Oh No: New Boyfriend’s Mates Are The '$400 New Years Drinks Package' Type

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A local girl’s hopes for a relatively chill and fiscal New Years have been quashed today, after releasing her new boyfriend’s mates are a bunch of idiots, The Advocate can confirm.

After meeting 29-year-old Ethan Reid through a dating app back in August, local paralegal Olivia Bennett has found herself with a proper full-on boyfriend, one that assumes she’ll spend New Years with him whatever the costs.

And despite so far being a smart, funny and generally good human, Olivia’s discovered Ethan has one major flaw, and that is his close mates are the type of losers who outsource their New Years celebrations to some average venue that charges $400 for bottomless Peroni's, and maybe a cold Arancini ball if you get there before 8pm.

Usually the type of gal who’s happier to sit around a chill share house party, or extend her family Christmas on the Sunny Coast and go camping with her school mates, Olivia says she’s fuming that this year she might have to try being a “Drinks Package” type.

After getting sent a link to the event from her daft boyfriend, who spun it over with the message “This is the one they’re keen on, there’s an early bird discount”, Liv cradled her head in her hands and internally screamed.

“God I can’t think of anything worse than being trapped in a room with 100 other idiots who don’t know each other, sipping warm beers and running the gauntlet on some prawn skewers that have been sitting in the commercial fridge since Christmas eve,” Liv lamented.

“It’s not even at a good venue, and it’s at the Boathouse Bar & Kitchen. I had a wake there once.”

“Fancy paying $400 for a view of the Betoota Bridge, I’m not that surprised, half of his mates are real estate agents…”

More to come.