If you have a party be prepared for:
1) No one will stay after to help you clean up except JediTeddy, Mr. Fett, and Cutest Sandgirl.
2) If you have it in Utica, you should have had it in Lansing. If you have it in Lansing, you should have had it....
3) Which ever weekend you choose, twenty people will post that a different day would be preferable. Ten of those people weren't going to show up anyway.
4) If you have a raffle, somebody's child will cry like you just shot their dog because they won a Jar Jar Binks figure instead of the Yoda toy they wanted. The parents will glare at you for traumatizing their little angel. How dare you give away stuff?
5) If you ask for a donation/admission of $5.00 to defray costs, no matter how many times you post that fact, people will be taken by surprise. If you don't charge at the door, some RPFers will try to rabbit when you finally do try to collect.
6) If you don't serve food, people will complain. If you do serve food and charge for it, people will leave and hit nearby fast food. If you serve food or drinks for free, some fat swarthy dude will stand by the bar and chug a free can of pop while complaining that last year's food was better.
7) Last year's party was always better.
8) The more work YOU do, the more YOU pay for, the less of themselves people will have invested in the party and the less they'll appreciate that there is a party at all.
Grrrrrrrrr. :angry Grrrrrrr. You kids don't know how good you've got it, what with your Licensed props and your loud rock and roll music! Cut your ponytail off hippy, put down that electric twanger...and get a job!
Let somebody else put the party together for you. Leave early and skate the bill. Go with the people you liked to Dave and Busters' and get drunk.
That's my advice.
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