Hungover on a Friday afternoon

This post is going to be sketchy since i can't really remember the order of events or all the random people i ran into last night. Plus being as smashed as an indian on pay day doesn't help in recalling events.

Cast of Characters:

Ryan Smith

many more that i'll mention as i go along

Yesterday was the last day in my long university career. Its hard to believe i spent more time there then high school. I wrote my last exam and i need to get crazy and a thursday night was just the cure. I had been hoping many more people would join in on the debachary but everyone has these things called jobs and had to work in the morning. My only saving grace was Ryan since he's got this fucked up schedule where he is on 4 days then off 4 days. This was the beginning of his off time so he wanted to indulge in some thursday night specials as well.

The night started at my place. The 4th game in the oiler series was going on and i decided to pick up ryan at the first intermission. Along the way i tried to round up some troops but was only denied with responses like, "i gotta work tomorrow, and i'm tired" - jessie and " i'm not gonna let you sucker me in today so i can feel like shit in the morning" - marco. In calling marco i accidently called korie who was, is still in vegas. He messaged back saying he was watching blue man group. Who does that? This is a hockey town, go find a place and watch the game, its vegas, the sports betting capital of the world i'm sure they have the game on somewhere. But hey, it WAS the blue man group, i'd check them out if i had a chance too. We end up at our usual liquor store and ryan says he want's something easy drinking. That can only mean bitch beer. So we decide on a 15 pack of bud light. It also came with a free NHL hat too, they ran out of oilers hats naturally, so ryan pick up a leafs hat.

The second period had already started and by then the oilers had evened it up at 2. We both had a bunch more beer i showered and the oilers lose, to cut a long story short. I get my bro to drive us to whyte. Whyte at this point looks pretty busy with the end of exams and disappointed oiler fans plus the regular thursday night crowd i see its going to be a good night. We get dropped off outside bar wild. Not really a line but we avoid that place like we avoid Rum. We continue down the street and decide to check out Filthy Mcnasties. That place sure is nasty. There was no one inside but i had to pee so bad and it was the closest place. I came out and had a jagerbomb with ryan. The place was pretty dead so we left for the next place. We walked by squires and the line was huge, i don't know why they started lining up everyone outside it creates this huge traffic problem on the sidewalk and plus people in line are drunk and people walking by are drunk and stupid shit starts happening.

The key to getting people into your bar are signs outside telling passing people like me and ryan what kinda deals are inside. Pretty much any bar that had a sign and a decent special we went into. The first such place was thirsty turtle. The sign said 3.00 high balls and 1 dollar kokanee glasses. 1 dollar? Shit, we were in there. Unfortunately they were changing the keg on the kokanee so me and ryan did a shot of Jose gold. At this point Lisa texts me and tells me she is at wolley bulleys. So we decide not to wait to the kokanee and head there. Along the way we see another sign, this time for the attic. 3 dollar everything. We climb those fucking stairs and to no surprise its dead inside. 2 redbull and vodkas and off we go.

We round the corner at the strat hotel and are surprised to see that there is not much of a line at wolleys. Outside ryan and i engage in some small talk with 2 asian chicks. They were asking us about where we had been that night and we told them a bunch of different places. They both expressed interest in going to the strippers. This caught mine and ryans interest. They talked about how they enjoyed looking at hot girls, and how they liked boobs. They kept saying they love how they feel and "they are like so round" said one of them as she grabbed and carressed her own. After a brief chat we got inside and never saw them or their breasts again.

Once inside i spotted Lisa right away. I didn't recognize any of the people she was with her boyfriends friends i guess. Ryan got me some rye and coke, specials here were 3 dollar hiballs. I see a trend.... At a nearby table i spot Allyson. She is someone i "saw" for a short time last summer. Korie and Denny are always busting my balls asking me " you get your dvd's back yet?" assholes. This requires some background story, i lent her some movies back in september and that was the last time i had seen her or my dvd's. Over the next couple months we maintained contact through email and messenger but towards feburary we kinda stopped talking. At no point did i ever give up on getting my movies back, i still have her home number (she had broken her cell a while back, dropped it in the toilet) and i could have shown up on her door step and demanded them back but that would have been the asshole thing to do, but as some of you know i am that asshole. I digress, so we chatted for like 20 minutes talked about what we have been up to and such. She is supposed to call me today but i'll report later about how that goes.

