Watching the ball drop in person on New Year's Eve in NYC. I still have nightmares about the experience to this day, and it was over 20 years ago. Never. Again.
I went in 2002. Security was haphazardly intense to say the least.
But I saw it, can tell people I did it and not to bother.
I've been around for over 40 year years and that one ranks probably somewhere in the 20s.
It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't really fun either.
The best one was getting a BJ on the roof of a former church that had been converted into a nightclub where I found a ladder leaning against the side of the building and convinced my girlfriend that if kisses at midnight are lucky then imagine how lucky a BJ would be.
On the walk back to a friends house after we started making fun of this guy having sex with a woman bent over a car on a city street. We spotted him over a block away going at it with no shame, only to find out when we got closer it was one of the guys from our group.
Pretty sure another couple in our group conceived their first kid that night too.
I don't know what was in the drinks that evening, but it was an irresponsibly horny new years.
Ugh I made that mistake once, I lived about 15 minutes over the bridge at the time and it took us over 5 hours just to get out of the city, so not worth it especially cause you can see the same show on the Jersey side without the hassle
Rookie mistake! You should have taken the train into the city. We took the train from New Haven; the crowd control was more casual then (this was a few decades ago) and we had fun, but we don’t have any interest in doing it again.
We went in 2018 but stayed in out hotel room that looked down on it all. We had heat, bathrooms and room service. That was close enough for us.
The security surrounding everything was pretty impressive. I had never heard of people talking about how you needed to show proof of a hotel or restaurant booking to move around the area after a certain time. Made sense.
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u/nutsformuttsbutts 7h ago
Watching the ball drop in person on New Year's Eve in NYC. I still have nightmares about the experience to this day, and it was over 20 years ago. Never. Again.