Every night when I go out clubbing, I hear the same conversations from my friends and strangers ready for a big night. It sounds familiar (probably because you’ve said it yourself on occasion), and goes something like this: “Dude, we totally have to get maggot tonight”, “oh my god, I just really want to meet someone hot”, or the ever popular “let’s get absolutely totally f@#%ed up and have an amazing time!”
With so many options for what can become of a night out, it’s a bit like eating out at a buffet: do you eat a modest amount of everything or do you gorge yourself on one amazing meal and feel absolutely sick and disgusting the next day? Here, the question rings loud and clear: in nightclubs where picking up, getting hammered, having great drinks, and dancing the night away are all possibilities, which should be our priority?
Getting smashed
Ah, the obvious one. We’ve all had that night when we’ve just wanted to go out, get blind, and wake up in someone else’s clothes and a broken phone, with no recollection of the night before (no? Just us then…). Drinking excessively can definitely be a priority on a night out, but with that drinking comes great responsibility – or lack of. Everyone has had the mate that is so drunk they can’t make it out of the taxi into the city, or the one who gets you kicked out of every club so the night turns into a big bust. While drunken antics can be amazing, you don’t want to be that friend who ruins everyone else’s night out because you can’t handle your liquor.
Picking up
Across the world, bars and nightclubs are filled with people dirty dancing, chatting up or being chatted up, making out, and that couple on the couches who are grinding on each other a little too realistically. While picking up is awesome (I personally feel a bit like a Spartan who’s conquered a civilisation at the end of it), chasing the pick up can often lead to some uncomfortable, nasty, or disappointing situations. If you pick up with someone who just isn’t your type, you’ll spend the next few days feeling absolutely terrible about it (and copping flack from your friends for it!). If you go out with the intention of picking up and don’t succeed, the entire night can be deemed a failure and you can completely overlook some of the great things that happened – like when your mate stacked it down the stairs.
Having great drinks, and dancing the night away
Hell, we’ve all occasionally wanted a classy drink or two, right? We’ve all also had a night where we wanted to just have a good time on the dancefloor (yes, I know men who want to do this too). Of course, having delish drinks and a good night of shuffling is an ideal situation… however, the bet is that somewhere in your little group, someone wants to do more than just these two. Be it the mate that just broke up with someone and is desperate for a rebound hook-up, or the one who is a lightweight and ends up vomiting in the club, getting you kicked out (and then vomiting outside the club again), hear this: the chances that a group consensus can be reached here is beyond likely.
So really, at the heart of it, the most important thing (and the aim of clubbers) should probably be to just have a good night. Rock up, go wherever the night takes you, and don’t focus too much on trying to make the night into something specific. After all, you never know when your next great drunken night, hook-up, or great cocktail is just around the corner.
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