ggrrrr I need a boyfriend by next xmas
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know1 wrote:Why didn't you just bring a friend? That's pretty common at our party. Heck, this year one girl even brought her mother. Another brought her sister.
well as I mentioned above, I don't have many friends who live here, and they didn't want to come. My mum HATES office parties, she won't even go to my dad's with him.0 -
TrixieCat wrote:
Listen...it was an office party where spouses and sig others were attending.
If you had spoken to the people you work with, you would have found you were one of the only single people attending.
oh I knew in advance that everyone's spouses were going, I just didn't think it would be a problem. Are you saying I shouldn't have gone because I am single?0 -
I think you need a boyfriend by this new years, too.I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle0 -
Office parties are great!! It seems like it was held in a nice hotel. Free food, beer and wine were served. Too bad you couldn't enjoy it..'I want to hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I'm very, very frightening
and I'll overdo it'0 -
tish wrote:I think you need a boyfriend by this new years, too.
I'm not doing anything for new years. I'm tired of the pressure that you HAVE to do something on new years. well you know what? I have 3 friends that live in this state and they all have independent plans, so I'm just gonna say fuck convention and I'm gonna go to the movies or something.0 -
Shoot. That's grim, but not as bad as picking up a man to get through. Good on you.I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle0 -
The Champ wrote:Office parties are great!! It seems like it was held in a nice hotel. Free food, beer and wine were served. Too bad you couldn't enjoy it..
I usually like office parties! that's the problem!
the beer, wine, and food were all very nice, but I don't I'm sorry, I don't enjoy standing in a humungous ballroom full of people all by myself once the dinner is over.0 -
GreenTeaDisease wrote:I usually like office parties! that's the problem!
the beer, wine, and food were all very nice, but I don't I'm sorry, I don't enjoy standing in a humungous ballroom full of people all by myself once the dinner is over.
It can be difficult if you're not particularly friendly with any of your coworkers..'I want to hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I'm very, very frightening
and I'll overdo it'0 -
GreenTeaDisease wrote:I'm not doing anything for new years. I'm tired of the pressure that you HAVE to do something on new years. well you know what? I have 3 friends that live in this state and they all have independent plans, so I'm just gonna say fuck convention and I'm gonna go to the movies or something.
What kinda movie? I'll shout you a ticket.'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'
- the great Sir Leo Harrison0 -
The Champ wrote:It can be difficult if you're not particularly friendly with any of your coworkers..
I'm friendly with them, they're not very friendly with me.0 -
are you sure you really want to spend time with that awful kind of people?GreenTeaDisease wrote:ok sorry for this big rant, but worst. office party. ever. Why does everything have to be so dominated by couples? So I work in a little branch office across the river from our big corporate headquarters. Tonight was the big corporate party in a huge fancy hotel with tons of people, but since I'm in this little office I only knew the 12 or so people from my office and their partners. I am the only person in my office who is single. So first of all, I have to add a chair to the table, so everyone is all squished in eating their dinner and complaining about it. It's like hello, I know I am an odd-numbered person, I cannot help it. I'll just eat my food standing in the ladies room if you prefer. So then after dinner, I get up to actually go to the ladies room. I come back and everyone is gone. I can't find ANYONE from my office. By this point they have started the dancing on the other end of the ballroom. I take a walk over there because at this point I don't know whatelse to do besides look around at the architecture (which I usually take time to do when I am in a place like that) and I see that everyone from my office is dancing. But even though it is fast dance music, they aren't dancing together, they're dancing only with their partners. I wasn't sure what to do with myself- I would have sat there and gotten drunk but they were only serving beer and wine, neither of which I can drink a lot of. So I just kinda hung out for about an hour, kinda walking around looking at stuff, wondering if any if anyone is going to stop dancing so I'll have people to talk to, but they didn't, so I just left.
the real kicker- I spent $50 on cab rides over there and back (I couldn't take the T because I got all dressed up and wore dress shoes and stuff). It was so boring! I can't believe I spent all that money on it. I'm really glad I didn't buy a new dress or anything.
I'm never going to one of those things alone again. and I am a big proponent of going anywhere alone. I've never had this problem at any of the other office parties I've ever gone to.
sorry, I know this is just like a big rant but I just got home and I really pissed and no one is up to complain to...www.amnesty.org
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i'll go with you to the next party.
Esther's here and she's sick?
hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks0 -
oh I have been there, to the Office Xmas party single.
It sucked.
One time I went with a couple and hot-boxed his car in the parking lot, and then went back for the rest of the evening. That made it more fun, but that was a while ago. I have made excuses and skipped out a couple of them when I was single.1998 ~ Barrie
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xavier mcdaniel wrote:nothing beats going to friends weddings single when anyone you ask to go with is unable to make it..
but weddings aren't really the best first dates, either. tends to be a teency bit awkward/intimidating.0 -
roar wrote:but weddings aren't really the best first dates, either. tends to be a teency bit awkward/intimidating.
true, in my instances i asked a number of women i was friends with and they just couldn't make it those days, so i wound up going solo.Reading 2004
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"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."0 -
sponger wrote:Just remember, half of the people at that party are probably in relationships or married simply because they are afraid of being in a situation like yours. What's worse is that some of them even go on to have children. Eventually, when they realize they were never really in love to begin with, they go through a messy divorce which normally traumatizes their children and perpetuates a cycle of useless, destructive relationships for generations to come.
Give yourself a pat on the back for knowing better.
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JOEJOEJOE wrote:That was quite the journey down the slippery slope, Debbie Downer!
Statistically, the slope is rather adhesive.0
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