A Bug's Life

We started taking twice the amount of beer we were planning to drink, and we still found that people had drunk all the beer we'd brought after an hour or two. With some parties I'm now resorting to taking extra stocks of beer and leaving them in the car so that we can rescue them halfway through the evening.

Worse, incidentally, than bringing wine and drinking beer, as far as I'm concerned, is bringing totally shite beer and then drinking the real ale, and then cheerfully saying 'oh, there's a can of John Smith's' to the people looking around for the gallon of beer they brought through the door 25 minutes earlier. Honestly, the only conclusion I can reach is that I have friends who believe that the purpose of parties is to drink at other people's expense. Whine, winge.