absolutely. the party of big regret. whatever THE THING is, it has to be sincerely mortifying, more so now that they live in the same building and have a mutual friend because there's no escaping this secret shame. it needs to lead to tense moments when they're left alone just looking at each other thinking the other one is probably thinking about that which can never be mentioned so they both want to crawl into a hole and die. but they can't, so they smile and nod and make painful idle chit chat. hi, how are ya?