How to Celebrate New Year's Eve at a Bar

Celebrating New Year's Eve at a bar is good way to avoid all the work usually involved with this momentous evening. There's no messy cleanup to face the next day.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Songbooks
• Cologne
• Perfume

1. Learn the music and lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne" so that you can sing along when midnight comes.

2. Assign a designated driver, if required. Arrange for a taxi pickup if no one wants to be the driver or if you're alone.

3. Choose a bar - preferably one that is local and well known.

4. Befriend the bartender if you don't know him or her already.

5. Get there well enough in advance to get a seat or a table - but not too early, or you may be too obliterated to know that the millennium has come and gone.

6. Be friendly to your fellow patrons.

7. Arrange to have champagne or a nonalcoholic drink in hand when the clock starts ticking down to midnight.

8. Wish someone you don't know a happy new year.

9. Make sure those around you who have overimbibed have safe transportation home when the evening is over.

Tips & Warnings

• It is almost impossible to find a taxi on New Year's Eve, so arrange for one well in advance.
• Never drink and drive.

on 11/22/2005 Never leave your drink unattended.
Do not leave the bar or accept a ride from someone you do not know.