Brain cells beware.

[Never]

Would someone explain to me the joy of being totally wasted?

Why does that nice girl at work talk about the time she woke up in her friend's bathtub and she had no clue she had even traveled to her friend's city let alone where she was with pride?

Why is Andrew's battle cry, "Dude, I'm going to get so smashed. I'm gonna do everything!"

Why does my boss laugh when he talks about belching up beer suds?

Is throwing up fun? Is missing work because, two days after you did 'everything', you still feel like shit a great experience? Do people enjoy waking up in strange places, with people they don't know and having no recollection of the past fifteen or so hours?

Tell me, I really need to know.

 

[Ravenloft]

I don't know about all that Nev, but I do enjoy a nice buzz in the comforts of my own home... I did the "Lets get so wasted that we lose time!!!" Thing once... Made it so I would phyically gag over the taste of anything harder than beer/wine/mixed drink too... Your body usually knows when your being stupid. *Except when it comes to sex for some odd reason... Heheh!* And will be rather demanding that you STOP, EXPUNGE, and... Take a nice long nap... Heheh!

 

[SweetCherry]

I don't see the fun of it either. Personally, i hate getting that drunk and losing control of myself. I find it very juvenile. i guess maybe they are all just immature idiots to do that to their bodies.

 

[Countess DeWinter]

I've been raised and still live in a very repressed environment, but I have a natural exhibitionist tendency. Getting a little tipsy is like a soft hand covering up those repressions and inhibitions. I can be the me that's inside me, rather than the proper veneer which is cracked in many places, btw!
I've done that too drunk to remember thing. I've had the three day hangovers. But I learned from them. Besides, I like being able to remember all the debauchery!

 

[Cheyenne]

Pretty much a non-drinker here. Did all that stuff until I was about 25 or 26- I think because you were "supposed to" back then. I grew up and realized that I'd probably die at a young age if I didn't slow down, not that I ever was that bad to start with. But drinking was encouraged at company events back then, and I was the "odd ball" when I switched to just drinking diet soda. Now I'll have a drink or two, and then switch to non-alcoholic drinks for the rest of the night. Safer for driving, and I don't get sick. Much better for me all around.

 

[Ambrosious]

They are bored. Like me.

 

[Merelan]

Cheyenne... damn cheaper too!

 

[April]

I've been shitfaced, and I've been really drunk. Both were fun at the time. Mostly because of the people I was with at the time. In both cases, I had a headache the next day, but that was all. Now I don't do it simply because it doesn't appeal much to me anymore.

Countess, I agree with the soft hand you mentioned. It's like that for me, too. It allows me to do things I normally would not do, but would like to. Like dancing on a table. Always keep control, though. Maybe not total, but enough to keep me from doing something really stupid.

 

[livin_simple]

I'll enjoy a mild buzz with some wine or beer. But I have never had a desire to get totally plastered. Drugs have always been off limits. I'm responsible for the consequences of my behavior so I want to be in control of that behavior.

So many people associate this with not having any fun. I've never understood how a person can claim to have had fun when their friends later describe all the idiotic things they did, how they turned his head when he passed out so he wouldn't drown in his own vomit and the amazing hangover he had for the next couple of days.

A little wine to loosen up is way different from thinking you can only have fun when you're totally plastered.

That's my opinion - for what it's worth

 

[Whispersecret]

I've never seen the appeal of getting plastered either. Vomiting is such a horrid experience, I avoid it at all costs. Booze is expensive. I'd rather order dessert than a drink.

 

[KillerMuffin]

People get to be free and uninhibited when they're sloshed. They do things they never would have been able to do sober. Like get up and have the vertical semi-clothed version of sex on the dance floor with some hot looking guy/girl. The downside is they get to believing they can't have fun unless they're wasted. They rest of it doesn't even come into it. Of course, our culture glamorizes inebriation. That's starting to change, thank gawd.

 

[Never]

Let us review.
It's day one of "I'm going to a great party tonight" not showing up at work because she's 'sick.'

And day four of 'acid is fun' not showing up because he has a 'viral infection'.

 

[teresafannin]

I did way too much partying when I was younger,but outgrew it, especially since it takes so long to recover. I like an occasional drink with dinner, but nothing excessive. Because of my past history, I am not willing to take a chance on not being able to stop. There are several people I work with that basically live to party. They miss a lot of work & even at my worst, I didn't miss work.

 

[Darowyn]

I like my life and enjoy the things that happen in it. I like to feel the emotions that those things cause.
So, I don't enjoy drinking myself legless.
If my life was hateful to me, if I didn't like what was in my head, losing consciousness might be a rational choice.
I know a lot of very unhappy and angry young people- our town will be full of them tonight. Probably yours will too.
So tonight I'll have a couple of glasses of wine at home, and I'll be happy. They'll be plastered, get into fights, get each other pregnant, get arrested.
I'm glad I'm not young any more!