There is nothing more annoying when you’re keen to let loose on a night out, but there’s that one friend who’s always wearing that I’d-rather-be-anywhere-but-here expression. It always puts a downer on the evening when one friend doesn’t seem to be having any fun. So ladies and gents, here’s how to keep your friend out past 10pm and have a wicked night!
I recently got back from a month long holiday to America, and what a country it is! Had an absolute blast there, I highly recommend it to anyone looking for good nights out. For those who haven’t been to America before, I had you in mind and took many notes so I could tell y’all what it’s really like from a Nightlife Correspondent’s point of view.
Coming as an international exchange student from Northern Ireland, let me give you three buzz words about the kind of clubs I have been to at home - cheap, sleazy and small. That said, you can have the best kind of nights there, especially when you put ‘£1′ and ‘shots’ together in one sentence.
How friggin’ frustrating is it when two of your buddies are each hosting a party on the same night! Argh! You like both friends, but you know it’ll probably be difficult to go to both, or at least somewhat awkward in that you go to one party then leave it to go to another. (Though I guess you could always call yourself this huge party animal for going to two parties in one night, woot woot!).
Is it just me, but have you ever had a time when you went to a party or a nightclub with your friend and their friends, and for a while they’re really friendly and chatty and you have a good time with them, but then once you’ve all left the club and start going your separate ways, they’re suddenly much less friendly?
Okay, so everyone has their own experiences and expectations. Take it from a country person who suddenly gets the idea to take on the big city nightlife; it is a bit of an eye opener. You won’t be seeing familiar faces, and you definitely can’t hustle your way into the club because you know the bouncer, chances of you knowing anyone is slim.
Every fuckwit with $25 is lining up to see The Great Gatsby in 3D, because for some ungodly reason everyone is gagging to see Baz Luhrman fingerbang the jazz-age like an autistic step daughter. But the Fitzgeralds – with their bipolar and substance dependence – weren’t the only party loving authors to get spewed out of the US.
Though I’m sure many bouncers out there would be fed up with the nightclub scene as it’s just work for them and not fun like it is for everyone else, plenty of them would love to go out and have a great night out too. They are human too (believe it or not). But like when having to deal with a bouncer at the door, there’s a lot of shit you have to put up from them when going clubbing with them too.
When asking a buddy what they did on the weekend and they tell you they got down and dirty clubbing, the follow up question is usually ‘did you hook up?’. Chatting up a sizzling hot number in the club is an integral and exciting part of the experience, but why is it so common out on a Friday night at a bar or on a dance floor and not at a local footy match or supermarket?
So, the first thing you want to do when you’re out for a girls night is have fun. In that case, planning the night makes it run much smoother. Finding out where to start the night and how to end it can be difficult, but a little preparation can stop you from ending your night on the roof of a hotel (just like in The Hangover!).