‘After midnight, we’re going to let it all hang down.” – Eric Clapton (1970)

According to a study cited by the New York Post, in 2026 all that hangs down is the tubing on your CPAP machine.

Yes, the social butterflies are crawling back into the cocoon, and the American Dream has been downsized to “finding enough time to dream.”

Over the past two decades, the percentage of evenings that Americans spend with friends has dropped by more than half, and late-night (after midnight) socializing has almost vanished.

The governing principle now is “Friends don’t let friends…catch them without an alibi.” (“Joni! I swear we were going to invite you to game night last Friday, but …uh, Barry suddenly remembered he has a conjoined twin…”)

The Post regards this as a “depressing” development, but it would probably have tickled my late Grandmother Adams. She lectured her........

© Yuma Sun