Sunday, July 13, 2008

Happy Birthday America Party!

For those of you who haven't been blessed with hearing my adventure last week, here goes. Out of boredom, and the chance to possibly meet 1/1000 normal people who are on craigslist, I've once and a while been scouring the "activities" section to see what's going on around here. Well about 4 weeks ago, I came across someone looking for a person to be in charge of grilling at their 4th of July celebration. The Wisconsinite in me came out, and stepped up to the plate, figuring the worst thing that would happen is that I'd waste a little bit of gas to get to the party and 2 hours of my life.

After committing to the party, I then found out it was a 40-and-over singles pool party. Many people seemed to have various ideas of how this was going to turn out from weird wrinkly men in leopard speedos, to a cougar party. I was mainly going for pure entertainment purposes, figuring that there would be a crazy mix of socially awkward people. It turned out to be that, and more.

There's not too many funny things to put into words, but the fact that I was given a "Hello my name is: Josh" nametag, and an american flag apron to wear while grilling, probably says enough. On top of that, those who were drinking were required to sign a waiver stating if we were in an accident on the way home, we would not sue the party's hostess for providing us with alcohol. Anyways, it turned out to be a hilarious experience, and was a solid way to spend 3 hours over the 4th weekend.
The one upside was that the house was pretty amazing, and was sitting right on top of a mountain with nothing but a huge cliff leading off the backyard. It would have been awesome to stay at night, because the stars were probably spectacular, but I definitely reached my limit after a certain point.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"from weird wrinkly men in leopard speedos, to a cougar party"

LOL! I can't believe you did that! The view does look nice though.

pnagel2 said...

From what I can gather, you did this mostly so you'd have something weird to blog about, because I would have never pegged you as someone who'd do something like this. Is LA making my close friend Josh extroverted? Anyways, hilarious post.

Josh said...

well, i originally signed up thinking it was going to be a legit party of people in my age range. unfortunately, common sense never kicked in and told me that if a group of people our age were having a party, at least ONE person would know how to grill. but i mostly signed up just to try and meet some people so i don't always have to hang out with people from work.

i'm proud to say, that although i'm enjoying blogging, i will never be addicted or care about it enough to adjust my everyday life just to talk about it on here.