Five Ways To Alienate Your Friends

April 27, 2016 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

Over the last couple of weeks, I've had some interactions with friends that I think were less than appreciated. I mean, I wouldn't appreciate them. In most circumstances I'm either not sure what I was thinking or I just wasn't thinking, period. Or I was drunk. Either way, I decided I should share these incidents so readers can avoid repeating my prat falls.

The first happened at dinner with my friend. We had finished eating when the waitress came over and asked if she could get us anything else. Maybe it was the pizza, maybe it was the rum and diet, but I said, "Sure, could I get coke?"

Dear Facebook User, Do You Know You Are a Cliche?

January 05, 2016 by Cazey Williams in Life In Your 20's, Humor, life lessons, Cazey's Column

People post some weird self-disclosures on Facebook. Last week I found out my neighbor, who has only been married a year, is getting a divorce because she cheated on her husband with his best friend. I’m actually fairly confident her husband posted the status, but my, it was juicy. I screenshotted that and sent it to my besties.

Consequently, today I saw the same stock post I see about every other week on my newsfeed. I’ve pasted it below with my commentary because I don’t know how else to ask you to read it. I tried to provide a chaser.

(Epic) Brunch Review: Boqueria

Boqueria

October 25, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Richmond Brunch Review

This past weekend I was in DC in case you didn’t see from my Instagram feed, which you should all be following. My host, Justin, who’s written for ATOB before, proposed we go apple picking because #fall, and I suggested we brunch beforehand because I had never done a DC brunch. He immediately said he’d make reservations, which struck me as funny since he’s type B.

Me: “What do you mean, reservations? Where are we trying to go?”

A Snapchat War

April 09, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, Social Media

Yesterday I discussed Snapchat's latest update and how Snapchat has ignited friendship wars in the past. Everyone wants to be their best friend's top Snapchat user - or maybe that's just me. But relationships have ended over this sort of thing.

Thankfully, I'm single, so that's never happened to me. And Snapchat is just an inane app for sending selfies, so why do I care who my friends' top Snappers are - as long as I'm in the top spot? That's right, folks: Ever since discovering Snapchat in January 2013, I have managed to maintain a monopoly over many of my friend's top spot. It wasn't hard; all I had to do was Snapchat pictures whenever I bought iced coffee, battled through grad school projects late at night, or heard a great song on the radio. I don't worry about my friends' top spot because I know I have dominion.

Snapchat Best Friends, or the New MySpace Top 8

April 08, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, Social Media

Assuming your phone automatically updates your apps, millennial friendship dynamics shifted on Monday while you were Facebooking. That is, Snapchat released a new version - one which allows users to identify their mutual besties, six degrees of separation, and who is the Judas of your best friends (who you snap all the time and they don't reciprocate).

In case you don't use Snapchat, it's an app that allows friends to send self-deleting photos and messages to one another. Snapchat used to be just in good fun (and maybe sexting) before they allowed friends to see who their friends' top Snappers were. You could click on a person's name and see the top three people who they snapped with.

No big deal, right?

Things That Happened at the Masquerade

February 09, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, Sara's Column

A couple weekends ago, Sara and I attended a masquerade ball. I sit on the exec board for the organization that hosted the ball, so my favorite game of the night was having everyone guess how much the ball cost. Since our tickets were free, we decided to go all out on our masks. Unfortunately, the first couples' set we chose sold out, but we received a discount for our next choice. We chose - I should be real here; I chose - a metal filigree mask that was hot as Hades. Truly, my only wish for the evening was to get a killer profile pic. However, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Leading up to the ball, I asked my friends where they were getting their masks. The most common response was, "Oh, are people wearing masks? I wasn't going to."

Me: (I guess I'll leave my $22 mask at home. Uh, no.) "You should wear a mask; I hear everyone else is."

Five More Facebook Friends Who I Don't Know

February 05, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, Social Media

Previously I wrote about five friends I have on Facebook who I don't really know. In compiling that list, I realized there are more than five, so here are five more.

Ace: He is a recent friend, and he added me. He’s either the cousin or brother of my middle school crush’s best friend. I’m not sure why I accepted, but he seems harmless and aforementioned middle school’s crush best friend is in his profile picture. He now sits on my list of suggested friends to chat, which won’t be happening.

Dwayne: In high school my best friend and I went shopping at Macy’s because I needed a suit. Our salesman was only, you know, a decade older, so why not hit on my friend and tell us your pot stories and how well-connected your family is (meanwhile, you’re working in Macy’s…)? Maybe you’ll get me to buy the suit. Young and impressionable, my friend and I became Facebook friends with Dwayne. I think the add happened while we were standing together in the men’s section of Macy’s. He never did hook us up with pot.