person A: I went to the bowling alley all by myself because my friends ditched me. It was pretty darn awful.
person B: Did you have fun there by yourself at least?
person A: I tried too_comma_ but I felt bad seeing everyone else in large groups having a blast. That should've have been me yesterday!
person B: You should have joined one of the other groupls and pretended to belong.  See who would've said something first.