one sketchy evening.
i just had one of the most... interesting, for lack of a better word, nights.
it was a dark and stormy night, and my parents were at UC for the weekend. they took me out to dinner, and i pregamed it with two glasses of some pretty good wine. i still have some steak left over which i plan to eat. then they drop me back at the dorm, where i wait around until claire, her boyfriend danny, her sister rosie, and one of her sister's friends katie get back from dinner with claire's parents. they get back around 10, i give them a call and they say their room smells like vomit and they need to get out.
we meet outside and sit in the lounge while i call some people about parties. most of their phones are off or they dont know of anything, so we head out to frat row. there was just a football game where the UC bearcats kicked memphis' ass, so we figure that there will be some parties, right?
wrong. totally dead. after almost an hour of walking we decide to fuck it and go back to the dorms. as we're cutting through the engineering building as a shortcut, we see 4 guys walkin and i know one of them because he lives across from me. he's sort of a sketchy character, drinks and smokes pot alot. he says they're goin to get their drink on and ask if we want to go. i try to coax claire and co. to go with, but they dont want to go out with strangers or something. now that i look back, it probably was for the best that we didn't, because the guy i know came back to the dorm completely smashed and passed out in the hallway later that evening. so as we approach claire's dorm, she says she has to do some drawings for monday (typical) but we get the hint that she and danny need some time to themselves ;) . so anyway katie, rose and i go back to my dorm, and what do we find in the lobby?
twenty people standing around with 4 cops getting a lecture about drinking. we're pretty weirded out and try to ask whats going on. no response from the po's. we wait for them to leave, and then notice that they are all in handcuffs. apparently there was a tiki bar set up on the 3rd floor and they were serving drinks with their door open, and got busted for it.
so. we head upstairs to find that guy i knew's roommate is going out in a few minutes with some people on the floor. wanting to get hammered, we decide to go with them, even though it might be awkward.
awkward it was. we end up going to "uncle woody's" which is a shady bar, and after talking with some people there somehow we get inside? it was stuffy and hot in the bar, the girls didn't want anything to drink there, so i order a rum and coke and down that. cheap rum. expensive drink. no more of that shit.
we head outside and wait while my floormates wait for some guy they know who is gonna hook them up with booze. there's a jimi-johns sandwich place next door so i go in there and get a sponge, i mean sandwich. just as we're about to leave because my floormates haven't been seen, they come out and say we're going to get the liquid. finally. i was pretty impatient at that point and was told to calm down.
so we go down a dark alley with construction vehicles and wait around while the guy they knew gets us some stuff. rose and katie didn't want beer so we told him to get vodka. however, apparently in ohio no drink with more than 24 proof can be sold after 10 pm. complete bullshit. so we get a 6 of mikes for the girls and a 6 of heinekin for me, and the other 3 of my floormates get a 24 of coors light.
now, how did we get it into the dorm? i'm not exactly sure as me and the girls went upstairs to wait, but i think it involved tossing the drinks into a big portfolio bag which was brought downstairs. talk about suspicious. anyway the booze arrives (finally) at about 2:30. by that time we're all painfully sober and tired. so we go into the room they brought the booze to and take some back to my dorm down the hall and drink it on the floor in the closet hall area thing. it was pretty chill, we just talked and related some stories. an hour later we had downed most of the stuff, and they put the rest of a mikes or two into my hillel temple water bottle. messed up, huh? anyway i walked them back to their dorm where claire let us in, and then i go up and chill for 10 minutes and say goodnight. then i go back to my dorm and bring the remaining drinks to the other room and finish them off, joking around with my floormates. it was freaking awesome by that point, but not without 3 hours of wandering around with sketchy people doing not much of anything. finally i got back to my room at 5 am, realized i had to go with my parents to a museum and dinner and that i would have to get up around 11. so much for catching up on sleep. and here i am now, with a headache and some advil.
damn i need a vacation.
it was a dark and stormy night, and my parents were at UC for the weekend. they took me out to dinner, and i pregamed it with two glasses of some pretty good wine. i still have some steak left over which i plan to eat. then they drop me back at the dorm, where i wait around until claire, her boyfriend danny, her sister rosie, and one of her sister's friends katie get back from dinner with claire's parents. they get back around 10, i give them a call and they say their room smells like vomit and they need to get out.
we meet outside and sit in the lounge while i call some people about parties. most of their phones are off or they dont know of anything, so we head out to frat row. there was just a football game where the UC bearcats kicked memphis' ass, so we figure that there will be some parties, right?
wrong. totally dead. after almost an hour of walking we decide to fuck it and go back to the dorms. as we're cutting through the engineering building as a shortcut, we see 4 guys walkin and i know one of them because he lives across from me. he's sort of a sketchy character, drinks and smokes pot alot. he says they're goin to get their drink on and ask if we want to go. i try to coax claire and co. to go with, but they dont want to go out with strangers or something. now that i look back, it probably was for the best that we didn't, because the guy i know came back to the dorm completely smashed and passed out in the hallway later that evening. so as we approach claire's dorm, she says she has to do some drawings for monday (typical) but we get the hint that she and danny need some time to themselves ;) . so anyway katie, rose and i go back to my dorm, and what do we find in the lobby?
twenty people standing around with 4 cops getting a lecture about drinking. we're pretty weirded out and try to ask whats going on. no response from the po's. we wait for them to leave, and then notice that they are all in handcuffs. apparently there was a tiki bar set up on the 3rd floor and they were serving drinks with their door open, and got busted for it.
so. we head upstairs to find that guy i knew's roommate is going out in a few minutes with some people on the floor. wanting to get hammered, we decide to go with them, even though it might be awkward.
awkward it was. we end up going to "uncle woody's" which is a shady bar, and after talking with some people there somehow we get inside? it was stuffy and hot in the bar, the girls didn't want anything to drink there, so i order a rum and coke and down that. cheap rum. expensive drink. no more of that shit.
we head outside and wait while my floormates wait for some guy they know who is gonna hook them up with booze. there's a jimi-johns sandwich place next door so i go in there and get a sponge, i mean sandwich. just as we're about to leave because my floormates haven't been seen, they come out and say we're going to get the liquid. finally. i was pretty impatient at that point and was told to calm down.
so we go down a dark alley with construction vehicles and wait around while the guy they knew gets us some stuff. rose and katie didn't want beer so we told him to get vodka. however, apparently in ohio no drink with more than 24 proof can be sold after 10 pm. complete bullshit. so we get a 6 of mikes for the girls and a 6 of heinekin for me, and the other 3 of my floormates get a 24 of coors light.
now, how did we get it into the dorm? i'm not exactly sure as me and the girls went upstairs to wait, but i think it involved tossing the drinks into a big portfolio bag which was brought downstairs. talk about suspicious. anyway the booze arrives (finally) at about 2:30. by that time we're all painfully sober and tired. so we go into the room they brought the booze to and take some back to my dorm down the hall and drink it on the floor in the closet hall area thing. it was pretty chill, we just talked and related some stories. an hour later we had downed most of the stuff, and they put the rest of a mikes or two into my hillel temple water bottle. messed up, huh? anyway i walked them back to their dorm where claire let us in, and then i go up and chill for 10 minutes and say goodnight. then i go back to my dorm and bring the remaining drinks to the other room and finish them off, joking around with my floormates. it was freaking awesome by that point, but not without 3 hours of wandering around with sketchy people doing not much of anything. finally i got back to my room at 5 am, realized i had to go with my parents to a museum and dinner and that i would have to get up around 11. so much for catching up on sleep. and here i am now, with a headache and some advil.
damn i need a vacation.