As a single, social college student, with many wonderful girlfriends, we tend to run into some characters out in the real world. All of the stories mentioned stem from personal experiences, as well as experiences my friends have been through. Each story is unique in its own way, and usually has a deeper meaning. The following stories will hopefully teach you about the dangers of drinking and mingling.
It’s spring break and a bunch of my girlfriends and I decide to go out and celebrate our mini vacate from school. Two of us are at the bar when two wobbling guys come up and offer to buy us a drink. Great gesture, yet, since we were both a little tipsy already, and clearly they were too, we politely thanked them and turned down the offer. Not to mention, we just weren’t that into them. Angrily, they then decided to ask us why we didn’t want a drink and why we were being “too cool” for them. I literally ignored them as my girlfriend strategically walked away, but they kept throwing drunken daggers.
After a few more extremely annoying comments, I turned around and said, “Please, just let it go,” and walked away. They then proceeded to repeatedly say “Have a nice day! Have a nice day!” – granted, it was one in the morning.
Fighting at a bar should never happen, especially if it’s with strangers.
Here are some lessons I’d like to share with the boys:
LESSON #1: Just like they say, don’t drive if you’re too drunk, and don’t hit on a girl if you’re too drunk to handle the possibility being turned down.
As much as a drunk college guy may be attractive to a drunk college girl for the obvious reasons (if so, go to Murphy’s on Tuesday), a drunk guy in general is not the ideal person a girl wants to meet. Yes, it is a double standard, but it’s the truth.
A friend of mine was dating this great, loving and polite guy for a couple of weeks, yet every time they went out together he got completely trashed. At first, she tried to keep up with his binge drinking habits, but eventually she realized a 400-pound gorilla wouldn’t be able to match his tolerance level. To add to it, he started becoming an angry, jealous drunk, saying drunken comments to her if a guy would simply look in her direction. Needless to say, my friend dumped the loser and is now in a happy, moderate-drinking relationship.
LESSON #2: Handle your drinking, don’t make a fool out of yourself.
Don’t get me wrong, having fun is the name of the game, especially when you first meet someone, but guys, we are always looking, judging and processing our future.
Let’s face it, dating is like an interview process. Essentially, we are all looking for the perfect business partner to invest ourselves for the future. Together, you want to compliment each other and avoid problematic situations, like alcoholism. In other words, girls are always thinking ahead and if we see something we don’t like, we run, at least the smart ones do.
LESSON #3: Do the heavy drinking with your buddies. Of course it is perfectly fine if you go out with the boys and do some manly drinking together, via drinks, shots, both or more. When there are six empty beer bottles on the bar on any given Sunday, quite frankly, we can’t judge you.
Yet, if it’s a Friday night in Delray and you have beer goggles on, can’t find your cell phone and are already planning on having your more sober friend drive home, you are not prince charming anymore and should stay away from the possible princess. Trust me, it’ll just lead to disaster.
2 comments:
Where to begin?
1. Don't goto a bar unless you handle getting hit on by (or running into) a drunk person. Sometimes these people travel in groups, so be aware of that possibility as well. You admitted that "you (and your friend) weren't that into them"; ergo if you were into them you might have conversed with them longer whether they were drunk or not. If the only reason you didn't get to know them more was because they were drunk at a bar than that is your hang up.
2. You really have no right to tell someone how much they ought to drink; but I agree that people ought not make asses of themselves whether or not they are intoxicated. The "voice" of this article makes you sound like an oversensitive-judgmental lightweight. I'm guessing that these "drunks" thought they same thing and that they were actually teasing you and not hitting on you.
3. 6 beers? People shouldn't drink 6 beers before attempting to flirt? Um... you're nuts. Some people drink 6 beers before they goto class. I'm not condoning such behavior; All I am saying is that some people can handle their drink more than others. Your advice column (blog) should not be directed to a couple of guys who'll probably never read it. Maybe you should have wrote, "Drinking until you piss your pants and verp (vomit-burp) on your shirt will most likely not give you an advantage in your attempts at macking, wooing, holla-ing, etc.".
Your blog sounds way to preachy. It sounds like your whining about getting teased by a couple of guys at a bar. I think you need a drink, or a couple. Maybe a blunt. You have some valid points, but your delivery is awful. Lets just put it this way; If I were single, I wouldn't offer you a drink. Instead, I would buy you a six pack and tell you to go home and drink it there by yourself and to not come back to the bars until your attitude changed. Huh, now I sound like my 'rents. Jesus!
i agree with anonymous...what's your point? Where are you going with this? If people didn't drink and "mingle" no one would get laid.
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