What's A Party to You?

When you're a kid, you go to birthday parties. You get freebie candies and balloons from your nursery classmates, and a matching clown for entertainment. Foods were spaghetti in sweet meat sauces, hot dogs, burgers with little flags, fries and ice cream. You probably wear a spiderman, superman or snowhite costume , or those pink girl dresses loaded with pink and white lace with matching pink socks.

Then you get a little bit older, and parties were synonymous to pizzas and pitchers of coke. Entertainment was trip to malls and freebie movies treated by that gawky, lanky celebrant with pimples that covered his/her entire face. You wear a cheap overused shirt and the latest jeans and have a party.

Then a bit older you have parties that served kegs of beer and vodka. You still get a bit of the pizzas, but most of them are replaced by coke flavored brownies and spiked punches. Entertainment was the nearest down and drunk guy or girl dancing on the bar table or cushioned sofa, threatening to take his pants/her tank top off while singing to the tune of the latest angst ridden song while the rest of the audience tries to prod him on.

Then one by one, you arrange parties that include pastas and steaks and pizzas, and still a bit more coke and vodka, but end the evening drinking coffee or tea. Entertainment becomes the talk that you get from recollections of that wasted guy/girl who was dancing on top of the bar table a few years back. Everyone seems to be wearing corporate suits and office dresses, and complain about how much inflation is killing the spending power of one's pay check.

And then all of us get to that time in our lives when most of the parties you go to become a standard setup of long white veils, black ties and bouquet parties. Every girl seem to be in make up while the guys are in their black tie suits. They serve you fancy international dishes and champagne and red and white wine. What's really entertaining is when YOUR wedding date's going to be.

Its amazing how parties morph as you get older. I'd love to tell you the later years, but I've never experienced them yet. Im not THAT old. :)