Ho Ho Ho

Like the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the holidays are fast approaching (as if you didn't know, since the holiday shopping ads started the day after Labor Day). Now's the time to eat too much, drink too much, spend too much, and get nothing you really wanted, or even asked for (when you were sober, at least.) And with this comes the mandatory attendance of the office holiday party, an annual event which has cost many a reputation and sometimes employment, and yet still somehow keeps happening. SO the question is, is it better to have no "+1", a ploy to keep the office group "bonded" and keep down costs but somehow always ends up with Larry from Sales (married with three kids) and Elaine from HR (divorced, horny) playing "let's hide the toner" in the supply closet, OR is it better for people to bring their significant others, with the almost certain assurance that your boyfriend, instantly shitfaced from the dreamy proposition of an "open bar", and fueled by a misguided sense of chivalry and vengeance, decides to tell your boss (even better, grabs the mike from the Rent-a-DJ) what a retarded fuckface he is?