I find for me, being drunk doesn’t happen the way I expect it to occur. I don’t ever start my evenings anymore thinking “I am going to get this drunk tonight.” In fact I can’t say I have been royally shit faced in a long while (alright, maybe that’s not true).

I find getting drunk happens to me more out of chance these days. I’ll go to a friends house and he will be mixing or offering a drink. I’ll ask for a re-fill and that turns into 4 more. By the time we leave to go anywhere I will have a nice glow on me.

I find being drunk has changed for me over the years. Just as I turned 19 I started getting really bad hangovers. Worse than the average bear. No matter how many attempts I made to avoid the hang over (drinking crazy amounts of water, eating food/bread, coffees, cutting myself off earlier or McDonalds with Oravec in the morning) nothing will work like it once did.

I find that the consequence of the hangover has turned me off drinking heavily. I guess, for the most part is a good thing. I have been able to avoid un-needed fights, arguments and situations due to my sober behavior. But I will say this; not drinking also leaves you out of the loop. By not drinking at parties or not drinking as much, people don’t seem to have as much fun with you and vise-verse. It’s almost like when you reach a certain level of intoxication you enter this club that only other drunken people are in. And I will admit, that party is awesome (at least at the time it feels that way). To a sober viewer you probably look like and are acting like a pompous jack ass.

The truth of the matter is when you take drinking for what it is; all the troubles, risks, hangovers and lost money – making it to that special drunken club almost doesn’t seem worth it.
So what’s the appeal? I ask myself that question EVERY time I wake up hung-over and with all of my “never again” speeches, I always keep Tylenol near me – just in case.