Birthday Party's

I'm not a big partier.... Wasn't in school, haven't been as an adult. Sure I'll go to a small bar/pub and hang out on occasion, sing some karaoke or whatever, but if the place is so packed I can't move or even hear myself speak, it most certainly isn't a place for me. I like my personal space to be... well personal and unencumbered.

Party contention number two: I've never been a birthday person. If someone is, that's great; I'm very happy for them... Happy Birthday! But to be a person, a 30 something person mind you, that expects you to attend their birthday party when you are nothing more than a passing acquaintance to said person, that gets belligerently angry because you do not attend is a little dramatic for my liking.
Look, I am a very outgoing personality but I need time to assess and assimilate the crowd I'm around before I truly become my true self. Call it initial shyness, call it social anxiety or whatever you wish; I am a mentally controlled individual that doesn't just hop in to a situation unprepared. I must feel comfortable and in control of my faculties before I ingratiate myself to others. If I don't feel comfortable, then I shut down. Some people reading this may remember a situation where that happened. It wasn't pleasant.

I guess what I'm saying (in long form) is: This is who I am. How can you be angry because I, a person you barely know, doesn't attend your silly little excuse to get hammered...err birthday party?

Bottom line, this is why we are only acquaintances and not friends. I appreciate the invitation but I am just not comfortable around you and your style. It doesn't fit me. If I was, you would know it and I'd probably be there. Enjoy your party and worry not that I didn't attend. I don't even matter in the grand scheme of things that is you. If that makes me the bad guy, then that is okay, but it is what it is... Not to mention my nerdiness in slipping assimilation in to this rant.

Resistance is Futile!