That's the best argument you've got?
Learned something last night. Karaoke DJ's are not generally amused when someone says, "You've gotta make me next. I'm so drunk I might not even be able to stand up when my turn comes!" (I know this, because I was the DJ.) It's even less amusing when it's someone that I used to consider a pretty good friend, whose increasingly self-centered life-style is destroying her second marriage. The whole place was full of drunk people...I was one of the maybe five sober people in the whole place. None of them were hounding me to make them next before they passed out...when they got to the point where they felt like they were falling-down drunk, they just stopped asking for songs.
And what bugs me even more about it is the knowledge that she made that demand fully expecting me to just roll over and play dead. She got rather heated when I told her no. I'm not sure, but I think she realized just how close I was to handing her the list and saying, "You run the fruiting machine, I'm doing your husband a favor by taking a turn at it so he can really enjoy the evening for a change but I'm not gonna put up with this strudel." And part of me kinda wishes I had. I'm glad I didn't, because it would have made the rest of the night really awkward for a lot of people and I'm the sort that doesn't want to screw up the party for everyone else because one person is being a pain.
But, yeah...last night kinda drew the line for me. I have stayed neutral about her marriage (I know her husband, too, and have become pretty good friends with him in his own right), but I was one of the ones that had kind of been hoping they could smooth things out and get back together. I can see, now, that's not likely to ever happen, because she's so caught up in what she wants that she can't see anyone else's side of things. And I know it's not just the alcohol, because she's like that when she's sober...she's just more diplomatic about how she tries to get her way.
Buckle up, kids...it's gonna be a rough road ahead. Wish this was the first time I'd been down this path, but I've had married friends part ways before. I see a lot of ugly situations on the horizon...