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7 Tips for Hanging Out at a 24 Hour Restaurants with Your Friends After Midnight
Do's/Don'ts 
Tags: restaurants, friends, teenagers, chillin', tips
You know who you are: the kids (some of you over 30) who hit up the corner booth in those 24 hour restaurants after the bars close. Here are some tips for making those evenings fun, rather than just another annoying waste of three or four hours with your wasted buds.
| 1. | Sit in the corner booth. Make sure that you get a round booth big enough for the 5 or 6 of you. Better still if it's a curved booth. That way, when we another 3 or 4 people show up you can just squeeze on in. |
| 2. | Make sure *you* sit on the end. People in the middle often get trapped for long periods of time and find themselves crawling under the table between people's knees in order to get out and get to the bathroom. |
| 3. | Don't a) stack half & half creamers in a tower, b) play table hockey with the little packets of jam, or c) flip the butter pats up onto the ceiling to see if they stick. Unless you're planning to leave immediately, the mess you'll cause (and then have to live with) isn't worth it. |
| 4. | Tip really, really, really well. Like: at least 30%. Because at least two of your buddies are going to stiff the server and you know you'll be back again. Make sure you make it financially worthwhile to put up with your group. |
| 5. | Introduce a new topic of conversation. Good after-hours conversations often center around sudden lotto wins and who has a hot butt. See if you can lift the conversation to another level by dropping in a lyrical reference to 1970's rock&roll. |
| 6. | Consider your friends off-limits. Like guys or chicks you meet in jail, the people you hang out with after hours are not going to be the people you want to take home. Many a romance has seen its beginning in the corner booth at Denny's and its end in the back alley behind the dumpster. Don't go there. |
| 7. | Finally--honestly -- go home at some point. After the food is gone you'll reach the point of diminishing returns. Go. Wave goodbye to your friends. Get some sleep. |
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