Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Cringe
It seems to me that alcohol never mixes well with anything except more alcohol. Alcohol and driving, alcohol and walking (bush-diving anyone?) and, of course, alcohol and hooking up. Also known as “putting on your beer-goggles.” To be perfectly frank, everyone knows that drinking and hooking up leads to deep regret the morning after. Firstly when we face our friends whom either greet us with smiles and taunts or laugh in our faces for weeks after. Secondly, to add insult to serious injury, you have to face that person sooner or later on our conveniently small campus. It can go either two ways. One: you both look at the ground and pick up your pace after exchanging pinched smiles. Two: you greet each other and exchange minute talk (a smaller version of small talk), cut your losses and vaguely wave whenever you walk past one another for the next four years. It doesn’t help that every time you look at that person you imagine your drunken ramblings together about “deep” issues concerning life and the crazy dancing that makes you cringe so much your friends ask if you have just had a stroke. It seems drinking and hooking up is not a good life choice. However, if you do choose to go down that road be prepared for the aftermath.
Labels: cringe, drunk, hooking up, ramblings