"I am, actually," Bruce said, tone still dry but now picking up a barely there element of pained. "I am very in demand, both because I have money and because I am entertaining and make people feel better about themselves by virtue of being drunk and idiotic."

And sometimes abrasive and almost always embarrassing, but entertaining. "I avoid them as much as I can."

Someday, Clark would figure out how much truth Bruce was telling - maybe - though this one wasn't even attempting to hide in sarcasm. Or, well, the only sarcasm was directed toward those fucking parties and how much he hated every last one of them.