Numbers usually vary from three or four people on a Thursday night to maybe 20 max on a Saturday IF we open up. In our hood, people are cruising around and living it up a lot. If they're not at my place, they're somewhere else. Mainly we just drink beer, watch sports, and throw bags. And #### off wives here and there.
You gotta remember something crucial here:
My hood is made up of a LOT of transplants plus people who grew up in Mt. P in the early 2000s. They either grew up living a party or they don't have any family around here, so the hood becomes the family and a very social one at that. Many of us are already spending Christmas Day together.
But when we DO throw a block party, we do it right. The St. Pat's party is legendary.
Listen, drive yo ### down here for a few beers one weekend and see what it's about. I'll put out an extra pallet for you to sit on.
I usually have two kegs on tap and just ask people throw enough cash back at me to break even. But then I also drink enough of the beer that I won't break even.
When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!
Hey, I don't want to travel, not in my blood. I could not care less about sight-seeing. I do want to be around people and enjoy conversations and food.
I'm not saying I throw parties all the time, but I do like hanging out w/ friends and kids friends...pretty core component of being a human. the whole social interaction thing.
I for one am glad you are stopping. You are one of the most ignorant posters ever. You obviously think very highly of your own opinion, unlike the rest of us - RockHillTiger
-I'm very sociable. My wife says I'm not an extrovert; I'm THE extrovert. And that increases with the more beer/bourbon I drink. I like playing games like cornhole or darts or gambling with dice, I like watching football with friends, and I like good conversation. COVID was pretty nightmarish for me when I couldn't socialize like I used to.
-I like kids... for the most part. I don't like them when their parents treat them like untrained lab mixes who can run free up and down the beach without supervision or guidance or respect for others. But usually we're hanging out well after their bed times.
-After a hard day, sometimes it's nice to unwind with others. Other days, I don't want to talk to anyone. All depends. On the weekend, I want to be out and about with others; if not at my house, somewhere else.
-I have some really, really good friends in the hood I love to see, and they've said the garage bar is an escape for them sometimes from their own hectic lives.
-Our neighborhood is a very sociable one and tends to attract people like that. My neighbor three doors down (and a good friend) moved there because he met us all hanging out in the driveway one day. That was the deciding factor for him when house searching.
Spent a golf weekend in Garden City in April with some usual suspects at the usual house (you need to get out there next year) where we've gotten in trouble in the past. We did the little bar/boardwalk walk in Murrel's Inlet one night.
We kept walking past the packed, loud ones, and I hoped no one would suggest we go in there. Thankfully, everyone was happy with a smaller, chiller bar and the patio outside. Twenty years ago, it would have been a different story.
I need someone like this in my hood, a place to go down a beer or two some nights. It aint gonna be me though because my schedule with the kids keeps me busy 90% of the time and so my garage bar would be closed most of the time.
This happens a lot. Dude will put his kids down to bed, wife will turn in early, he'll hop in the cart to join us for a little bit. His family doesn't have to worry about him since he's just a couple of minutes away a street or two over.
our hood is very polarized. either old / IE types, or our age w/ young kids types. hardly any inbetween. there's 5 or 6 families that we know well, hang out very regularly with 3 (10 kids and 1 on the way plus my 2). during the summer we'll rotate houses for cookouts and what not.
we also deer hunt / golf / (used to) workout / pizza night together
wives get along, kids get along, usually a good time. I'll go to one house and it'll be bros drinking bourbon, and the chicks come to my house for wine or whatever after kids go down.
I think it's cool - my neighborhood was very stuffy growing up so having a bunch of kids seems to be ideal for em to hangout
only "big" party I have is the crawfish boil. but we'll have half dozen or so "cookouts" where different groups of friends and kids come over, and vice versa.
like you man, I'd take that all day long and twice on sunday instead of going to some public place.
we kind of have our little pizza joint on Fridays locked down, so at this point that's just an extension of the hood.
There are some streets in the hood and connecting hoods with drama, but our little street really lucked out: we're either all friends, or at least we're all cordial if we don't hang out. No complaints or drama or battles. That alone makes us not want to upgrade to another house even though we have talked about it from time to time.
We have 12 households on our street. Of them, seven are good friends and hang out all the time. Of the other five, only one doesn't join us every once in a blue moon. And that one is friendly and just keeps to itself.
So we got very lucky, but also good times and conversation helped create that.
great neighbors and friends. Until all the kids grew up, moved away, parents started moving also. We were the last couple left from the four that would get together all the time over food and drinks and kids.
We are still friends, but our old street is now occcupied by a new set of families with kids - which is great for them, we were just going to be the old couple at the end of the street.
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