The typical objective of clubbing is to somehow get so wasted that you forget your name but can still function enough to keep you from getting kicked out. That’s usually not what happens because you start helping yourself to the bar, but whatever, point is we all think we can have our cake and eat it and aside from a drunken romance that is all you want from a Saturday night.
Unless you are all cool to drink, and not all too stingy to pitch into a cab fare, there will always be a designated driver for the night. A lot of us have done it-either reluctantly or with no hesitations-and it comes with a stereotype along the lines of:
Maybe you’re wondering why many of your friends and acquaintances and people who usually are down for getting cRunNK have been opting to ‘stay-in’ and ‘have a quiet one’ these past few weekends. Opposite month perhaps? Daylight saving?
Whether it’s part of your new years resolution, or your car has once again been dubbed taxi, saying no to alcohol is one of the hardest obstacles faced by the human race on a weekly basis. Cider and daiquiri’s, pink bubbly glasses, whine me and dine me, bring gin and tonics- these are a few of our favourite things.