Worth it?

Tonight's episode of Project Meet People In Chicago met with...mixed results.

To wit, it included:

• Spending forty minutes looking for parking in a popular area of town on a Saturday night
• Giving up and paying $10-plus-tip for valet parking
• Attending a social meetup in a venue that turned out to be a little too noisy for conversation
• Giving up after an hour or so, and going outside with plans to head home, only to discover that the valet attendant was nowhere to be found
• Finding another, slightly less noisy (if still painfully trendy), place to have a drink while we waited for him to return
• Waiting twenty minutes for our drink orders
• Listening to the noise level in the second venue increase by 50% as the DJ slowly turned the music up and people started yelling to compensate
• Paying $12 apiece for cocktails whose ambition far outstripped their execution
• Making it out of there and finally finding the valet attendant an hour later, only to wait a good fifteen minutes in freezing cold before he finally showed up with our car

On the other hand, we did meet at least one semi-interesting couple before it just got too loud for conversation.  And then, while waiting for the attendant to bring our car around, the following exchange took place:

Drunk dudebro behind us:  "Whoa, check out this one's suit!"
Drunk Dudebro 2:  "Whoa, classy!  What's with the--"
Brian:  {turns around and looks at them}
DD 1:  "OH!  Okay!  Wow!  You're rocking that suit, man!"  {weaves off}
DD 2:  "Seriously.  Keep it up."  {follows}
Designated Driver Dudebro, quietly in passing as he caught up:  "That is a pretty cool suit."
Brian, to me:  "Dudebros gotta step out of da closet, yo."
 

...Worth it.