Saturday Night Ride


Scenario: you're hosting a party. But not just any party. This is the one where you you invite a group of 10 or more pals to a multi-destination crawl on a Saturday night. A show. Dinner. Dance club. And a whole lot of drinking throughout. But if you're going to get pathetically smashed and no one is fool enough to be a designated driver, you've got a problem.

Enter the "Party Bus". This little baby is a dream come true. Stay with me, now. No meeting up at a common destination, no carpooling, no parking, a ride at your beck and call if compelled to bar hop from one sad hipster hang to another. Convenient. Apparently, whoever came up with the concept was inspired but indecisive, as these vehicles are also known as a party ride, limo bus, party van, or luxury bus. I won't go into a visual description because you've already seen them. Often times, they are luxury makes that have been turned into extra, extra long versions of themselves. It's the same model but on steroids. The eye-candy quotient of these vehicles is guaranteed to bump up your Saturday night fever into chills and cold sweats. This is the perfect time to have the driver play your digitally remastered "Bee-Gees: Their Greatest Hits". Skip "New York Mining Disaster 1941". Buzzkill.

I find the mechanics of hosting events stressful, which is probably why I don't do it. But after coming across this, I'm sold. Seriously. And that was even before I came across a more detailed description of what these babies are like on the inside. It is a self-contained Shambala. According to an online description...

"Party buses usually offer a wide range of amenities, including sound system, laser lights, dance floors, dance poles, luxury seating and more...knowing what you want to do will help decide whether to rent a party bus with or without a dance floor or pole."

I'm not in. I'm all in.