21st birthday parties

Summary
Picture this. A collection of young adults and unfamiliar older adults in a social setting, all with varying levels of awkwardness, social presence, and awareness of each others existence gathered in an unfamiliar location celebrating a particular individuals coming of age with copious amounts of alcohol to accompany a biblical flood level amount of small talk and associated banter with a smattering amount of truth over a delectable selection of food prepared or selected by the host, who after a certain period announces his intention to conduct a speech, which in the inebriated state of the participants universally sounds fucking entertaining. This is followed by more banter, perhaps a cutting of a cake or something equally symbolic, and more drinking, during the course of which, some people will become friends or acquainted with somebody they previously did not know or knew only by association to some distant memory, and some will just go home with a big hangover and some will just go home or go to someone else's for the night.

WHAT YOU JUST PICTURED IS A 21st BIRTHDAY PARTY.