I don't get it

weelass24

Standing in Times Square.  Why?  Let's list the reasons it sucks, shall we?

1. You have to get there at 4pm to get in a pen.
2. Yes, a pen.  Like a corral.  You can't get out.  Even to pee.
3. No alcohol, no backpacks and again, no peeing.
4. This year is 35*.  Last year? Just above 0*. Enough said.
5. After it is over?  You are still in Times Square and you are competing with 1 million others for a cab.

Fvck that.  I have never gone and never will.

hippotree

This is one of the things that is on my list of things I never care to do.

MrsS008

Yeah, no fricken thank you.

Lock me in and don't let me pee? I hope you didn't wear nice shoes, cause I'm gonna pee on them.

weelass24

There were all these jackasses on the news today saying "It's a once in a lifetime thing!"

Really?  Last time I checked this happened EVERY DECEMBER 31st! 

iowandfw

But for us (ok, I can only speak for me) who are from small "no where" towns..just WATCHING it on TV is freakin' amazing. I remember it being one of my first memories, and some of my favorite- from when my Mom was still around and well, I would cause we watched it every year...and to be apart of the tradition that we watched....(yeah, I know, it sounds stupid)

. Would I do itn ow (at this current age?- no)...would I have done it prebaby- HECK YA...

but for me, nostalgia....

iowandfw

However, after reading this post..maybe not. I didn't know the "rules"...

hmm. food for fodder..

weelass24

Awwwwww,  Iowa!  That's sweet.  As far as I am concerned TS is the pit of Hades.    Well, maybe not as much now, since they closed Bway and put out lounge chairs in the summer.  But still.

mrs_kelly1014

That sounds like pure torture.

iowandfw

weelass24:

Awwwwww,  Iowa!  That's sweet.  As far as I am concerned TS is the pit of Hades.    Well, maybe not as much now, since they closed Bway and put out lounge chairs in the summer.  But still.

alright- I have not thought those thoughts in a LONG time. 

I better step away before I start crying...I miss my Mom. wow- memories

Happy 2010! 

BabyBlank

It is one of the things I would like to experience...and, yet, I know I would *** about it the entire time I was there.

hippotree

I just saw a picture of TS on TV and it looks my own personal version of hell.

pinkflipflops44

I don't know what is worse --- no alcohol or no peeing..

Melaneigh1

Show me a penthouse over looking Times Square, with a cozy fire, and stocked with alcohol, and we'll talk.

Lyssapee

This year you get to party with snooki and the cast of jersey shore though.

No really, I totally agree with you, I never had a desire to do it, and hope I never have to.

MrsBalletStar05

I can't believe that they'd make that many people go without peeing for 8 hours.  There must be a loophole somehow. 

Jenandtonica

One word: diapers.