Mermaid said:Omigoodness, Sueshore! You have my sympathy. I only just narrowly escaped doing a Christmas party with the ENGINEERS. (one of them's okay, like the one I married, but a whole roomful of them??)
I also escaped the Christmas party w/the engineers. Bdarg is not going either - he said it's all he can do to be around this group 5 days a week. At other firms he has been lucky and there were a few engineers with people skills. His current firm sounds like a lost cause.
One year (and only once!) we went to the state association banquet 'cause his company had a table. I made the mistake of introducing myself and TALKING to these guys (I was one of 2 wives there)- and I think I scared them to death. They had looks of absolute terror on their faces. I don't think they had ever had to make polite dinner conversation before! The other wife is a friend, and after we had suffered through dinner and not near enough wine, we staged a phony page from the hospital (she's a doc) and got the heck out of there, with our husbands hot on our trail. The "emergency" turned out to be at the nearest bar, where we were busted by quite a few other engineers that ditched early as well!
That 4:30 race up opposite stairways to see could get to the bar and order first! She loved the airplanes! So did his Dad. Fits right in with his nursery theme. :clap_1: