At social gatherings, there are 2 types of people ...
1. The people who create the buzz.
2. The people who hope that there will be a buzz, created by other people, otherwise they will get bored.
Group 1 will be there first, to "get the party started". Group 1 are never bored. If there's no buzz, then Group 1 will make it buzzy.
Group 2 will typically aim to arrive half an hour late, to "let things get going a bit" before they get there. If there is no buzz, Group 2 get bored, because they cannot create any buzz of their own.
JAYNE,
This is why alchohol was invented, it gets rid of inhibitions, shyness etc,
If group one and two arrived at the same time and all had a few drinks the whole place would be buzzing.
Actually, today was quite funny. New construction site, building chalets. Want me to kit them out, floor to ceiling, with a budget of just 3000 euros per chalet. I gently and patiently spent nearly two hours explaining how that would not be possible !!