How many times has this happened to you? You’re a teetotaling introvert who got invited to to the local Petit Point and Tapestry’s weekly meeting. You decide to attend as you think this will be a rather sedate affair with everyone absorbed in their current project. You arrive. You say hello. Then cases and cases of whiskey arrive. Soon people are taking off their shirts and punching others in their big, stupid noses. One of them grabs you buy the collar to tell you how Sweden got screwed at the Treaty of Wespthalia in 1649. And you know the treaty was signed in 1649. But you don’t care anymore.
You feel your soul wilt to a mere wisp. You want to merge your molecules into that wall to avoid any more human contact. You need to go home. You yearn to recline in your chair, watch Lassie, and sip on a cooling lemonade. But if you up and leave, people will hate you, call you a snob, a lutefisk lover. If only there were a way to quickly leave party hell without becoming a social pariah.
This party poser leads us to
TODAY’S AWESOME WORD
Lodrunk
Awesome entry #27
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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