5 word challenge - (anti)social

How it works: Write an entry of any length or style using five assigned words. Bold the five words. Tag your post with 5wordchallenge and any other tags you wish to add.

This week's challenge words: meringue, traffic, flowers, social, bill

Here's my entry:

Stuck in traffic. Can't make the office party. Breaks my heart in two.
Missing out on all the niceties of forced social mingling.
Shallow chitchat and nasty gossip, topped with a frothy meringue of feigned goodwill.
Suits and skirts parading 'round the buffet like pretty flowers with gnashing teeth.
Pity I won't be there.
Tabulate lost brownie points and bill me.