My husband wants to go to Times Sq on NYE. How do I get out of it?

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I'VE NEVER wanted to go there. I didn't understand it as a child. I don't understand it now.

I hate crowds and I suffer from panic attacks. He wanted to go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade but I was able to "bargain" with him by going to see the balloons being blown up on CPW.

He has his heart set on it. I don't mind if he goes alone on something I don't want to do but I want to celebrate the New Year with him.

[Chigworthy]

But my wife a plane ticket. She inexplicably thinks it looks like fun, too.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Chig,

Let's hook our spouses and then you and I could go to a crowded yet less cold bar. LOL.

[Melk]

Is this really a problem?

[TripleSkeet]

Is this really a problem?

Sounds like it to me. It looked like fun when I was 15, now you couldnt pay me to go. Yea lets sit outside in the freezing cold shoulder to shoulder with thousands of strangers. Trying to get a drink or take a piss must be a blast.

[Judge Smails]

I've never been myself but I had a friend who went back in college - years ago. The horror stories he told me quickly made me drop any ideas of going myself. This, mind you, was all pre-September 11. I can only imagine that things have gotten worse with NYPD security measures. I did try to go to the last Giants Superbowl parade and gave up and went home and watched it on tv when I realized I couldn't get within two blocks of the parade route because the police had closed all the side streets for some reason. The point being is that you've got to get there early. I was stupid thinking I could show up an hour before the parade started.

What my friend told me about New Years: First you've got to get there around 3-5 pm if you want to be anywhere near the ball. I hope you enjoy standing around with absolutely nothing to do for 9 hours. They literally herd you into pens with baricades all around. Once your pen is full they close it off and move to the next one. Eventually they'll close 42nd street and everyone has to feed into Times Square via 43rd. Once that's full they close off 43rd and you have to go to 44th, etc. etc.

Once in the pen you have very little freedom of movement. If you do manage to get out they will not let you back in. You'll have to head north to whatever street they're filling up from at that point. They don't care that the rest of your party may still be in the pen. Once you're out, you're out.

There are no Port-O-Potties. No public restrooms. My friend asked a cop where they could piss and the cop actually told him to get all his friends to stand around him shoulder to shoulder to create a wall while he pissed into the sewer. Alot of the stores and restaurants actually close or board up their windows against the crush of humanity. Plus even if you made it into a deli, or something, there's no guarantee you'll be allowed back into your pen.

On top of all of this fun you also have to keep an eye on the weather forecast. The year my friend went was cold and rainy which obviously made it worse and proved him to be retarded for actually going.

[sailor]

i went once, weather was nice, had a lot of fun. next year it was below zero and the idea of going never came up again. it wasn't that bad, but i think it's gotten a lot bigger in the past 20 years or so. we were able to go down like 7-8 o'clock and weren't too far back. who can't hold their piss for a few hours? i don't get the people camping out a day or more ahead of time.

that said, if you have panic attacks due to crowds, how is this even an issue? your husband is aware of this, right?

[Melk]

Sounds like it to me.
Okay. If it is a problem. I have a solution. Get too tired to go. Pre-brew a little before you are scheduled to go and pass out. If he tried to wake you, get up, go to the bathroom, shove a digit down your throat and induce vomiting. Then turn on the whole "Oh, I'm sorry honey. I don't think I can make it to Times Square."

Next time, just say no. I wouldn't force someone to ride a roller coaster if they were easy to get motion sickness. Likewise, I wouldn't try to force someone I care about to go to a crowded place when they respond poorly to crowds.

I still have no idea what a panic attack is. I can appreciate panic triggered by a very real or very obvious problem but I don't know how someone spontaneously panics.

[Justice4all]

Sounds like it to me. It looked like fun when I was 15, now you couldnt pay me to go. Yea lets sit outside in the freezing cold shoulder to shoulder with thousands of strangers. Trying to get a drink or take a piss must be a blast.

And most of the time if you want a good seat/place to stand you have to show up HOURS before and not move from your spot. I have heard horror stories about people pissing or puking right where they stood. Never left their place.

yea...sounds like alot of fun.:thumbdown:

[Justice4all]

that said, if you have panic attacks due to crowds, how is this even an issue? your husband is aware of this, right?

Don't be silly...this is her husband...of COURSE he's aware of this. (I would think)

[CountryBob]

Relationships are all about give and take. Looks like this means alot to him - maybe you should give in and make this New Years the best ever for your Hub. :huh:

[Willmore]

I'VE NEVER wanted to go there. I didn't understand it as a child. I don't understand it now.

I hate crowds and I suffer from panic attacks. He wanted to go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade but I was able to "bargain" with him by going to see the balloons being blown up on CPW.

He has his heart set on it. I don't mind if he goes alone on something I don't want to do but I want to celebrate the New Year with him.

You really shouldn't've married a foreigner. In fact, it's common sense to stay within the immediate family - they usually have similar sensibilities to you. (And that inbreeding thing always seemed like wonky science to me, Adam and Eve had to fuck, so did their kids)

[OGC]

Relationships are all about give and take. Looks like this means alot to him - maybe you should give in and make this New Years the best ever for your Hub. :huh:

You are absolutely right about relationships being all about give and take but I have to say that this time it is Alice's husband should be the one giving. He should know that this is a big deal for her. I would never ask my wife to do anything that causes her to have panic attacks.

[Willmore]

You are absolutely right about relationships being all about give and take but I have to say that this time it is Alice's husband should be the one giving. He should know that this is a big deal for her. I would never ask my wife to do anything that causes her to have panic attacks.

Wife gives, husband takes. It's a simple formula that's worked for the last 8000 years, no need to change it. So Alice, strap one on, and give your husband all he can take in that tukhus of his.

[Jujubees2]

Alice just tell your hubby that it's all a ruse. There is no ball at Times Square. It's just a TV production.

[Willmore]

Alice just tell your hubby that it's all a ruse. There is no ball at Times Square. It's just a TV production.

Or just tell him about the after-drop tradition of beating up on all the Ecuadorans in the crowd.

[Brad_Rush]

Or just tell him about the after-drop tradition of beating up on all the Ecuadorans in the crowd.

:laugh:

[midwestjeff]

Murder/suicide.

[Justice4all]

Or just tell him about the after-drop tradition of beating up on all the Ecuadorans in the crowd.

:clap: :laugh: :lol:
YOU sir...go to the top for that one!
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gn9xUexhWuw/0.jpg

[PapaBear]

You might want to tell him Snookie is going to be there. That should keep him away.

[Dell]

my daughter and her friends are going, but they decided to not camp out for the drop...

they all bought tickets at one of the Manhattan bars that let them step outside for the drop...

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I brought up going to Times Square the other day and he said it was okay if we didn't go. He doesn't want me to be unhappy.

We had hoped to go to Ecuador for Christmas this year. I really wanted to witness “años viejos":

Ecuador has a unique way of celebrating New Year’s Eve. They call it “años viejos"("old years"). On this day, stuffed dummies representing bad things that happened during the year are paraded on the streets before they are finally burnt. The burnt dummy personalities characterize the “old year”. Then men and women act as widows of these “old year” dummies and go home to home asking for money. It is believed that after the dummies are kicked and burnt, bad year has gone by and New Year is a happy year.


It doesn't sound all that great but years ago, guys decided they didn't want their sisters, girlfriends, wives asking for money because it was dangerous. The guys actually go all out and dress up like women. I've seen video of it. It's pretty funny. Tradition or just an excuse to dress up like women? You decide.

[sailor]

I brought up going to Times Square the other day and he said it was okay if we didn't go. He doesn't want me to be unhappy.

We had hoped to go to Ecuador for Christmas this year. I really wanted to witness “años viejos":

Ecuador has a unique way of celebrating New Year’s Eve. They call it “años viejos"("old years"). On this day, stuffed dummies representing bad things that happened during the year are paraded on the streets before they are finally burnt. The burnt dummy personalities characterize the “old year”. Then men and women act as widows of these “old year” dummies and go home to home asking for money. It is believed that after the dummies are kicked and burnt, bad year has gone by and New Year is a happy year.


It doesn't sound all that great but years ago, guys decided they didn't want their sisters, girlfriends, wives asking for money because it was dangerous. The guys actually go all out and dress up like women. I've seen video of it. It's pretty funny. Tradition or just an excuse to dress up like women? You decide.

i bet he never wanted to go there. he didn't understand it as a child. he does't understand it now.

[Melk]

i bet he never wanted to go there. he didn't understand it as a child. he does't understand it now.
Alice shouldn't go. She hates crowds and might have a panic attack.

[boobieman]

Just show a picture of last years...can't stand in the street...have to enter the area at one point and then go all the way uptown to exit...no bathroom and the worst part..NO DRINKING...

Or do what i do...be drunk by 3:00 in the afternoon

Have fun..SSSEYAYYAAAAA

[Contra]

I went the last it was fun, december 31 2000. We brought in a nice amount of liquor in those bigger snapple bottles that they used to sell in a backpack, it was great! Got pretty toasted, fell down in front of a cop asking "which way to the ball" (in my defense out had snowed a couple days earlier and I stepped in a snow pile).

We met some cool people, I pissed in an empty because you couldn't get to anyplace to go, but I had a great time.

I wouldn't go now unless I had a hotel room right there, or I had one of those tickets at one of the bars. Of course they dont let you bring backpacks in anymore

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

Times Square on NYE is for tourists and idiots. You can't drink there and you have to be in the corral hours a head of time and you can't leave to pee. I don't see the excitement of watching it on TV either. By that point I'm generally puking from drinking little beers and lighting off m80s in my yard.