TickleMeElbow
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Dude most of the shit you listed is what people do on family trips if they happen to visit those places lol.
Did you not see any families there?
Why are you so boring? (to Tabris)
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Dude most of the shit you listed is what people do on family trips if they happen to visit those places lol.
Did you not see any families there?
shinra-bansho
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Making lists has been omitted from the list.
The things you listed are for the most parts things people do on family vacations. I'm not entirely sure how you concurrently consider them fun, while deriding the boring stories of family trips, when they're basically the same. They're ordinary vacation activities.
For many people, most I wager, enjoyment and fulfillment in life is derived not just from doing things as some sort of checklist, but from doing things with people they love and love being around. Novelty of company or activity is generally not a requirement for fun. I'm not really sure what's mind-blowing about that.
Frozenprince
Banned
Are you serious?
Of course my stories are going to revolve more around my kid wanging his head on something because he wasn't aware of it or how he decided to knee me in the balls the last time I picked him up or how the last episode of House of Cards was tight AF. My stories aren't about going out to the clubz or whatever it is you think all older people do in your late 80's idealization of upper class adult living. It's because I don't DO those things anymore, because I am RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER HUMAN BEINGS LIFE. My life experiences and stories are still just as compelling and out of left field and organic, you just don't see them that way. My life with my kid is an infinite adventure of new experiences, you probably see it as mundane and boring to sit on a couch, stroke your kids hair and watch sesame street for an hour, but to me it's the best thing in the world.
If you can't compromise with your friends and find common ground on things you enjoy doing and find other ways to have fun with them and create new stories to tell well.
That's on you man.
Of course my stories are going to revolve more around my kid wanging his head on something because he wasn't aware of it or how he decided to knee me in the balls the last time I picked him up or how the last episode of House of Cards was tight AF. My stories aren't about going out to the clubz or whatever it is you think all older people do in your late 80's idealization of upper class adult living. It's because I don't DO those things anymore, because I am RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER HUMAN BEINGS LIFE. My life experiences and stories are still just as compelling and out of left field and organic, you just don't see them that way. My life with my kid is an infinite adventure of new experiences, you probably see it as mundane and boring to sit on a couch, stroke your kids hair and watch sesame street for an hour, but to me it's the best thing in the world.
If you can't compromise with your friends and find common ground on things you enjoy doing and find other ways to have fun with them and create new stories to tell well.
That's on you man.
Why not? I just turned 31 and I mostly date girls in their early to mid 20s... Like him,I also plan to keep saving money, dating younger ladies, and have a wife and kids in my mid to late 30s when I'm way better off financially. Seems sensible to me.
Frozenprince
Banned
I mean. Really. It sounds like you want drinking buddies, not friends.
Do you know what the majority of my friends and I's conversations with each other are? Calling each other the same juvenile insults we always have while talking about the mundane crap of our day to day lives. One of them is a nurse, the other is an undergrad, we don't go out drinking together all that much, most of the conversations we have are, you know, conversations. Interactions, general small, fun experiences.
Not EVERY interaction you have with your friends needs to be about stories of adventures and debauchery. Most of the conversations with people you consider your friends will and should be relatively mundane because they are your friends and you share interests and history.
Maybe that's just me, but it really doesn't sound like you think of these parents as your friends, as much as you think of them as your buddies.
Friends and buddies are two different things.
Do you know what the majority of my friends and I's conversations with each other are? Calling each other the same juvenile insults we always have while talking about the mundane crap of our day to day lives. One of them is a nurse, the other is an undergrad, we don't go out drinking together all that much, most of the conversations we have are, you know, conversations. Interactions, general small, fun experiences.
Not EVERY interaction you have with your friends needs to be about stories of adventures and debauchery. Most of the conversations with people you consider your friends will and should be relatively mundane because they are your friends and you share interests and history.
Maybe that's just me, but it really doesn't sound like you think of these parents as your friends, as much as you think of them as your buddies.
