There is an unspoken assumption that men in nightclubs are devoid of any standards or taste when it comes to ‘picking up’. You could weigh three hundred pounds, have broken teeth, an eye patch, a facial scar, no hair and a penis nestled underneath your knickers and you’d still find a guy willing to go home with you.
This is the second part of a two part article on how to avoid drunkenness and squalor on your night out.
There are two ways, of course, that you can approach the matter. How to remain sober, and what to avoid with the following morning in mind.
You are of course familiar with the old cliche that whenever you start to make rules about drinking, tis the first and surest sign that you have a drinking problem. Well, yes and no. Most sane people have their own private traditions that act as a guiding hand during the weekend pub crawl. Drinking prejudices, I call them.
For many of us, our Leavers week was the first introduction that we had to nightlife, partying and heavy alcohol consumption. Some of us remember it with fondness, others less so. There are also those of us who can’t remember it at all. For the young and young at heart, Leavers is indeed a kind of religious pilgrimage and a right of initiation.
Life isn’t about solutions, but trade offs. Nowhere are we better able to analyse this predicament than when we ask ourselves the question of “when”? When is it time to depart the bar stand, or the dance floor? When is it time to exercise self-restraint? When is it time to call it a night?