One night, two birthday parties. Which one to go to?
On one hand there is the good friend I have known for 12 years who will be in town for her birthday, in which she and our cohorts will be drunk bowling and subsequently singing drunk karaoke. I can most likely catch a ride from another friend, and the night will end at a reasonable hour.
On the other hand, there is the pretty other friend I’ve known for much less time, who flirts with me (ok, and everyone else) when she’s drunk and has cute and interesting friends who dress nicely, and she has contacts in my industry I really should be talking to. In this event I will attend alone, and there will probably be karaoke. I’ll have to drive myself and the night will end at an unreasonably late hour.
In either case I bet I’m going to end up singing a duet for “A Whole New World” from Disney’s Aladdin. That’s not a sex joke. Even though it should be.
If sitcoms have taught me anything, it’s that I should go to the one. The other sounds tempting, but the one is what I’m planning on attending. Just because I’ve known her longer, and yes, I have the prospect of being drunker as my chances of rounding up a designated driver are much higher in this case.
But what do you make of the situation? What would happen if I went to the other?
I have no advice. I was hoping from the title that both parties would be at the same establishment, and you’d switch between the two by well-timed bathroom breaks.
Truth told, the other just sounds like nothing but trouble to me. Can you make an appearance at the other and leave to celebrate “a birthday with a dear friend of the family”? Get in there, have a drink or two, get some business contacts and hot step it out of there before the liquor and the girls and the business contacts create a perfect storm?
is there no possible way to hit up both? because that obviously would be the best answer.
I’d go to the one‘s birthday FOR SURE
I hold onto my old friends as much as I possibly can because… hell, let’s face it. I travel a lot. THere are very few people I can count on to be there ALL the time, and the ones that I can are always – hands down- the ones who deserve my time. I would go to the One.
you should go to one’s. You can always hang out with the other chick.
@all: I actually did end up going to both. Perhaps that’s a story for another time but in all honesty it went kind of exactly how one might expect.
@Eric: Truly, you are learned in the ways of the sitcom. :)