Let’s stop a minute and talk about something important. Yes, smart ass more important than our nation’s financial crisis.

I’m talking hangouts. And the dire fact that I don’t and never have had one. But if I look at television for a guideline to my life, which you’re totally suppose too, it tells me two important things – 1) I should have a circle of friends consisting of no more than six, including myself. 2) We should have a hangout joint we meet up at on an almost daily basis. Where we update each about our lives( because their so exciting daily updates with close friends is a must and is never boring or have lulls in conversation), drink cheap beer and eat bar food all the while looking model like.

The hangout should be centrally located in my current city. It should have “character” and never be crowded, but never go out of business and have enough extra profit to renovate every season(television season that is). And we should have our table that we always sit at and is ALWAYS free when we walk in. There is a killer jukebox in the corner that is always playing the latest popular songs softly in the background. The staff knows us by name and drops our drinks at the table mere seconds after we sit that we are never seen paying for.

Now if I was in high school or college this hangout should be a hipster-ques coffee shop near my campus. But I’m not, so I digress.

Never in my 25 years have I known anyone to actually have a “hangout”. Even in High School. My hometown is small and kinda lame. We have a sad little establishment that likes to call themselves a coffee shop, but the fact that they don’t know the difference between actually espresso and coffee that’s espresso flavored or that lactose free milk is NOT soy milk makes me argue otherwise.

Now you may think this post is mocking above mentioned hangouts, but on the contrary my lovely readers, on the contrary. I in fact, WANT this hangout. But I run into a few problems that you can perhaps help we with:

1) I live in La. Which means that the very few places in this city I’d  actually hang out on a regular basis are, probably never not crowded, I’d have to drive through traffic to get there and then pay for parking only to go and be over charged for drinks/food. Does that sound like weekly fun you’d like to have?

2) My life on average is lame. I ain’t got shit to update.

3) I honestly don’t know if I have five people that would want to meet up with me at least weekly to shoot the shit.

4) I’m a hermit. I like just chilling in my apartment in my pj’s alone most the time.

5) I fucking hate beer.

So, do I just give up on this dream of having an awesome hangout? Do I write a half hour comedy and live vicariously through my characters? Do I try to grow as a person, put on real clothes, make some friends that like me, and try a few places out?

Do you have a hangout? What is it like?

TELL ME!

xoxo – Cryslewis

P.S. I just realized my list for not having a hang out could also be construed as the list for why I don’t have a boyfriend. Sigh.