Friends and buddies are two different things.
Well there is nothing contradictory about that really. The quoted study only looked at happiness for the first two years of a parents life, during the most difficult part of raising a child. Could definitely be the case that parents are happier than non-parents in the long run.
Marty Chinn
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http://www.scu.edu/business/economi...ppiness-of-Parents-Draft-JPopEcon-4-10-14.pdf
Also the studies that show happiness are in the long run, not during the first couple of years which are some of the hardest, especially for first time parents.
Gravy Boat
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Lol. I went to Paris in September with my girlfriend and our 11 month old daughter and did pretty much everything you list as a super rad experience. We rode the metro, we went to the top of the Eiffle tower, we went shopping, we went on a boat trip down the Senne, we ate in fancy restaurants, we went to Disney Land and rode roller coasters. We even managed to find time to get shitfaced drunk and gamble one night in a Paris casino before heading to a club. Granted we had a sitter for that particular night.
Oppo
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you know what you are missing? things that don't involve conspicuous consumption.
I don't have kids. married. here are some trips we have done:
- hiking to Machu Picchu
- cycling in Outer Quebec
- South African Safari
- sailing down the east coast of America
- nighttime cave diving in Cuba
You know what I saw at all of these activities? every one? kids doing the same with their families. you know what I did not see? turbodouche fratboys flashing empty brands and getting "inspired" by ultra orthodox Yelp excursions. cause all that is good for is boasting to other people who are also somehow impressed by a sunglasses logo. broaden yourself, man.
also, watch American Psycho again because I feel you missed the point.
Most people have nothing truly exciting to talk about. I'm sure almost every anecdote about your startup is as boring as your lame travelogue.
At least with kids, until they are teenagers, never fail to surprise you with the shit they come up with and can/can't do. If I go a week without seeing my nephews I can come back and it's like they were switched at the park with some different children. Facial features, height, vocabulary, interests. Kids are the best.
At least with kids, until they are teenagers, never fail to surprise you with the shit they come up with and can/can't do. If I go a week without seeing my nephews I can come back and it's like they were switched at the park with some different children. Facial features, height, vocabulary, interests. Kids are the best.
This is the picture I'm building of Tabris:
1) It's not fun/interesting unless alcohol is involved somewhere.
2) It's not fun/interesting unless a fair bit of money has been spent in the process.
3) He believes an activity is interesting because Tabris has done it. Interest and excitement becomes inherent purely by his very presence. The fact that billions of people may have done the same activity with or without kids is not interesting because Tabris wasn't the one doing it.
1) It's not fun/interesting unless alcohol is involved somewhere.
2) It's not fun/interesting unless a fair bit of money has been spent in the process.
3) He believes an activity is interesting because Tabris has done it. Interest and excitement becomes inherent purely by his very presence. The fact that billions of people may have done the same activity with or without kids is not interesting because Tabris wasn't the one doing it.
Parent's vacation story:
"So we got on the plane but my kid didn't get much sleep so he cried the entire flight. Once we got there, we took a nap because we were so exhausted. Then we went to the beach and watched while the kids ran around playing. I was able to read that book I had been putting off reading for so long. It was so nice to get a bit of a break. Then we got a family breakfast and watched friends episodes before our brisket BBQ."
Non-parent vacation story:
"So we were eating this amazing set menu at Kumoro, which was this little restaurant we found on some side street on a rainy night in Tokyo, with like 8 seats around a bar with a team of chefs cooking in front of you. To the left of us were these Japanese salary men drinking sake who ordered me an extra sake during the meal, which was super cool of them, and to the right of us an older couple who I think were on their anniversery.
We were in the middle of our meal when this person pops into the restaurant and mentions something to the main chef, who I swear looks like the Japanese George Constanza. I don't pay too much attention, but then all of sudden a guy with a camera comes in, then a couple more people along with another cameraman, a guy with a micboom, and finally 2 guitar players. They set up around the restaurant, and it's really small, so almost all of the restaurant was full. I have no clue what's going on but the cameras are pointed at me.
