Have you ever watched people get drunk?
If you’re getting drunk with them it can be good fun. But standing by, sober, they get to looking like fools. It’s a sobering experience. I crack myself up!
In 1985 I was 6 months pg with my first child. My sister and I went to Georgia to visit my dad and his wife. We went out to a club one night. They were all drinking, I was not.
My dad’s wife got pretty plastered and she was driving. At one point I quietly asked my dad if I could drive us home. He mentioned it to his wife, and she threw a drunken fit yelling something about insurance not covering other drivers, which was ridiculous, of course.
My dad looked at me. I almost never dream of defying my dad, but in this case I put my foot down and firmly shook my head.
Well, long story short, she took off and we were left to get a cab back to their house.
When we got there his wife triumphantly met us at the door.
We just ignored her and went to our respective beds.
She was super apologetic the next day, for what it was worth.
This weekend was Rick’s company Christmas party, Friday night. Same thing. I was drinking, but stuck to wine because I don’t really like wine and I knew I wouldn’t drink too much. Plus we had a huge dinner.
Afterward some folks met up at the bar of the hotel and proceeded to get plastered. I stayed in my room and watched documentaries about the 60’s. Every so often, though, I had to go to the elevator to go out side and smoke. Every dang time those doors opened, there was one of Rick’s coworkers in the elevator, drunker than they were the last time I saw them! “Val! I love you man!” Big sloppy hug. It was kind of funny, actually. :D
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Yes, total loss of dignity when they reach the point of not even knowing where they are!
And fortunately, usually most of the folks around them have lost their dignity at the same time.
On one of my trips out to smoke I stopped in at the bar for a sec. There was one guy who was SO drunk I thought it had to be an act. My husband said it wasn’t. I was just, like, “Wow.”
A couple of people escorted him to his room (he fell several times.) It was room 105. The VP of my husband’s company (really cool dude) said, “OK! From now on, we charge everything to room 105!” LOL! Can you imagine the guy’s face when he saw his room charges the next day? :D
But, Rick’s company was picking up all the tabs so it was OK.
I have the privilage to view people before and after they had gone to the local pubs in a Resort Town. It is interesting how the person protrayed themselves when sober and how opposite they became after a few drinks. I soon saw local people that I considered to think about dating but soon changed my mind when I saw emotions that were anger,bitterness,emotional,sad etc
Perhaps this is what the person really feels everyday in their life and maybe they need to get it off their backs? But please see a therapist not a pub to air out grief. Liquor just makes things worse for the person and nothing gets resolved. I worked at a convienencie store and my shift ended by midnight but by then i had seen enough already. One never knows how some people are hurting inside and not feeling confident to share it with a good frien or therapist.
I’ve never watched people get drunk but I’ve seen people get drunk.
It annoys me to be around drunk people when I’m sober, which I always am. I don’t enjoy drinking as I start to feel sick to my stomach way before I’ve consumed enough to even have a slight buzz. I avoid being in situations where I’m surrounded by drunk people, but when it does happen I don’t find it funny at all. I have nothing against people drinking, but they just aggravate me. I’m glad I found a guy that got his drinking days behind him before we met (and before he was old enough to legally drink alcohol, as it turns out). We drink maybe twice a year, and I’ve seen him drunk only twice since we met seven years ago.
I agree, in most cases it isn’t funny.
During my childhood I had little choice in the matter. Watching people get drunk was routine (and really not that humorous).
As an adult now, I do have a choice and I choose not to. If I find myself around drunk people nowadays, I’m outta there. They can fend for themselves.
And Dutchess, good for you for sticking to your guns on the drunk driver. You may have had to pay for a cab home but you got there alive and lived to tell of it.
Yeah. It was a little scary because I’m not used to over riding my dad, but it was my baby’s life at stake. I’d over ride God if I had to!
Plenty of times. When I was married, my husband used to get together with his buddies and drink all the time. I would hang out with them but I rarely drank.So I actually got to watch them get drunk. The more they drank, the louder they got and every little thing was amusing to them. It was embarrassing, especially in public.
At your age, why do you still smoke? If you didn’t need to go out of your hotel room and smoke, you could have avoided the unpleasant people on the elevator.
I was a bartender in Texas. I’ve seen and watched people get drunk!
Yes, often. Not fun. At some point, I had to stop a classmate from falling asleep in the sea.
It is one of the reasons I dread parties and clubbing.
So just don’t go to parties and don’t go clubbing, @longgone.
I loathe sloppy drunks. I have not actively watched someone get drunk but have been around plenty of obnoxious drunks.
One example was a cocky salesman that worked with my ex husband. I had driven them home from a big summer work bash at their bosses vineyard in our old area.
When we got back to the house the jerky loud mouthed asshole colleague proceeded to chase and harass one of my pet geese causing her to fall down a hill risking breaking her leg. I was LIVID, told him he was welcome in my home ever again,that how dare he come to my home and harass my animals?
He became all victimized and said he was walking home ( we lived a mile down a gravel road and 12 miles to the nearest town. ) I told him have fun, keep an eye out for Mountain Lions and you should get back to the city in about 3 days. lol
He stormed off in the dark and then returned about 15 minutes later and my ex husband bedded him down on the couch. I was SO FREAKING FURIOUS at this jerk, he never came back to my home again, I made damn sure of that! haha
My first round of college I waitressed nights at a popular DJ dance bar. Watched some of them get drunk on Wednesday (Ladies Night), and Friday & Saturday (cuz it was the weekend).
It was both sad and interesting.
Then when I moved, I worked morning/days at a tavern. Watched third shifters come in after work and drink all day (and night on Friday).
Mostly, it was just sad.
I was at a friends bachelor party and wasn’t drinking, but having a grand time with my friends. One person who invited himself became the object of our attention as we kept feeding him drinks and issuing challenges to him until he passed out. Then we decorated him with sharpies and shaved his legs. I wish I had taken pictures, but in our circle there was a strict “no cameras” rule when it came to bachelor parties.
Well, that was nice of them, not to take pictures anyway.
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