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Why the Times Square Olive Garden's $400 New Year's Eve Party Really Isn't So Terrible
Let’s mute the snobbery, at least until the holidays are over.
A few years ago, my aunt and cousins drove down from Toronto in wet, heavy, miserable snow to spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square. I couldn’t understand it.
They’d have to queue up in the middle of the afternoon! They’d have to see Ryan Seacrest’s pinched face and disarming enthusiasm projected on a massive billboard! They’d be surrounded by people who might literally be crapping their pants with excitement, or because it was too crowded to weave their way to a bathroom through the throngs of revelers freezing their drunken butts off.