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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2791883" data-attributes="member: 1057">Yes.The holidays are a weird time.  They're often a happy time, but for many people they're a sad time, due to circumstances, or memories.  Highest rate of suicides, I believe I remember hearing, occur arround this time.  So, you get a bunch of people together, some of whom may not be happy with their jobs, or their coworkers, or any number of things, and you mix in the world's greatest truth serum, alcohol (perhaps loosener-of-the-tongue is a better term, or inhibition-reducer), and suddenly, "This guy . . . this is the guy!" {hic}Our holiday office party is today.  I'm not expecting that sort of thing, because it's actually at our office, as opposed to a restaurant or other location, but who knows?  There will be booze.I think it's probably pretty common.  Sometimes these parties are just the absolute right mix of personal tension, occupational tension, and a feeling of liberation, and you can get all kinds of reactions.So, cheers!  Have fun, and behave as you would want to behave, and perhaps, also, as you would want to be remembered as having behaved sometime around, oh, January 3, when the office reconvenes in a more "professional" setting and the gossip begins to churn.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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