Then this really stylish older guy comes in with a mic, and starts talking to the chef. The chef gets him a beer, then he looks towards me and starts talking to me. I can't make out most of what he's saying, my girl answers a couple of his questions for me since she speaks Japanese but I just keep saying Hai and smiling along.
Apparently he was asking me if I spoke Japanese and whether I would like to hear a song my girl tells me later, as she was super intimidated by all the cameras to tell me then. He then raises up his beer, everyone says Kanpai! in the restaurant, so I do the same with my Sake, and starts singing a song directly to me as the guitar players start strumming. It was kind of lounge band music / jazz / folk singing. I'm looking around and the cameras are going between me and the host. He finishes and raises his glass back to me so I do the same, not really knowing what's going on.
He then sings a couple more songs for the restaurant which the Japanese salary men to the left of me join in, and then with a final Kanpai!, finishes off his beer and leaves. The rest of the group leaves at the same time. Some lady comes up to me, gives me a paper sheet written in Japanese and tells me to fill it out. My girl mentions it's a waiver form so I sign off on it. The salary men buy me another drink and we finish up the meal.
So long story short, that guy was apparently a popular variety tv show host on Fuji tv and I am going to be on it during a segment where they surprise random restaurants with some songs."
LookAtMeGo
Member
I stopped hanging out with my last group of friends because thats all they did was go out, get fucked up, bang this girl, ended up here, got more fucked up, went there, repeat. That shit was fun for about 15 years but it got boring. I think I grew up or something. Beach parties, house parties, boat parties, after parties, costume parties. Shit was fun, lots of good memories. It also got old. Same old shit all the time.
They all think I'm boring because I dont like to do that shit anymore and I'd rather talk about what I made for dinner yesterday or what I built or fixing something on the car, how I smoked and canned some salmon I caught, a movie I just watched, something I read about ect. I think they are boring because they tell the same stories over and over because they do the same shit all the time.
They all think I'm boring because I dont like to do that shit anymore and I'd rather talk about what I made for dinner yesterday or what I built or fixing something on the car, how I smoked and canned some salmon I caught, a movie I just watched, something I read about ect. I think they are boring because they tell the same stories over and over because they do the same shit all the time.
Frozenprince
Banned
Bruh. Real life isn't you being Jesse from Full House 24/7.
Also p sure you have no idea what parents do on vacation w/their kids. Also, your story sounds incredibly boring, and I'd be saying that if this was 5 years ago and my kid didn't even exist as a thought yet.
Please. Please do this. Please. I'm begging you.
Such as...
the list of things you've done on these trips, minus the obvious drinking benders
Oh snap is that the point they're making flying over your head?
I'm a boring guy AND I'm single. The thing that I'm perplexed by is that apparently, there's something wrong with that.
My daily routine is boring, my job is boring (it's a well paying job and it doesn't suck and I enjoy doing it, but it's not exciting). I literally spend all my free time on video games (GAF included) and anime. I also have boring friends who are also fans of video games and anime, with some jock friends that love sports who occasionally ask me to join them. They're all people I very much enjoy being around.
The thing is, I love my boring life. I have the dispensable income to fuel both my love of food and my hobbies that I've had since I was a kid, I have a great circle of friends who always invite me to events, and I'm finally starting to enter the dating scene.
See? I'm a boring guy, and I absolutely do not hate myself for it. Sure, I have a few cool and fun stories that involve Tibet protesters, Triads, and Yakuza, but I don't have THAT many of those.
My daily routine is boring, my job is boring (it's a well paying job and it doesn't suck and I enjoy doing it, but it's not exciting). I literally spend all my free time on video games (GAF included) and anime. I also have boring friends who are also fans of video games and anime, with some jock friends that love sports who occasionally ask me to join them. They're all people I very much enjoy being around.
