I'm not a massive fan of nightclubs and heavy drinking at the best of times so usually avoid the work's nights outs. I did however agree to one a few months back and was left a little disalusioned by it to be honest and can't decide whether I'm justified in that or simply too old for my time!
Firstly before the night even begun it was determined that the sole purpose of the night was to get as drunk as possible by the end of it. I remember thinking this way when I was 16 and the thought is a little alien to me since I grew up!
Secondly I was shocked to see one of the women going around sticking her camera down everyone's tops to take a pic of their cleaverage (which would later end up on facebook). This is apparantly a tradition and everyone must have a boob picture taken 
Thirdly a few of the women seemed to morph into exotic dancers and started feeling each other up, spreading themselves across a pool table in rather luring poses and pole dancing around a beam for the benefit of the DJ.
And apart from this - the night seemed to turn into a free-for-all with regards to snogging random blokes despite the fact that their husbands would later be picking them up from outside the club!!
I thought maybe it was just an extreme night but I noticed on facebook photos from this weekend and it looks like a repeat of the night I went on. Boob pics, exotic dancing, pouting into the camera like a 13 year old school girl and random snogging.
I won't be going out with them again. Is it me?? am I too old before my time or is this just not normal for 30+ year old women, some of whom are married with kids and professional careers etc.
AIBU?
Is it normal for women in their 30s to act like stupid school girls on a night out?
MuckyBogStain · 24/08/2011 17:26
I'm loving this thread. I have also witnessed "fingering at the bar" although the boys hand was down the back of the girls pants so I could not comment on arsehole / non arsehole. He saw me and a friend staring 
at him, withdrew his hand sniffed his fingers grinned at us and carried on.
This was on the main street in Birmingham whatever that is called - it escapes me.....
Cannot get Sophie Ellis Bextor out of my head either. I like the woman drawing the giant frosty cocks though :)
I'm 34 and can't remember the last time I had a night out 
having said that I must be old before my years because i have done none of what you describe.
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I think I was probably grown up from birth. 
I suppose it's just a case of what you're used to and what you consider to be entertaining. I can't think of anything less entertaining than what the OP describes, but I am sure others would think my idea of entertainment (gardening and playing the piano) was pretty deadly.
I'm in my mid thirties and relish going out now because all the 'pressure' to be available/hyper-sexy/lairy is totally gone. My mates and I get drunk, sure, but as well as that we natter our heads off on everything from world politics to eyeliner, and dance like crazy people with not a thought of how we look.
Soooo, I would say YANBU to think what on earth or these people doing, but YABU if you think that having fun and getting drunk cannot be done without lapsing into the hideousness described above. These people sound like they'd be desperate exhibitionist horrors whether they were eighteen or thirty eight!
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