Don’t you hate it when you’re on a night out, having a great time without a care in the world, when *gasp* disaster strikes and suddenly your whole night is basically ruined? Just think of the awful possibilities… Your phone has died, you’ve lost your friends and you’re stranded all alone in a dark club with seizure-inducing lights.
Alcohol can do strange things to a person. Depending on both the individual and the amount consumed, it can bring out emotion, rage, and perhaps worst of all, a feeling of invincibility. The latter will often result in us acting on ideas that seem like a good idea at the time, but in actual fact they do a lot more harm than good,
I have a friend who was born with a special gift. No, it’s not two penises (what?). It’s better. He was blessed with the enviable ability to be able to drink as much as he wants, without any consequences. Actually, there was that sexual harassment charge, but for the purpose of this article I’m talking about the dreaded hangover. He just doesn’t get them.
Everyone utilises pre-drinks, also known as ‘pre’s’ before a night out to achieve a different goal. The general idea is to get a little bit of a buzz before the night begins, but I definitely know some people whose thinking is more along the lines of, ‘I want to be smashed by the time I get out of the cab’.
I’m not usually one to offer myself up as the ‘deso’ driver. But after realising I was rostered on at work for 9am Sunday morning, and subsequently mentally drafting up a pros and cons list of whether it was even worth going out or not, like any respectable Uni student I got bored of using my brain and reluctantly decided to get my responsibility on.