Ok, I got to thinking about this after a comment in another thread and after reviewing the length of my reply decided it merits a thread of its own:
What's the worst epsiode you've ever had being drunk?
For me, it's a tie. It shouldn't be, but it is.
Nominee #1, the should-be winner:
My first REAL drunk. I'd been buzzed a few times, sure. Tipsy, inebriated, even. But never stinking-a[/i]ss drunk until this time. At the tender age of fifteen, I talked one of the locals into buying two half-gallons and a fifth of liquor for myself and a buddy. Lord Calvert (fifth), gin (1/2 gal) and vodka (1/2 gal). The gin and vodka were exceedingly cheap. Russieka vodka, I can't recall the gin brand.
My buddy and I went to a hunting cabin with some of his cousins and as deer season wasn't in, we were sure to not be interrupted. We had enough food and such to last the weekend and some other people we knew were coming by Saturday night. I had recently purchased an S-10 pickup and was driving, even though you can't get a license til you're 16 in GA (rural ain't all bad, yall).
So, Friday night we didn't drink hardly anything. The stuff we had wasn't too smooth and we needed an audience to show off for, ya know. About 6PM Saturday we got one. His cousins showed up and one of them was dating a recent ex-girlfriend of mine. After a few swigs, the liquor wasn't so rough any more. I was particularly sulky because I liked the guy she was dating and couldn't come up with an excuse to be nasty to him. So I drank instead. Hard and fast. I killed the vodka over the course of three hours. I spent about two more hours crawling around in the woods puking it back up.
Finally everyone had had enough of the obnoxious drunk and my buddy's brother was going to take me home since I had managed to scare everyone when I got done puking up the vodka and started drinking the gin to 'wash the taste out of my mouth.' I clearly had problems. Some guy who took offense at my witty observation of 'you sure do got a big ole head to fill up that big ole hat' indicated it would be a good thing if they took me home before I drank myself to death. One of my problems with going home was that I objected to the guy driving my truck because I just knew he'd been drinking (he hadn't). Finally, in the exasperated condition one succumbs to dealing with a stubborn drunk, he agreed to give me his new car if he wrecked my truck. Of the way home, I only recall that it was extremely muddy and that I cussed him when my head popped off the dash and hit the window.
The next day (4 hours later) I woke up at home, in bed with my truck parked in the driveway. It had two flat tires and a cracked windshield and was so muddy you couldn't tell any of it. I've sicne figured out that the tires were flat from sliding sideways (seal broken) and the windshield cracked from my hard head coming off the dash. But I still spent two days harassing the guy about the keys to my new car he owed me. (Yes, I'm an as[i]shole, it shouldn't come as a surprise at this point.) I had to take the rims off my truck and pressure wash them to get the clay out well enough that driving didn't shake you off the road.
The reason this does not qualify as a clear winner is that
1. I never got busted by my parents.
2. I had no hangover whatsoever.
Nominee #2, who has all the action.
Fast forward a few years. I'm twenty. In college, I occasionally swing by my parents house just so they know I'm alive, but I mostly live with a group of young fellas like myself who go to school, leave school for work and leave work to drink, then pass out whereever we are. For the most part we never got really tore down because we couldn't afford to. We just stayed sorta happy all the time. Our part time jobs only netted around a hundred bucks a week after gas and living expenses (I had a HUGE rent of $200 before we split it 3 ways), but a hundred bucks goes a long way towards staying drunk if you believe in budgeting properly.
So now it's the end of the school year and my best friend in the whole world was graduating high school. He'd been sort of feeling left out over the past year or so that I didn't spend as much time hanging out with him as I used to but since what I was doing looked really fun he understood. I promised him that no matter what, he'd have the best graduation party 'The Lake' (our locality) had ever seen.
I worked extra hard, stayed sober a lot and put in a lot of effort and cash to go with what he had from his Dad (who was ultra-cool and not only let us have the party at his house but also threw in for all the food and didn't stop a single thing that night) and we had a hell of a party. Remember from Revenge of the Nerds when the jocks catch their house on fire? We did that to the shrubs.
I remember being in two fights that night. The first fight I wound up throwing a guy over the rail to the lower portion of their split-level living room and then jumping off on top of him. We wound up calling it a tie when it looked like it was going to get down to biting and looking for rocks to bash heads with. The second fight is less clear, but I remember that it started (for me) when some guy hit me in the back with a leg from a stool (I found out that's what it was later, at the time I just knew it was a stick.) I didn't even know him at the time, but you can't just let something like that pass. He was a lot bigger than I and a lot closer to sober so I didn't do too well (read: got my *** kicked) until the guy from the first fight hit the guy I was fighting with a five gallon bucket. After that, I won pretty fast. Some people just lose enthusiasm when things are starting to get fun.
The next image (that's mostly what I have from that night) is where I was proving that you CAN turn up a bottle of golden grain and just drink. Next, Karioke (I just wasn't appreciated for some reason. They didn't know talent when they heard it is more like it.)
Then I got mean. My buddy said he had to puke so we headed to his bathroom (he basically had a basement apartment in the house). Only when we got there, some jerk had passed out in the shower stall with his legs hanging all out where you could trip over him.
After I managed to kick him out of the way, I saw the greatest of sins occurring! Of all the people, my kid brother was hugging the toilet I'd been guiding my now-green friend to.
