How long have you ever stayed at a party?

I quite like the quote by Oscar Wilde : hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties!!!! What was he trying to say???? :unsure: Does anyone have cocktail parties nowadays apart from the 'elite' and I think that might be going out of fashion. Is it not champers nowadays ? Haven't stayed long at parties, had one myself in earlier years and I think it's best summed up music, mayhem, mess 🤣
 

When I worked in the lab, the department head always had a holiday party at his home just before Christmas. I hardly every stayed late because it was a long drive home from there; also why I stuck to drinking club soda.
 
Gary O' said:
I always liked it when it was 'someone else's house'
Mine.....not so much
Especially when days turned to weeks
I'd get home from work and there they'd be
'Don't you have a home?!'
'Yes, it's yours'
Lost a few acquaintances that way
No real loss...turns out
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We never had those problems in our group. This was back in the early to mid 60s. We were pretty much young military and employed spouses so we all had places to be and things to do. Never any drugs, just alcohol. We also had a deal that we would all help return the space to its pre-party state, which we did -- slowly and with lots of aspirin and alka-seltzer and the occasional bloody Mary, but we always did it before we left. Returning our heads and stomachs to their pre-party state sometimes took much longer.
 

Some all nighters the end of my Sr year of HS and some in college. Not many because I've always caught some sort of bug when sleep deprived due to autoimmune issues.
 
How long have you ever stayed at a party?

OK, there was this one party...sorta
Houston
Started out at The Hello Bar
Commenced bar hoping
Ended up at The Cellar Club off the square
Got thrown out
Cops took my buddy away
I hollered out 'Where ya goin' with Roger Dodger?'
'You wanna go with him?'
…...'Bye Roger'

Can't remember getting home....it was a long walk
Remember struggling getting the key in the door
Staggering to the couch
Woke with sticky beard
Ran a tub of water
Woke with dried prune skin....and cold
Head.....throbbing
Everything too bright
Nursed myself back to a resemblance of health with a bloody mary…..marys…..bloody marys

Bailed Roger out

Went to Tonys on Main st
Burgers and beer

Weekends were long back then
 
Until the next day.
A woman at the party kept me "prisoner" & wouldn't let me leave when I wanted to.
I didn't want to argue with her, so.....
 
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