Tonight, we dine in graveyard hell!

[Plaidman]

So everyone. Its time again. Once a year. Graveyard gets the crazies. Bartenders are going to be ubber busy, and making tons of tips.

I hope everyone working graveyard shifts with public stay safe, and ignore the many many drunk people there will be.

Our store is getting prepared. Our coolers are going to be locked earlier then normal, and the beer on display is being moved back. Maybe we won't get too many beer runs for once.

Gaw. I hate working new years eve.

[jedimaster91]

everyone working graveyard shifts with pubic

If that's the case, I really feel bad for those of you working tonight.

[smileyeagle1021]

I hope everyone working graveyard shifts with pubic stay safe,

I always stay safe when playing with the pubic

on a more serious note... assuming Delta *glare* doesn't cancel any more flights tonight should be one of our slowest nights (everyone who's coming into town will want to stay in downtown, not out by the airport).

[persephone]

I feel bad for anyone, anywhere, that has to work on New Years Eve. I know that a lot fo my friends who are waiters / bartenders like working New Years cause it's a busy night and they make a lot of money, but you couldn't pay me enough to deal with the idiots that come out on New Years.

I don't even go out on the roads after about 5 or so in the evening on New Years Eve. We stay at home, have a yummy yummy dinner and watch the fireworks all over the world on TV. Daughter tries to stay up but hasn't managed it yet. Maybe this year. And at midnight, we all go outside with the rest of the neighborhood, wish each other a happy New Year, give out hugs and toast with whatever you're drinking. It's fun and means none of us are on the road with the drunk crazies.

Though our town does this cool thing -- if you live within a certain area, you can call a designated number and they will send a tow truck out to tow your car home for free and give you a ride at the same time. It's supposed to help discourage people from driving drunk. It's been a pretty well used program in the past.

My thoughts will be with all of you tonight! Be safe and be careful!

[MannersMakethMan]

My thoughts will be with all of you tonight! Be safe and be careful!

I'd like to second this. Thank you to everyone who'll be working - you all have my best wishes for an easy shift, but above all keep yourself safe. We want to see you next year safe and sound. Same goes for anyone out and about too.

Happy new year to everyone here. I wish you all as few SCs as possible, and everything else you wish yourself.

[Chromatix]

Around here, New Year is one of the few occasions when fireworks are allowed to be bought and launched. In fact, the ban on them is lifted only between 6pm and 6am over the New Year event, though a significant number of people ignore that.

Which means that certain people are being stupid with them.

So far I've seen:

- Bangers being set off with no regard to who is walking or cycling past.

- Bangers being set off in an echoey underpass, where they're almost certainly going to deafen everyone in it.

- People not going anywhere near the safe distance away - and some even keeping hold of a lit firework, to aim it.

- Aiming said firework in the general direction of their "friends".

- Aiming said firework up into the canopy of a streetlamp.

- Hiding a lit firework behind an innocuous object near a busy shopping centre, so that it startles lots of people nearby.

Interestingly, all of the above were from people who, judging by approximate ages, haven't been through Finland's military service yet. Something tells me that kind of idiocy gets trained out of conscripts on the firing range.

I did directly see one non-sucky firework user, though. He'd set up a small display for (his?) children - and he'd done it in a nice open space, kept the kids (and presumably himself) well back, and by the time I went past, he was searching for the spent remains and collecting them. Now if only they were all like that...

[Bandit]

Well, I *had* been planning on stopping by the local council's shindig, but work just called for a problem on the other side of the country.

If I *ever* find this Murphy character, I'm going to take his laws and shove them sideways where the sun don't shine.

B

[iradney]

Our security guard is working tonight (our as in the security complex we live in!)
I did take him some home made snackies - couldn't take him a bottle of booze coz he could get fired for it tho...He's one of our better guys as well.

[dalesys]

If I *ever* find this Murphy character...

First correction to Murphy's Law:
Murphy was a blithering optimist.

Bonus points:
Name Murphy's mother's: Hometown, Occupation and Surname:











Chicago
Milkmaid
O'Leary

[Iris Kojiro]

I ended up having to work third shift on New Year's Eve. A few people felt bad that I was stuck there that night, but it wasn't a big deal. I haven't had any major plans for NYE the last couple of years.

[Pagan]

My friend and I had gone to Santa Fe yesterday and I stayed out at their place for dinner (about 15 miles from my place, new development, and dark as hell out there). I left there about 8pm and got home about 8:30pm and it was already starting to get crazy out there.

Though our town does this cool thing -- if you live within a certain area, you can call a designated number and they will send a tow truck out to tow your car home for free and give you a ride at the same time. It's supposed to help discourage people from driving drunk. It's been a pretty well used program in the past.

AAA here has the same thing called "Tipsy Tow". And our county has "Safe Ride". Just had to ask a bartender to call a cab and they county will pick up the tab. There was another one with NMDOT and the Downtown Action Team that went from Downtown any location within the ABQ city limits by reserving their space at sign-up table at a Downtown intersection. Which I think probably explains why it wasn't really being used by anyone last night.

Around here, New Year is one of the few occasions when fireworks are allowed to be bought and launched. In fact, the ban on them is lifted only between 6pm and 6am over the New Year event, though a significant number of people ignore that.

Heh, your not supposed to have fireworks in our county except for, like 1 July through the 5th July. But that didn't stop it from sounding like a war zone outside last night!

- Bangers being set off with no regard to who is walking or cycling past....

We have PSAs every New Year's to please not shoot guns into the air at midnight. Yet, we have geniuses that persist in doing this. Like they don't understand "what goes up must come down".

[smileyeagle1021]

We have PSAs every New Year's to please not shoot guns into the air at midnight. Yet, we have geniuses that persist in doing this. Like they don't understand "what goes up must come down".

coughcough Mythbusters did prove that if you were to shoot the gun exactly straight up that the bullets would be almost harmless coming down because of how they fall... the said... no one fires a gun exactly straight up and you aren't dealing with falling bullets but rather still active projectiles.

Oh, and the free rides... what a great idea... UTA has taken that idea though and turned it into fail. They offer free service on TRAX... however they weren't offering connecting bus service so you still had to drive home from the TRAX stations... thanks all you've done is spread out all the drunk drivers

[Chromatix]

Apparently there is a service in London where people can come and drive your car (with you in it) for you. They use tiny folding scooters to get there, and shove it in the boot while driving.

[Mike Taylor]

In Chicago, the CTA would charge you a penny on New Years Eve to use the buses and trains. At the L stations, they'd generally just wave you through to get on the trains, so you didn't even have to pay THAT. The downside was the bus drivers and train staff had to deal with a lot of drunken assholes.

[Pagan]

coughcough Mythbusters did prove that if you were to shoot the gun exactly straight up that the bullets would be almost harmless coming down because of how they fall... the said... no one fires a gun exactly straight up and you aren't dealing with falling bullets but rather still active projectiles.

With all due respect to "Mythbusters", tell that to the kid that was killed a couple of years ago because of someone doing this exact same thing.