I peeked around his shoulders and saw that there was no vomit in the bowl. So he obviously wasn't done with his business. Politely, I inquired how long he was planning to hog the bowl all to himself.
No reply.
I asked again.
Retching noise, no splash. Three seconds later, repeat.
Ahh, I finally discerned the problem! The poor boy needed help. Squatting near his ear, I asked if he'd like for me to bring him a nice greasy pork sandwich.
Nothing. Another dry-heave.
Howsabout a nice big glass filled with hot mayonaise?
Another dry-heave.
At this point, a thought flitted thorugh my mind that perhaps this uninvited, life-crowding, follow me around and wanna be like me excuse for a kid brother could be faking to get attention. (I was pretty sure he used Mercurachrome and a Qtip to fake the Chicken Pox when I was in 2nd grade just because I had them and was getting all the attention, so this wasn't a first-time offense.)
So I pulled out the big guns. 'Hey Scott. Get a load of this.' Quick turn and......blaaaat! I laid a great big juicy fart on top of his head. My stomach was as solid as an iron cauldron and *I* felt a little woozy when I caught a whiff of that one.
Another dry-heave.
That's it, I thought! This boy needs some discipline. So, as any good big brother would, I began yelling at him, 'You better get that puke on up, boy! I ain't got all goddamn night to wait on you, you little pus[i][/i]sy!' Each sentence was accentuated by a swift kick in the buttocks and a 'Donk' sound as his head struck porcelain. About five kicks into this, I heard my friend's giggles had started to sound a little wetter than they should. I turned, and sure enough, he had given up and just puked in the sink. Mission failed.
I went out the side door to get some air and think. I was really overheated, plus I thought that maybe my brother would think I didn't like him if I kept on kicking him when there was no longer a need for it. It did help, though. I saw some vomit in his hair, so he got it on up with the kick-induced rocking motion. (He never did thank me, I guess he forgot to. Doesn't matter, that's what family is for.)
It was a really clear night and I distinctly recall looking at the stars for a while and then realizing I had fallen over at some point. When I got up I was really dizzy. I looked at my watch and saw that it was 2AM. This party had started at about 4PM so I felt like I'd pulled my shift.
Suddenly, I couldn't recall what was so fun that I'd want to be out at 2AM when I'd promised my grandfather (a strict AA member who regularly preaches at me about drinking) that I would drive fenceposts for him the next day. Just thinking about that made me start feeling sick. I'd be using a 40 lb post-driver to literally pound posts into the packed clay dams around some of his ponds. Whoooeee, time to go home and get some shuteye.
I started walking to my car (darn thing WOULD be uphill, wouldn't it?). Forty minutes later I had completed the epic journey of ten yards and managed to open the car door. Then I sat down, got my right foot and placed it on the gas pedal, put my right hand on the steering wheel, braced my left foot in preparation to shift my weight and slide the rest of the way into the car....and passed out for four hours in that exact position. Some kind soul came by and wedged a pine cone in the corner of the door to make the interior light and buzzer go off. To this day, I do not know who my benefactor was.
The sun was dazzling bright in my face (just rising good). Looked at my watch, it said 6:35. Ewww, bad taste in my mouth. Gotta drive home. WTF, there's a pine cone in my door. Kick, flop, kick. Ok, close the door. Keys, where are my keys? Ignition. Can I do this? Yeah, I'm ok.
Wooo, I hope I'm ok.
I managed to get 85% of the 1.5 miles home in about 15 or so minutes. Then there was 'the curve.' It's a full 90 degrees, unbanked. There are only about 15 houses on the road after 'the curve' before it dead ends, so it shouldn't be a big deal. And usually isn't. Just slow down under 15 or go in the ditch; your choice. It took me a good minute or two to round 'the curve' that particular morning. I had to back up twice and just sit there for a few seconds to sort things out. I was having problems getting the wheel turned before my car could idle through the distance involved.
Fortunately for me, the hovel I called home was the last house on the road. The road dead-ended into my drive. So I pushed the gate open with my bumper and drove as close to the porch as I could. I shut off the car, gathered my dignity, and crawled up the steps across the porch and into the house.
I made it all the way to the bedroom on my feet once I used a chair for a 'little help.' The moment I laid down and closed my eyes....spin, spin spin, the world is spinning slowly to the right. My eyes snapped open in alarm and the world unwound back to the left for a while. The bathroom, as it is in most houses, was in close proximity. I managed to crawl there before the vomiting started.
After the worst of things passed, I stayed there until the phone rang at 8:20 (hold me, American Standard, I feel so dirty).
My grandfather, of course. Since I'd never been late or missed any days helping him, he wanted to know if something was wrong, especially since I hadn't called him. In my infinite wisdom, I stated, 'Sorry Papa, but I'm WAY too drunk to come to work today.'
It took three days before I felt close to right again. I no longer chug Golden Grain. Frank the tank is dead.
The reasons why I haven't declared this one as the clear winner:
1. I had lots of fun; maybe even enough to offset the pain.
2. I met a new friend who I keep in touch with to this day. (The guy I got in the first fight with. He's now married with 3 kids. Whodathunkit? )
Anyway, those are the two episodes that I qualify as my worst, though there have been others that were also fun and interesting. Who's had really bad drunk experiences worth sharing?