isn't it amazing how stupid the conversations are. I have been to many a party since I quit drinking which was many years ago. I found it so boring. I could talk and socialize in the beginning and then as the booze flowed I would always loose contact with whomever I had found to talk to as they turned from an intelligent interesting person into a slobbering idiot who no longer made any sense.
Then I find myself isolated and isolating as I withdraw into a corner and amuse myself by people watching. I tried to keep up with opiates but its not the same thing and I still ended up in the corner staring.
Now its best to just not go.
Some I have to go to as they are the company xmas party and the company summer picnic. At least in the summer gathering there are lots of children that have to go home early and my wife and I fit into the exiting group.