Not sure how to answer this Sarge. Sure, you may lay around and do nothing in the hive, but if you mate with a queen, your days are over as you fall genitaless to the ground to your agonizing death. To me (natural urges aside) I'd stay for the single season I get to shack up with the workers and not go queen hunting - of course, they don't have the foresite of what will happen if they mate, but all in all a drones life aint bad until they are tossed in the Fall.