After careful consideration about venue and time, we all disembark from our respective domiciles(as it would be rather curious if we disembarked from each other's domicles; being that most of my friends are guys and we live nowhere near a confessional) and out to the designated area. For the most part, the congregation process goes smoothly. Mind you, this is the first vital step in a night which will be wrought with semi-mediated actions; so this is really going to set the tone for the evening. Apparently that tone was set to "That annoying noise you get when you run a clean hand across tightly wrapped saran wrap" because we get half the people there and the other half are lost. Better yet, three different cars manage to get lost within three blocks of each other. These people are most likely pulling up next to each other at stop lights, yet they can't get take the intiative to just end this little automotive pollen dance, and just stop for directions. Their logical(and I do use the term loosely) recourse is to continue doing figure-eights around the same two blocks and use up all their weekend minutes talking to me.

Me? I just can't get drunk fast enough for this night. I can already tell that this is not going to be a night to remember, if I have any sense in my head and an I.D. in my wallet. The thing is, I know that this is just not me. This kind of behavior is not the purgatory of creatively bereft God. This is a personal hell that we all have to go through when we try to organize a get-together with three or more friends. The simplest solution would be just to stop organizing larger gatherings, but I can stand all of my friends enough to have their undivided attention for an entire evening. In that situation there is a far greater chance that some of them may notice that all the attention is not being repaid, and that's more talking with them to cool the tension. Hardly socially effecient.

Perhaps I am being a little hard on my friends. Maybe there is no good way to give directions. It would seem counter-intuitive, being that there is a very real way to give bad directions: