girls night out
Last night I went to a girls night at Scotty's Brewhouse with some girls I know from high school. Kinda silly, I know. This came about from a Facebook wall post I saw asking if any girls from the Lawrence North class of '94 that still live in/near Indy would like to get together for a girls night to catch up. I jokingly replied asking if I could be an honorary girl and from the class of '94 since I am neither.
With an affirmative reply, I figured I'd at least show up to say hi and just politely excuse myself if I detected my Y chromosome was getting in the way of their fun. A total of 8 people showed up including me. Of the 7 other girls that showed up, none were super close friends that I hung out with a lot back in school but 4 I remembered well, 1 I remembered peripherally, and the other 2 I don't think I really knew before. In my case, I hadn't seen any of them for 17 years. Some had seen each other more recently but that was hardly universal.
As it turned out, I don't think I ended up inhibiting the dialog in any way, and I probably heard stuff that no man was ever supposed to hear. ;) It was sort of no holds barred on subject matter regardless of the one rooster in the hen house. For the most part, it was a lot of reminiscing about old times and catching up on what's been going on since. Most of that is pretty gender neutral. Of course the talk about such things as pregnancies and breast feeding revealed me to not be plumbed correctly to muster so much as a "me too."
The whole night ended up being a lot of fun. I didn't really feel all that out of place. In fact, it was fun periodically noting that I should have been. I ended up staying the whole time--about 3 1/2 hours over food and drinks. There were a few somber moments, but it was mostly laughter and boisterous obnoxiousness. I'm glad I had the opportunity to attend.
With an affirmative reply, I figured I'd at least show up to say hi and just politely excuse myself if I detected my Y chromosome was getting in the way of their fun. A total of 8 people showed up including me. Of the 7 other girls that showed up, none were super close friends that I hung out with a lot back in school but 4 I remembered well, 1 I remembered peripherally, and the other 2 I don't think I really knew before. In my case, I hadn't seen any of them for 17 years. Some had seen each other more recently but that was hardly universal.
As it turned out, I don't think I ended up inhibiting the dialog in any way, and I probably heard stuff that no man was ever supposed to hear. ;) It was sort of no holds barred on subject matter regardless of the one rooster in the hen house. For the most part, it was a lot of reminiscing about old times and catching up on what's been going on since. Most of that is pretty gender neutral. Of course the talk about such things as pregnancies and breast feeding revealed me to not be plumbed correctly to muster so much as a "me too."
The whole night ended up being a lot of fun. I didn't really feel all that out of place. In fact, it was fun periodically noting that I should have been. I ended up staying the whole time--about 3 1/2 hours over food and drinks. There were a few somber moments, but it was mostly laughter and boisterous obnoxiousness. I'm glad I had the opportunity to attend.