Here is a true thing that happened:

So years ago - I want to say either New Year's Eve 1998 or 2000 - when we were still young and beautiful, Truss and I and Zoner (who all lived together at the time) and our friend Ford, and possibly one or two other people I can't remember now, had a New Year's Eve get-together at Shamrock House in Waltham. We weren't planning on a hugely gala evening anyway, but even by our utterly unambitious standards, it was a bit shambolic. Having each assumed nobody else would and bought a twelve-pack of Cider Jack, we found ourselves with little else but same in the house...

... so we all drank two apiece and fell asleep in the living room, watching the Croc Hunter marathon on Animal Planet. If Ford's husband hadn't phoned from his parents' place in Oregon at 11:45ish, we'd have slept right through midnight.

For years thereafter, we would joke about the year we had an old people's New Year's party.

--G.
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