When I typed out the title I wrote "The time time I was drukn" and I am completely sober. I'll keep it. Even when I'm sober I have drunk-like tendencies (and I have been told this).
I already have the demeanor of a drunk person. I like to argue, yell, shout, screech, scream, and, to put it simply, be loud. So being drunk is just another extension of that side of myself and a more exaggerated version of myself. Even when I'm not drinking, I have been asked if I have been. I like to live life to the fullest and to me that means being loud and dramatic.
The first time I was drunk in college, I did not expect to be drunk. I wasn't trying to become drunk. Does anyone ever? It always starts the same. "Yeah I can handle four beers, two shots of tequila, and a mixed drink with more vodka than anything else in a span of one hour." But in real life it always ends the same. "I thought I could handle that AND more."
That is exactly what happened the first time I was drunk in college in September of my sophomore year and was invited over to a friend's dorm to hang out with him and his roommates. Not only did I insult the sport of basketball that night, I rapped Kanye very badly, asked every guy who came to the party if his name was Greg (that's a different story for a different post), and helped win two games of beer pong. I remember telling everyone at the party I had to work the next morning at 7:30. 7:30. In. The. Morning. I was drunk.
It was a weird night. It was the first time I was ever drunk in a college setting so the weirdness makes sense. All of my roommates had gone off campus that night so I went to the party alone. I remember texting my roommates in a group message on how the friends were giving me more attention than the actual guy who invited me (see above). Even when I'm drunk I still demand a certain amount of attention.
I learned something that night. I learned I don't get hungover (or I'm still young enough not to get hungover), I'm funny as shit when I'm drunk (something people tell me often), and it's a lot easier to wake up at 6:30 a.m. the next morning for your 7:30 shift when you don't actually go to bed and just take a shower drunk (which I have done a few times at this point). Waking up there's always that Fear of What You Did the Night Before, but when you never go to sleep it's no problem right?
The night ended up being fine. My roommates eventually came to the party to "rescue" me and had a fun time with me. We talked to people we had never met before (and still didn't meet a Greg). I handled my alcohol and didn't throw up. I had been to parties, I had been tipsy and buzzed, and had drinks before but I had never been drunk in college. I like to joke I was born with a BAC of a 40-year old man with a beer belly who has been drinking for hours. I'm not a lightweight, but I sure know how to get drunk.
The night ended up being fine. My roommates eventually came to the party to "rescue" me and had a fun time with me. We talked to people we had never met before (and still didn't meet a Greg). I handled my alcohol and didn't throw up. I had been to parties, I had been tipsy and buzzed, and had drinks before but I had never been drunk in college. I like to joke I was born with a BAC of a 40-year old man with a beer belly who has been drinking for hours. I'm not a lightweight, but I sure know how to get drunk.