The thing is, I love my boring life. I have the dispensable income to fuel both my love of food and my hobbies that I've had since I was a kid, I have a great circle of friends who always invite me to events, and I'm finally starting to enter the dating scene.
See? I'm a boring guy, and I absolutely do not hate myself for it. Sure, I have a few cool and fun stories that involve Tibet protesters, Triads, and Yakuza, but I don't have THAT many of those.
You're struggling so goddamn hard to justify your own lifestyle to a bunch of strangers, Tabris. The fuck are you even hoping to achieve.
People pursue whatever they feel gives them the most fulfilment in life. Be it a career, academia, family, love or travel. All are valid.
You seem to think that the universal epitome of living is doing wacky shit and getting liquored up while bumbling from one zany scenario to the next. You're basically cosplaying some hot-shot playboy living the life that you think everyone dreams about. Fact is, a lot of people would find those experiences extremely shallow and completely devoid of meaning or purpose. It's like you've constructed your own idea of 'fun' exclusively from watching movies.
But at this point you seem like you're committed to your flimsy online persona. Good thread.
People pursue whatever they feel gives them the most fulfilment in life. Be it a career, academia, family, love or travel. All are valid.
You seem to think that the universal epitome of living is doing wacky shit and getting liquored up while bumbling from one zany scenario to the next. You're basically cosplaying some hot-shot playboy living the life that you think everyone dreams about. Fact is, a lot of people would find those experiences extremely shallow and completely devoid of meaning or purpose. It's like you've constructed your own idea of 'fun' exclusively from watching movies.
But at this point you seem like you're committed to your flimsy online persona. Good thread.
bobs...onGaf
Member
The thread backlash is almost as bad as the op
So much hyperbole everywhere
The op comes across as living a transparent lifestyle but honestly - the 'what common things haven't you done' thread is depressing and more people really should venture out of their comfort zone and try new things. I can't think of a person I find interesting that doesn't want to experience new things on a relatively regular basis.
Going to vegas every weekend would be boring but I think the op is basically just saying he would rather have a board games night or easy going night in with new parents than have them insist on hitting a bar and then go home early. It sounds like his ideal weekend is travel and party and I can relate to that but you can't expect and demand people to be available for that. A lot of the time more realistically chilling at someone's house ends up being the best kind of evening. OP if you haven't done so you should really set the precedence and invite your friends over for a quiet evening
op comes across terribly but this whole thread is a disaster
As for parents being boring - I actually genuinely think hearing about your child's progression can be pretty interesting but if you takeover the conversation just to show me pics I hate you. I know people on both ends of the spectrum - some who can still hold a versatile conversation and others who literally kill any conversation they jump into just to relate everything back to their kids
Edit: must admit I misread some of tabris's posts, my bad! The backlash to doing things from some people is still jarring to me but I now think OP is getting what he deserves!
So much hyperbole everywhere
The op comes across as living a transparent lifestyle but honestly - the 'what common things haven't you done' thread is depressing and more people really should venture out of their comfort zone and try new things. I can't think of a person I find interesting that doesn't want to experience new things on a relatively regular basis.
Going to vegas every weekend would be boring but I think the op is basically just saying he would rather have a board games night or easy going night in with new parents than have them insist on hitting a bar and then go home early. It sounds like his ideal weekend is travel and party and I can relate to that but you can't expect and demand people to be available for that. A lot of the time more realistically chilling at someone's house ends up being the best kind of evening. OP if you haven't done so you should really set the precedence and invite your friends over for a quiet evening
op comes across terribly but this whole thread is a disaster
As for parents being boring - I actually genuinely think hearing about your child's progression can be pretty interesting but if you takeover the conversation just to show me pics I hate you. I know people on both ends of the spectrum - some who can still hold a versatile conversation and others who literally kill any conversation they jump into just to relate everything back to their kids
Edit: must admit I misread some of tabris's posts, my bad! The backlash to doing things from some people is still jarring to me but I now think OP is getting what he deserves!
