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March 07, 2005
The Thirst
There’s a certain stage of, um, inverse sobriety, let’s call it, where I’ve had three or four drinks, and my short-term memory starts to not work so good. It’s at this point I usually slow right the hell down and consume water for the rest of the evening (I believe the term you’re looking for at this point is ‘Light-weight’). Or at least I presume that’s what I do; it’s a little hazy.
It all started with working late in work, then going out for a drink with the work crowd afterwards. I knew there was little chance at that point of my getting out to the dogs in Harold’s Cross for my friend’s birthday, but as they were going to be in town afterwards I knew it would all work out somehow.
Drinks with work people can be a bit tricky as, generally speaking, I don’t know who knows I’m going out with somebody in work (she was on a bus, heading home for the weekend), and who doesn’t. Most of my friends at work know at this stage (it has been over two years) but there’s always one person I assume knows who (deep breath) doesn’t know what it is I know they don’t know, you know?
I hope my boss doesn’t know.
Four pints later and the short-term memory failure is starting to occur. The rest of the night takes place in the style of one question leading on to several more, like the mythical head-spawning Hydra: How am I going to get into town? Why am I in the back of this car? Is that my workmate’s boyfriend driving? How did I get to the top of Camden Street? When did I buy these crisps? I hope I paid for them. Who ate all my crisps? How did I find this pub that has all my friends in it? Who bought me this drink? How did it get to be 2am? Is this my Nitelink, and how did I get on it, anyway? When did I put my headphones on? How did I get into bed? When did I send my girlfriend all those text messages?
Ah yes. Those text messages. The less said about those, the better.
Posted by Oliver at March 7, 2005 12:40 PM
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