How to enjoy New Year's Eve

Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

I'm going to be watching the ball drop from 1999 and drinking some champagne

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It can be worth it doing it at least once in your life if only to gain the perspective that it's an overrated experience.

Zement

Sick on vacation while my friends at home have a shrooms party ._.

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One of the perks of aging is not caring about shit like this anymore. Tomorrow, I’ll wake up fully rested and able to take advantage of my day off by doing absolutely nothing. It’s more pleasurable when you’re awake to enjoy it.

M137

I never experienced this. NYE is either family, house parties or raves where you mostly bring your own alcohol (and other things).

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Oh, thanks for the reminder! I need to get a Lego set on the way home!

pruwyben

One year I went to New York City for new year's. We quickly figured out that trying to get into Times Square would be miserable, so we found a little bar with some live jazz. One of my favorite NYEs ever.

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Imagine going to crowded places out of your own free will.

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Nobody goes these places anymore, it's too crowded.

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Why April?

Romans started the year in March, this is why the names of September (7), October (8), November (9), and December (10) don't make sense in our calendar.

We went kayaking at noon, getting drunk while barbeque until 6, then passing out by 7. Middle age is awesome!

When I was a kid, we would watch it every year. No one ever told me that we were watching with a 3 hour delay on the West Coast and everyone "celebrating" in the video had gone home three hours earlier. It made New Year's feel like a big ass lie. Put two and two together on my own though when I was about 23.

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There are lots of people at busy locations on NYE. That's why they're busy.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

I've heard that once you're in Times Square, there's no way to get out until after midnight, and no bathrooms, so people wear adult diapers. Like what in the actual fuck? How is watching Ryan Seacrest or whoever the fuck blather into a camera while a ball slowly drops down a rod worth standing in dirty diapers for six hours?

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There's no reason to go to Times Square on a normal day, let alone today.

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The one time I actually went bar hopping on New Year's Eve was horrible. Where we were they'd set up some inflatable obstacle course like ninja warrior but tame. My buddy's wife wanted to do it, but he didn't, so I was like ok I'll race you. They made you take off your shoes when you get in line.

So my feet are always wet with sweat. I have hyperhidrosis. So my socks were wet, standing in the street, and it's 30 degrees or so. After we did the obstacle thing we were walking up the street and I could tell there was something really wrong with my feet. I have circulation issues as well and my feet are always cold if it's not 75 degrees or better.

So we went into a bar and I went into the bathroom and took my shoes and socks off. My feet were totally numb but also somehow in really bad pain? I was getting frostbite. So I ran hot water over my feet in the sink while people pounded on the door and screamed at me.

Other bad things happened that night but that part was the worst. Now I either stay home or go to a friend's.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

It's neat to see for the first time. I was somewhat amazed that people built all of that. But I was ready to leave by the time we got about a block from the square. I don't think we ever actually made it to the center, as I had seen enough. I won't go back.

QuizzaciousOtter

Just do whatever the fuck you please. It's that simple!