CaviarMeths
Member
FTFY. It's not a boring anecdote, but you filled with a bunch of unnecessary details that nobody would find interesting. This is an edited version for you to tell everyone you know. They might even invite you the next games night if you tell this one instead.
Also, if you're telling this story to people you know, "my girl" sounds weird and a little creepy. Just say her name.
In my boring spare time, I edit prose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Friends_episodes
Gravy Boat
Member
None of this sounds interesting or exciting to me. I don't like Japanese food or sake, I don't like being the centre of attention, I don't know any Japanese TV Show hosts and I don't like it when people sing when I'm trying to eat.
You're also really bad at telling stories, too much padding and unnecessary info. Maybe that's why you don't get invited to games nights.
Serious question though, does your whole life revolve around having interesting stores to tell other people? Do you care more about doing interesting things, or seeming interesting to other people?
TickleMeElbow
Member
The non-parent story (yours) is only interesting due to a totally random occurrence.
The parent's story would've been interesting too if their kid happened to get eaten by a shark or some shit.
Mazdaspeed
Member
The repeating mention of brisket and Friends is really making this thread outstanding
You have to be quite possibly one of the most deluded ppl on gaf .
1) if your life was such hot shit like some billionaire playboy you wouldn't be justifying it on gaf
2) you'd be secure enough and also understand other points of view cause when you have thing you also yearn for other aspects of life
3) god I feel sorry for you op if you haven't played a fun board game with hot girls it's as fun as a club if pl are up for it makes for a really fun night too then you can get drunks/fuck/whatever you feel appropriate
So sad I don't enjoy red meat but a well done bbq chicken or charbroiled shrimp yum yum
Parents can still have that story. They can either leave the kid with a sitter/family member that goes on the trip or drop them off at grandma/grandpas. There's nothing that involves not being a parent to be able to experience the second story.
Hyperactivity
Banned
Damn, you must have some weird vacations for every single one of them to turn out that way
choodi
Banned
The biggest irony of this post is that at least the parent-holiday story was over and done with nice and quick. I read the whole thing and, while it was no my idea of a great holiday, at least it was short and to the point.
The single-guy holiday story was just like all boring ass holiday stories where the person thinks the listener is really impressed by the things that happened, when in actual fact, unless you were there, they are boring as shit.
The difference is, at least the parent had the decency to make it short. Tabris on the other hand had to just go on and on about how awesome his holiday was until we all stopped reading about 2 paragraphs in.
Uh, did you skip past the entire thread and then just make a blanket statement?
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OOPS. Sounds like you did, given he is being a turbo-douche toward people that invite him over for casual conversations that may include conversations about their kids but he wants to go to a Titty-bar or "Adult" themed "childfree" zones because he thinks he can't do the same thing as some of his trips without the massive benders with kids.
But no, he can't have an evening of playing Dungeons and Dragons (I'm half-kidding on this one) or some other board-game because it doesn't involve drinking for him.
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Now before you start, nobody is saying his "trips" or ideas are necessarily wrong. But his "oh but having kids will totally kill your social life and never let you do these things" is half-wrong. Such as:
Exactly. There is nothing stopping the parents from going on trips with/without the kids. It's just a vast majority of parents decide to "put it off" because they either think the kids aren't old enough to appreciate it and/or they don't have the money and then eventually they get too old and go "damn, we really should've done that." Which, I guess is Tabris' point, but Tabris also won't concede that sometimes not going on extravagant trips and hanging out at said new parents place with them and having some non-ritzy conversations can be a good "time-waste" as well.
CaviarMeths
Member
But drinking is like the best part of D&D.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Got to admit I completely missed some of his worst posts and just knee jerked at the people hating on going to vegas
My bad!
Frozenprince
Banned
Then you're not their friend.
A friends job isn't to entertain you. You should define what is and isn't boring about a group event based on the academic idea of the event. You should base it on how much you enjoy peoples company.
