Face it, you end up doing something on New Year’s Eve. Some options are better than others. Here’s your not-at-all-official-made-up-on-the-fly ranking of New Year’s Eve activities. From best to worst.
1. House Party/Dinner Party – You’re with friends. You have access to tons of free food. You have access to free booze or brought your own booze. You’ll crash there or take a taxi to a nearby hotel.
2. Fancy dinner out with Friends – You’re with friends (hopefully you have friends). You’ll eat good food. You’ll drink good booze. Sure it’ll be a little overpriced compared to a regular night out but you don’t have to clean up or prepare a dish. Oh. And take a taxi, will ya?
3. Fancy dinner out with your significant other – Ideally at a place that’s not forcing you into a lame pre-fix menu. Enjoy an app, entree and dessert. Get a little sauced and make out on the cab ride home. You’re not even required to stay ’til midnight.
4. Dinner home with your spouse/family – Quiet evening home with wine, candlelight. Maybe a movie. Maybe a game with the kiddos. Enjoy your family for once.
5. Bar Night – Tons of beer specials (domestic only!). You’ll pay a cover because a band will be playing. It will be irrationally warm. The “free apps” will be gone no matter when you arrive. You’ll order food that will come ridiculously late. They’ll be no where to sit and you’ll have a hard time hearing half the people you are with.
6. Drinking by yourself – It will be just like the night before, and the night before that.
7. Club Night – Get dolled up. Order tickets two god-damn months in advance. Go see DJ Untz spinning the latest euro house music on his laptop. Drinks (well drinks!) will be free until 11pm but it will be so crowded you’ll only reach the bar once. You will leave sober or irrationally drunk. It will take you 45 god-damn minutes to grab a taxi, train or uber at the end of the night. You will have a hangover the next day regardless of how much you drink.
8. Watch NYE TV programming that’s not New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. – Try it. [shutters]
9. Sleep
10. Attending the ball drop. – Enjoy a sober, bathroom-less night in the freezing cold with strangers.
Agree? Disagree? Are any of these your plans this NYE? Chat about it in the comments.
