Some nights are good just because one small thing goes right, right at the beginning of the evening, and puts a glossy sheen on all subsequent events. Some nights are unbelievably enjoyable purely because some terrible thing you feared would happen doesn’t go off. But the most perfect nights are the result of a cacophony of tiny mosaic events following each other in perfect sequence, like puzzle pieces coming together to form an amazing picture, which is different from the one on the box.
As time goes by, you will be able to collect in your mind an assortment of these moments, and thus have about you the ingredients to a delicious soiree. Certain people are irreplaceable on a good night out, and without them, your puzzle will be left missing a vital organ. When planning a fantastic night out, you must at all costs make sure they are present!
Contrarily, the people that spell a perfect evening are often those who need the most persuasion to come. Perhaps it is this quality that makes them like a rare jewel whose presence reveals the crown of a good party. Either way, by bestowing on you these basic facts I hand you the quest of making sure they come out.
Here are some techniques I have employed to make sure my funnest friends do not spell disaster for a potentially great club sessions:
- Flattery will get you everywhere. Highlight to the point of irritation how much their presence will make the night. And suggest none too subtly that you are a mere representative of the tens of people crying in the lodge at the thought of a night without them.
- Sometimes force may be necessary. Bring a strong friend with you for such tasks as dragging the target out of bed and wrestling them down the stairs.
- Use props! Make sure they realise this isn’t just like any other night. Give them something to remember it by. For example, a black shaggy wig or some neon war-paint, so everyone can look back in the future and say “Remember the night the pulling-wig was born / we were all mistaken for sci-fi bond villains?”, and one person can feel a shudder of narrowly-avoided guilt as they hear: “Yeah, So-And-So almost didn’t come with us!”
- Finally, make sure it is a good night out! Sure, this person is special, but they’re not the whole book. Make sure everyone is up for it in the face, and that they realise the most important thing is the good of the night, and the quality of the gossip, even if it may mean some people looking a bit silly, or doing something they may regret for a few years to come.
I have genuinely had to do all these things in the past, and it hasn’t always been easy, but I have been on some meteorically awesome nights out!
Excellent picture mate!