It really just sounds like you don't really have friends. Again. You have buddies, they aren't the same thing.
so i'm not a parent, but my parents took us on vacation around locations in california, and in the 90s we won a game show that we extended to a two week trip on the east coast. my dad's a history buff so he got to see gettysburg, dc, and other historical places. when we were in tahoe, we'd go tobogganing in front of the place we were staying. even when we were really little, like 3-7, we would take vacations out to arizona. i remember one where dad drove through the night, and i woke up to see the sun rise over the arizona desert. it was awesome. my parents (especially my dad), used vacations as a really good reason to travel because we could all do something together as a family. it was fine for them when we went to places like vegas too, since my mom loves to gamble, and my dad kind of doesn't - so he actually had something to do while my mom would be having fun.
QuicheFontaine
Member
The hell is your problem with brisket OP???
Edit: lol beaten three times on this page
Edit: lol beaten three times on this page
bobs...onGaf
Member
Got to say your doing yourself a disservice if you think a games night is boring. I like to do the whole vegas/ tokyo thing but sometimes a games night is a lot of fun
Give it a go - it may suprise you
The reality is - your friends who want to do a games night probably don't want to party that night and while I've had some great party nights - the nights in with Friends always beat them out
Thats such a boring parents story. Let me tell you a FUN story:
I went out to a bar with my cool friends that don't have kids. The funniest thing happened - one of my friends was so drunk he wanged his head on something because he wasn't aware of it. Then we were seeing who could lift the most weight so we lifted each other up, and my drunk friend accidentally me in the balls as I lifted him up.
So funny.
That's the irony - people generally don't care about parents talking about their kids about as much as they don't care about people talking about their vacation.
Kos Luftar
Member
Tabris has become a GAF meme.
DistortionOfReality
Member
I don't see how anyone posting so regularly on a forum dedicated to video games can have such a problem with the way other people live their lives.
I agree very much, but would have been far less polite in saying so. In fact, I'm amazed at how polite people have generally been in this thread.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/07/7-ways-to-be-insufferable-on-facebook.html
Every Tabris post is a region A post.
It's Reyn Time!
Member
I once successfully evaded the police while carrying an apocalyptically drunk friend on my shoulders. We ducked into an alley and didn't get caught, despite said friend loudly ranting about UK agriculture law.
I got Brian May (of Queen fame's) autograph while gushing blood from a nasty mosh pit related injury to my eye. I rambled something concussed about music and you could actually see the mixture of concern and disinterest in his handwriting.
As a house party I hosted was winding down I noticed a flashing yellow light coming through the curtains. Several friends of mine had raided a nearby construction/roadworks site and stolen every kind of stop sign, traffic cone, barricade etc and filled my front garden with them. The flashing lights came from the icing on the cake - a 12 foot tall set of battery operated traffic lights, cycling through red, amber, green. Thousands of pounds of equipment illuminating the whole street with the crime they'd just committed.
At another house party we stole an industrial roll of cling film from work, threaded a baseball bat through it and cling filmed the following; our friend Sarah to the staircase, our friend Tom inside his own car while he slept (he had to roll down a window and use his keys to cut his way out in the morning, it took him about an hour and a half) and both ends of a street using trees on either side of the road.
At that same house party the miserable shit I lived next door to kept phoning the police to complain and spying on people in our garden from his back window, so we faked an accidental death, complete with a hasty mannequin burial to give him a genuine reason to call the police.
I've been to a bunch of checklist places and done tourist bollocks, I've been blackout drunk, I've tripped my balls off and I've been as high as it's possible for me to get. I've been chased by the police, private security, thugs, a ticket tout, a German pimp, chavs and junkies, been attacked and fought back and I've walked home with the taste of blood in my mouth. I've made poor decisions because of lowered inhibitions and nightclub lighting and I'm sure I've BEEN the poor decision on more than one occasion. I've been disappointment with women I yearned for and fell deeply in love with ones I never expected I would. I did all of this while going to college, working full time and maintaining good friendships and relationships.
