When I Was Drunk

January 10, 2023

While at university in the early 1980s, when I was in my early 20s, I attended a fraternity party as a Pledge to that fraternity in a dorm room. The fraternity president's girlfriend gave me five shots of Kamikaze (vodka, Triple Sec, and lime juice) and told me that as a Pledge, I had to drink them in 15 minutes. So ... !!! Anyway, about 10 minutes after I finished drinking the fifth shot, I was seeing double and was having the need to throw up. I see two doors when there was only one, so I stagger in that direction. I bump into a stolen, 9-feet-tall No-Parking sign which falls over and causes a bird cage with a bird inside to go flying across the room. I go out of the fire exit (no alarms) and start throwing up in the bushes on my hands and knees. A security guard then opens the fire-exit door and says, "Oh, you're throwing up, OK," and walks away. I give him a wave with my left hand to let him know that I am OK. I finish throwing up and then go back to the party, where I am informed that the bird is OK. I ask, "What bird?" I was then informed of what exactly happened right before I left the room. I was accepted into the fraternity and even served on our chapter's Executive Board as Recording Secretary.