a party. The party is going well; people are eating, drinking, enjoying the company and enjoying our home. The party is inside, outside on the lawn and in the pool. People are everywhere and I am there with them.
My roommate has other obligations and must leave the party early. The guests stay and continue enjoying.
Things start changing subtly. First I notice people dropping things. Food gets dropped on the carpet, glasses are dropped on the lawn. Silverware, napkins, food, drinks are dropped but not cleaned up. People drop things but don't acknowledge it and I begin to get bothered.
Someone wants to take a picture by the pool and we all have to drape our towels across our shoulders like togas: calf length on one side, chest length on the other side. The folds on the long side of the towel must be perfect and fall like curtains gathered at evenly spaced intervals. We stand for the picture with our left arm (the one with the short drape) at our side and our right arm extended out to our side, long drape evenly spaced down the arm, with our right hand holding the left shoulder of the next person in the picture. It seemed very important to get the picture just right.
The party continues and people are really getting out of hand. Guests have long overstayed their welcome, the food and drink have run out and I am not happy that I have to deal with these people (who are not MY friends).
I start seeing evidence that they are raiding the refrigerator and the bar. Packages of frozen food are thrown on the lawn and on the floor. Many of the packages have been opened and just discarded as if the guest were looking for something specific and when they realized that this was just a frozen steak or chicken part they were not interested.
The bar was a mess. All of the good liquor was gone. People were mixing anything with everything and making a real mess of it.
I recognized some of the guests but most were unknown to me. These were not my friends! I was very annoyed that my roommate would have a party at our house then leave me with all of these rude people while he went off to do other things (that I assumed were not as messy).
My roommate has other obligations and must leave the party early. The guests stay and continue enjoying.
Things start changing subtly. First I notice people dropping things. Food gets dropped on the carpet, glasses are dropped on the lawn. Silverware, napkins, food, drinks are dropped but not cleaned up. People drop things but don't acknowledge it and I begin to get bothered.
Someone wants to take a picture by the pool and we all have to drape our towels across our shoulders like togas: calf length on one side, chest length on the other side. The folds on the long side of the towel must be perfect and fall like curtains gathered at evenly spaced intervals. We stand for the picture with our left arm (the one with the short drape) at our side and our right arm extended out to our side, long drape evenly spaced down the arm, with our right hand holding the left shoulder of the next person in the picture. It seemed very important to get the picture just right.
The party continues and people are really getting out of hand. Guests have long overstayed their welcome, the food and drink have run out and I am not happy that I have to deal with these people (who are not MY friends).
I start seeing evidence that they are raiding the refrigerator and the bar. Packages of frozen food are thrown on the lawn and on the floor. Many of the packages have been opened and just discarded as if the guest were looking for something specific and when they realized that this was just a frozen steak or chicken part they were not interested.
The bar was a mess. All of the good liquor was gone. People were mixing anything with everything and making a real mess of it.
I recognized some of the guests but most were unknown to me. These were not my friends! I was very annoyed that my roommate would have a party at our house then leave me with all of these rude people while he went off to do other things (that I assumed were not as messy).
posted by GFK at 7:36 AM
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