That part of my life was done by my mid twenties. It was reckless, experimental, insane at times and a whole lot of fun, but to have carried on chasing that would've been pretty pathetic going into my late twenties, thirties. I'm in my mid thirties and a parent now, and a fucking good one I have to say, in part because I got all of that shit out of my system while my body was capable of keeping up with it. I'm raising a human life and using the experiences I've had in my 35 years to shape it as best I can. That may seem boring to you, but by any scale it's more important and meaningful than eating at a well reviewed restaurant. Hopefully that's a value I can teach to my boy so that he doesn't end up a braggart and eternal bore who sees other people as being there for his entertainment.
That's the part you don't get, your friends who've become parents will occasionally wish they could have a night away, some rest perhaps, but by and large they knew what they were getting into and decided the sleepless nights and shitty nappies would be worth it. They'll have a romanticised notion of doing the things you do, but here's the thing: they're not wishing they could do it with you. They see your social media updates and they skip right past them, because they've decided what they're doing is more important and more rewarding than hanging out with you.
I got Brian May (of Queen fame's) autograph while gushing blood from a nasty mosh pit related injury to my eye. I rambled something concussed about music and you could actually see the mixture of concern and disinterest in his handwriting.
As a house party I hosted was winding down I noticed a flashing yellow light coming through the curtains. Several friends of mine had raided a nearby construction/roadworks site and stolen every kind of stop sign, traffic cone, barricade etc and filled my front garden with them. The flashing lights came from the icing on the cake - a 12 foot tall set of battery operated traffic lights, cycling through red, amber, green. Thousands of pounds of equipment illuminating the whole street with the crime they'd just committed.
At another house party we stole an industrial roll of cling film from work, threaded a baseball bat through it and cling filmed the following; our friend Sarah to the staircase, our friend Tom inside his own car while he slept (he had to roll down a window and use his keys to cut his way out in the morning, it took him about an hour and a half) and both ends of a street using trees on either side of the road.
At that same house party the miserable shit I lived next door to kept phoning the police to complain and spying on people in our garden from his back window, so we faked an accidental death, complete with a hasty mannequin burial to give him a genuine reason to call the police.
I've been to a bunch of checklist places and done tourist bollocks, I've been blackout drunk, I've tripped my balls off and I've been as high as it's possible for me to get. I've been chased by the police, private security, thugs, a ticket tout, a German pimp, chavs and junkies, been attacked and fought back and I've walked home with the taste of blood in my mouth. I've made poor decisions because of lowered inhibitions and nightclub lighting and I'm sure I've BEEN the poor decision on more than one occasion. I've been disappointment with women I yearned for and fell deeply in love with ones I never expected I would. I did all of this while going to college, working full time and maintaining good friendships and relationships.
That part of my life was done by my mid twenties. It was reckless, experimental, insane at times and a whole lot of fun, but to have carried on chasing that would've been pretty pathetic going into my late twenties, thirties. I'm in my mid thirties and a parent now, and a fucking good one I have to say, in part because I got all of that shit out of my system while my body was capable of keeping up with it. I'm raising a human life and using the experiences I've had in my 35 years to shape it as best I can. That may seem boring to you, but by any scale it's more important and meaningful than eating at a well reviewed restaurant. Hopefully that's a value I can teach to my boy so that he doesn't end up a braggart and eternal bore who sees other people as being there for his entertainment.
That's the part you don't get, your friends who've become parents will occasionally wish they could have a night away, some rest perhaps, but by and large they knew what they were getting into and decided the sleepless nights and shitty nappies would be worth it. They'll have a romanticised notion of doing the things you do, but here's the thing: they're not wishing they could do it with you. They see your social media updates and they skip right past them, because they've decided what they're doing is more important and more rewarding than hanging out with you.
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