How old is too old to party?

[Anonymous]

I know people from my husbands side of the family who still party at weddings and other gatherings. They’re in the 50s and 60s and have professional careers and live UC/UMC lives.

They often party with the twenty and thirty somethings. I can’t decide if I am impressed or confused.

[Anonymous]

Never. The party never stops. Now let’s party like it’s 1999.

[Anonymous]

Is that a euphemism for something? Are you ever to old to hang out and laugh and enjoy people’s company?

[Anonymous]

The road goes on forever and the party never ends.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is that a euphemism for something? Are you ever to old to hang out and laugh and enjoy people’s company?

Never. Enjoy celebrate life because it is very SHORT!

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by "party"?

[Anonymous]

Never?

Or do you mean getting very drunk or other behaviors that are inappropriate at any age?

I don't get why people think some things are allowed at X age, and others are not. Just act like a decent human being all the time.

[Anonymous]

I have noticed an uptick in 'partying' behavior when people's kids are in PK/Elementary. It's like they need release after the baby/toddler stage.

Then as shit gets real when their kids are in high school and college the partying levels off except for the alcoholics and newly divorced.

[Anonymous]

Is party a euphemism for drinking heavily? Or doing drugs?

After your early twenties, you'd hope that people would have learned some restraint to not do those things excessively but that obviously doesn't always happen.

[Anonymous]

It's interesting how the idea that you can get "too old to party" has gained so much traction in such a short period of our history.

You only have to go back about 40 years to get to a period where every social gathering served martinis by the pitcher. Then keep going back and you have an unbroken timeline of grown adults getting soused pretty much constantly.

I mean, was the father of our country "too old to party?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting how the idea that you can get "too old to party" has gained so much traction in such a short period of our history.

You only have to go back about 40 years to get to a period where every social gathering served martinis by the pitcher. Then keep going back and you have an unbroken timeline of grown adults getting soused pretty much constantly.

I mean, was the father of our country "too old to party?"

Didn't they live till 60

[Anonymous]

I think getting sh!t-faced drunk after age 30 is tacky. I mean, even after 25 is really pushing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know people from my husbands side of the family who still party at weddings and other gatherings. They’re in the 50s and 60s and have professional careers and live UC/UMC lives.

They often party with the twenty and thirty somethings. I can’t decide if I am impressed or confused.

What does "party"mean? Having a drink or three and dancing and having a good time with friends and family? Or does it mean getting wasted?

[Anonymous]

I'm 52 and my husband is 62. We have VERY active social lives. We drink and party and have a blast every single weekend. I stopped maturing at 25. I am also a lawyer and executive. My husband is a professor at an ivy league school.

[Anonymous]

I know someone fifty years old who just died from partying in Miami.