50 year old party

It was my second day at my new pad and my house mate Milly was kind enough to invite me to a party. She works at a school and it was one of the teachers fiftieth birthday bash. I had a feeling this was going to be absolutely horrible so I had to go ... to spice up the blog a bit. I've been pretty happy recently and I'm sure that make for rather dull reading.

Unfortunately this party was probably one of the most rocking I have ever been too, it was in a music venue/pub and the blues, jazz band was absolutely rocking. It was far more rocking than my twenty first. We drank cheap beer and rocked late into the night. Me and Milly where invited back to the guys house with a group of others, this is where things got interesting.

I'm twenty nine (I had written twenty eight first then had to work it out and correct myself) Milly was 31 and then there was around 20 odd years gap between us and the other guests. On arrival a couple of the women returned to being normal fifty year old women and started cooking snacks. The rest of the group did something that I really wasn't expecting ...

They continued drinking and started to take/smoke copious amounts of drugs, I felt relieved that the spirit of youth and rebellion still burned on regardless of age. I found a lot of them very interesting so I pretty much stopped talking and went into information gathering mode. One women particular stands out in my mind as she was telling me about what a nightmare it was to have teenage children, this sounds pretty normal especially as she runs a department at her school. She was holding a glass of red wine and a joint why she told me. She even mentioned that she would have killed her kids if they did anything like what she was doing now.

I had a lot of fun and absorbed many anecdotes, but I left with the taste of hypocrisy in my month. What makes it ok for you to do things that you would punish your children for? As stupid as Drug prohibition is I can understand why some people buy all the propaganda they are feed about it and pass it on to their children. But these people .. they knew better .. they knew the truth ... they knew that most drugs users go out take drugs then go back to work the next day having had a really good time and talked nonsense like you where saving the world for a while. Why did they hold there children to a different standard to themselves?

I'll guess I''ll know the answer when I have kids, but I really deplore hypocrisy and will try my best to avoid it. Or am I just being like the pre pubescent child that swears he will never have a girl friend.