My friend Jeffy works for Amazon.com.
(That’s not really part of the story, but I wanted to explain why this memory even came to the forefront of my mind)
So I was telling another friend about Jeffy’s wonderful career, and I said something to the effect of “He works for a 6 foot-tall woman who hacked one [...]

This past weekend, my friend Amanda (and, weirdly enough, my completely-unrelated-friend Stacey) went to something called the “Bachelor’s Ball”. Apparently there have been one hundred some-odd of these things previously (this one was touted as the “103rd Annual”).
Now, I know absolutely nothing about it, or who puts it on, or where it was held, [...]