My first night at college, two days before classes were to start. We got a few cases of beer, some whiskey, vodka, etc..... and decided to have the guys from the floor in our dorm down to sort of get to know them. Well, it turned into a big "I can outdrink you!" kind of thing. Of course since I was "the small town guy" I couldn't let the big city kids drink me under the table.
Well, seemed like a good idea at the time to switch over from the beer to the whiskey about three or four hours into our little get together. By this time it was a full blown party. So........ gotta impress all the guys there you know and well, there were lots of young ladies there who had yet to witness an idiot of my caliber so ...........
Next morning I woke up with my head in a waste basket. Apparently after I finished my fifth of whiskey I went for the peach schnapps. That apparently seemed like a good idea too.
On my way to breakfast I was walking across the quad and people I had never met were calling out to me by my nickname and I wondered how the hell they even knew who I was.
No big deal, we've all done stupid shit while drinking, right?
Four years later on the night before we graduated a bunch of us gathered together to reminisce about our times together and talk about what our futures may hold. There were about six of us still there from that first night. One of them, the wild man of the group, brought out his collection of 8 mm films that he had shot over the time we were there. Some really great memories that left us all smiling and sort of wishing that we could live it all over again.
Then he put that last reel on the projector and said, "Hey guys, you all remember this one don't you? Well, maybe all of you don't." Yep, there I was in all my glory from that first night. Nope not just drunk, I was buck ass naked roaming the halls asking everybody I saw if they had any beer for me. Stopped to pose with probably 20 girls while I was out there on my hunt and smiling to beat all hell. Not a care in the world.
So, what seemed like a good idea at the time turned into an "OMFG, did I really do that?" four years later. I'm scared to death that I will someday stumble across that damn clip online.
