To wish the fun police would just go away and leave people alone

[Jusfloatingby]

I was at an anniversary party last night. In the living area there was music and dancing, in the kitchen there was a gang of people (including me) sitting around chatting, drinking and having a laugh. In comes one of the fun police insisting we should 'join the party' - which we thought we were doing- and come into the sitting room and dance around the place with them. The reason we had chosen the kitchen in the first place was because we didn't want to dance and preferred to chat and joke and enjoy ourselves in our own way. She just wouldn't go away and everyone reluctantly trailed after her into the living area.
Its the same at weddings. These pests just won't let people sit back and watch the dancing or slip into the bar with a group of friends they want to have a catch up with.

Why can't people be left alone at parties to just enjoy themselves without knowing that any minute some jolly 'rocking around the Christmas tree' type is going to come up and start haranguing them and forcibly pulling them out onto the dance floor, or up to take part in the karaoke or do the conga.

AIBU to think these self styled 'life and soul of the party' types are a PITA?

fuck of Eileen

that has to be the best line i have read in a long while

I love you people... all the best bits about parties are the intense conversations in the kitchen!

Ditto to non-dancing DHs: mine once refused to dance with my (female) boss at a charity ball, just sat there very calmly saying "sorry xxx, but I DON'T dance". Didnt appear to affect my career, although I did have to dance with boss's DH which was a bit of a pain.

Justfloating - all the "fun" people are presumably out having it, while all the kitchen-at-party types are lurking at home on their laptops, maybe?

EndoplasmicReticulum you have just given me the most horrible flashback of an exam i failed really badly when i thought studying meant going to pub a lot............ wipes sweaty hands [grimace]

Yanbu, I fecking hate dancing, I fecking hate loud music, but you won't find me dragging people off the dance floor and into the kitchen to talk ( well possibly Daniel Craig, but I digress)
I like somewhere to sit, somewhere to put my drink, and conversation without having to shout over the top of music.

roger I agree, I bloody HATE loud music. It is the scourge of so many bars. My partner and I are forced into either Wetherspoons or this ridiculously expensive but lovely cocktail bar (minimum spend £10 per drink plus service) because they're the only places near us that don't play loud music.

And yes, Daniel Craig could drag me anywhere but one of the reasons I love him is that you just KNOW he wouldn't be the type.

YANBU.

Everyone know that the best craic is closest to the wine source in the kitchen.

Plus, once the 'life' and 'soul' types knacker themselves out and bugger off home, that's when the push-on-through-til-dawn types come into their own and fashion a dance floor in the kitchen.

Well, that's how it works at ours...

I have a truly excellent death stare, which I have perfected over many years of this. If that fails, I tell them I have explosive diarrhoea (sp?). Works a treat