People with excess cash party hard

So, me and my wife (she´ll probably write about it on her blog as well...) went to a co-worker's/co-student's birthday party last Saturday. He has a special...style. Don't get me wrong 'cause he's really nice, but he's got a special taste in both music and money-spending.

His taste in music e.g. It isn't really retro, it's more like the original'n not the imitation. He loves 70's and 80's LP-records with really odd bands and quite terrible music if I may say so myself.

We left after a couple of hours since we were going to get up early the next morning, and the rest of the group went out to a bar after a while. I met him at work today and he was quite wasted.

The rest of the gang, a lot of people who also are my friends from school, as I said, went out to a bar...where they bought a champagne bottle each (and not a small one either) and poured champagne over each other while dancing on top of the tables. They weren't kicked out, as you'd normally be, since they were quite good customers. About 15 times 70 euros per bottle makes quite a lot of revenues for the bar. So no wonder they weren't kicked out.The birthday-boy spent about 150 euros that night he said, while a friend of his blew about 300. Another guy had to leave after a while 'cause he couldn't stand up straight. I heard it took about 4 hours for him to get home.

Some of these people have just finished studying or are about to finish sooner or later, and they have all landed highly demanding and VERY rewarding full-time jobs or summer-jobs, both in terms of future career possibilities and cash (not to be forgotten). They all work at places where you're expected to give it your best every day and where you're expected to work 14-16 hours a day, sometimes (usually) week-ends too. The job pays for your food, taxi-journeys to and from work and sometimes pays a cleaning company to clean your apartment and to do your laundry. These people are really smart, ambitious and sharp, and obviously live alone. Thus, they have cash like grass, and they keep getting more. A stupid way to spend it anyway, they could buy me an iPod for 150 euros instead of wasting it on liquor.

I guess the saying's right then: If you work hard you play hard!