Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:07:13 -0500
Subject: Pitfalls of being drunk in public
From:
jenayams@gmail.comTo:
chris_koulouris@hotmail.com
Hey!
Can't wait to hear what you think. Even if you hate it, I want to hear the feedback. Don't worry I won't hold you entirely responsible for my suicide. Thanks Chris!
Best,
J
Wasted, twisted, trashed, ripped, sh*t-faced, whatever the term, we have all been there one time or another. But when does it go from just having a good time to having serious consequences on your life. We all know the health problems that accompany excessive drinking but what about the social after math? Alcohol tends to release a part of ourselves that we may be either too scared or too ashamed to reveal in our ordinary existence. It can turn the mouse into a lion, a housewife into a whore, and the strongest of leaders into emotionally distraught eye leaking messes. But so what? In the day in age of Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and the countless other social networking sites out there, a night of "harmless fun" can ruin your relationships, social status and even ones career.
And while you may not remember dancing on the bar with your bra on your head singing along to Joan Jett's, "I Love Rock & Roll" or that sloppy fat middle aged bald guy you allowed to do body shots off of your tummy, It's all good because when you were giving lap dances, unbeknownst to you, your "friend" was recording it all on their blackberry. And with the push of a button has plastered your good good night all over the web for the entire world to see. That includes your mom, sister, boss, pastor, you better believe your pastor checks out Youtube. Or you in your own drunken haze have updated your FB status to note, "I am f***ed up" when you were supposedly by your grandmother's hospital bedside. Don't you recall?; that's why you couldn't turn in that report your supervisor requested because of your emotional distress, wink wink! Needless to say, you will not be receiving a generous severance package along with you pink slip.
And as you stumble out of your favorite pub either by choice or by force. Oh yeah, when you get too drunk, soo drunk to the point where they are refusing you alcohol, you will be tossed out. The venue is not taking responsibility for you. They are in the business of making money not baby sitting people who don't know their limit or who choose to ignore it. You will get belligerent and try to fight the bouncer 8 times your size and look like a total moron and never be allowed to show your face there again. You will then walk down the street screaming like a crazy person as you try to hail a cab while your friend takes a tinkle "well hidden" between two cars and providing comedic value to countless passersby. Don't think for a second that everyone doesn't know you are smashed as you walk in zig zags with your head sunk low doing your best night of the living dead impression. And why can't you get a cab? Because the taxi doesn't want to pay for the car cleaning after you barf all over the back seat. But if you are lucky enough to score a cabbie and you sober up enough to slur your address, you will get home and hopefully it is in one piece.
I know that crime is down in the city but it hasn't disappeared, these are dangerous times people. Criminals will not pass up the opportunity to snatch the purse of a drunken stiletto clad fashionista or punch a guy in the face and steal his wallet or even worse follow you right into your home putting you and your 3 other roommates in grave danger. You are not in control and while in a sane mind you may fly like a butter fly and sting like a bee you will not be able to defend yourself against a savage thug, who is "just trying to feed his family".
So my best advice is to you while engaing in your next night on the town is to sip slowly, drink plenty of water and smash your friend's iPhone immediately.
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