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trof

(54,256 posts)
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 08:04 PM Jul 2016

I had my first, ever, Jello shot yeaterday.

It was tequila and lime.
It was OK.

We were invited to a party in the neighborhood.
People we don't know that well.
2 p.m.

Who has a 'party' at 2 p.m.?
Too late for lunch.
Too early for supper.
Too early for booze.

These folks are on a different schedule.
I declined adult bevs until 3:30, anyway.
My usual Happy Hour starts at 4ish.
What the hell. It was Saturday.


Food came out about 3 p.m.
Who the hell eats at 3 in the afternoon?
We went home at 5.
Messed up my whole evening.

I know, I know...I'm complaining about a gift horse.
Still...


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Skittles

(153,111 posts)
4. you I want I should kick their ill-timed partying asses, trof?
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 09:37 PM
Jul 2016

LEMME AT THEM!!! Alas, I don't even wake up until after 2PM

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
5. I had my first jello shot
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 11:04 PM
Jul 2016

last 4th of July, and my second one tonight.

Our really cool new young neighbors hooked me up.

They were festive and cute. Red, white and blue.

 

The Second Stone

(2,900 posts)
6. The Jello shot was invented by poltiical satirist Tom Lehrer
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 11:24 PM
Jul 2016

to get booze past the front gate of an army base.

Lehrer was the greatest mathematician to ever get chalk on his coat. And was our revenge against Denmark for Victor Borge.

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