A.K.A ‘Welcome to the Thunderdome’.
It’s one of those nights. You’ve swilled a toxic mix of Gordon’s, goon and God knows what, and you’re in one of those dark drunken murky hazes where the world is sifting through your brain like a bad (is there a good?) episode of Just Shoot Me.
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,
When the final set of the night begins to spin and you’ve yet to receive attention from the one-and-only you’ve been stalking all night, it can be all too easy to give up hope and lower that bar, knock back another drink and settle for the company of a contender you just know you’ll regret in the morning.