To wonder why "Christmas parties" turn everyone into teenagers?

[TammySwansonTwo]

Fb is filling up with everyone's hilarious stories of getting utterly paralytic, throwing up in cabs / on strangers, behaving inappropriately with colleagues....

What is this? I get it when you're an 18 year old with no idea how to handle your booze properly, but what makes adults in their 30s and 40s act like this? I don't get it.

[user1471517900]

Coz it can be fun......

[PinkHeart5914]

Admittedly some of it can be fun but not the throwing up or kissing your boss behind your dh back, I think some people have never grown up and at a Christmas party they can you know blame it on the alcohol

[Eightbelles]

They just use alcohol and Christmas as the excuse to behave badly. People at my work often get arrested and then obviously fired. Not sure a night out is worth that.

[Doobigetta]

In my experience the people who go overboard and make twats of themselves are those who don't actually go out very often. People with a reasonably active social life all year round are more likely to see it as an extension of work, rather than a Big Night Out, and as a result be more restrained. It's the difference between "omg I'm going OUT OUT!" and "so I'm spending Friday night with my boss "