At this point i get a drink for myself and ryan. We recognized the bartender Alicia. She used to work for mixer, she is friends with chris, and aquaintanced with us. She said she started at wolleys a month ago, i asked her to make me something good. Sh gave me a rum and coke. I dispise rum and ryan and i could bearly choke it down. Terrible, just terrible. Lisa was there with some other people as well and turns out i know them two. Angie, who went to o'leary and graduated with some of us, and Benji. Both of them were on my vollyball intramurals team, the result was a loss in the final to a team in a higher division then us. Fuck and i wanted a campus rec shirt too. Well they decide to go to iron horse so they leave and ryan an i tell them we'll meet them there in like 5, we still had those shit rum and cokes to drink. We finish our drinks and head to ironhorse and see lisa and the rest of them approaching behind us. Turns out iron horse isn't even open on thursday. Weird i could have sworn the bartender from pats post that was making us all those damn fine drinks told me there was a special on thursday for those tasty martinis.

We head back across the street and i see i guy holding a mop and another guy holding a foldable chair. I as the guy to hit the other guy while he is moping the sidewalk and he obliges. The result was the first pic in the post. We then go to back room vodka bar. Another stop that can be attributed to the sign on the side walk. Inside its moderately busy. As i piss the guy next to me says there are 2.25 shots of tequila. Sweet i'm game. I offer one to ryan but he declines i give it to benji instead. We leave, ryan has a bitter taste in his mouth and it wasn't the shit kokanee he was drinking, it was the fact that the bartender mischarged him for that shit kokanee.

We continue west down whyte and i see a girl that was in my vollyball class, she drunkenly hugs me, i barely spoke to her in class and didn't know her name, but you know drunk people. From across the street Lisa suggests that we go to thirsty turtle, maybe they finally got that keg connected and i can get some dollar beer. We go in and turns out no more beer. We get some 3 dollar highballs instead. Ryans sees one of his buddies from fire fighting school and decides he'll meet us at the next bar later. Little did i know that would be the last that i saw ryan for the night.

The next stop was the one, there was no one inside. Probably like 15 people. Don't know why we were there. I did have an interesting conversaion with some guys about football. One guy was a st louis fan and they were arguing about what team was better the rams when warner ran it and faulk was at his peak, or the colts from the last couple seasons. In my opinion i think the rams but only because they won a super bowl and the whole indy thing last year about going undefeated was probably more because of a softer schedule then how good they were. Lisa and i left her friends there and decided to get ice cream. I don't remember how ice cream came up but we both wanted it. We walked to macs and Lisa bought me a drum stick with maple flavoured icecream. You can see her ear her's above. As we walk back to the busier part of whyte this homeless guy asks us for money. Feeling generous Lisa hands him a five and i give him whatever i had in change in my pocket like 3 bucks or so. I felt i did my good deed for the night and decide more drinking is in order. Unfortunately we never did manage to get into another bar that night. We never went back to the one and decided to go back to wolleys, Benji and the others would meet us there. Inside macs i got a call from a very drunk Kim, she is Eptons long time girlfriend. We told her to meet us at wollys and she said she would come. As we round the corner at strat Lias gets a call telling us to wait for them, somehow they had ended up behind us. I decide to sit on the sidewalk, but a girl on the bench slides over and offers me a seat. She on the bench with her friend having a cigarette. I don't remember their names but Lisa might. We talked about the usual stuff, what do you do, where have you been tonight etc. Usually if you start talking to a girl and she has a boyfriend she will let you know within 2 minutes. One of them dropped one of those " oh my boyfriend......" lines so i knew i shouldn't try anything with her. They offered me and lisa some of their cigarrette. Lisa seemed like she needed a cigarette everywhere we went. Kim called and turns out she was across the street. I asked her to wave her hand in the air so i could see her and i did the same, its kinda funny seeing someone wave across the street when you are on the phone with them. She came and sat down with us. The two girls decided to leave. I thought the one without the boyfriend was cute and Lisa agreed. As she left we told her that we both thought we was hot she waived at us and crossed the street.

Benji and lisa's other friend come and and we all try to get back into wolley bullys but i guess at this point they weren't letting people in. We turn around and go to funky pickle instead. My pizza had some sort of sausage on in, i wish they had the spinnich pizza but no such luck. Outside i spot some people that were in my class that wrote that last exam with me earlier in the day. One girl Jess, i was familier with, we were in a bunch of classes together but never really talked up until now. I guess when you are drunk people will talk to everyone. Turns out she is talking a year off and is going back to do her PHD in marketing. Don't think i could handle another 2-3 years of school. I always had a small crush on her but even in this state and at this point ( i would never see her at school again) i couldn't do anything about it. Lisa offered to go over and talk to her but i denied her, that would make me look like even more of a pussy. I call ryan at this point and he is at squires. I tell him we are leaving and he should come meet us if he want's a ride with us, he tells us to leave without him. He would later call me and not leave a message the mesage center said it was at like 3am, my phone was dead by that time anyways. We make our way back to lisas car and before i get in i take a piss the toyota car deadership trailer.

The ride home was a blur of shit sean paul and some other stuff i didn't recognize from lisas speakers. I don't remember what time i got home around 3 i think. I woke up this morning knowing the next 2 nights will be more of the same.