Annie
He asked, "Is that your purse on fire?"
No one ever told me that college life would include having a stranger pee on my dorm room floor.
All I could think of as my friend sat naked next to me encouraging me to throw up was what a great One Sentence it would make.
Sober, I asked him if most people were drunk when they got their tattoos and, needle poised above my flesh, he explained, "The smart ones are."
We felt bad laughing about the legally blind Bosnian passed out drunk in a pool of his own vomit on the tile near the toilet, but it sure did make one hell of a story.
I don't know if it was the alcohol, the darkness or the rush to put my clothing back on that made me fall onto the cactus.
It wasn't until I was cleaning puke off him that I realized my hero was gone forever, along with his bottle of Jager.
I am going to look at this in a week when its posted and not realize I wrote it.
Thirty seconds before vomiting, the room spinning, vision cloudy, I recited the alphabet backwards and thought, "Well, I'm not drunk yet."
The night I became an uncle I learned to ride a unicycle.
An intoxicated man pointed to a car's license plate and said to me "This chinaman is from Iwo Jima" and when I looked at the license plate it said "IOWA."
There are two kinds of friends in the world: the ones who help you up when you've passed out in a bar and call a cab and the ones that take 'funny' pictures of you.
I knew I was in love with him the night he gave me a ride because I was too drunk to drive myself home to my husband.
I didn't feel as humiliated when he told me that at least six other people puked their guts out at the last house party, but I still made sure to stay sober this time.
We went out to drink, he got drunk and got caught by a teacher.
After twenty minutes of trying to order a p-p-p-pint of larger from the bar with a drunken stammer, I gave in and requested two half's in the same glass!
I don't know if I would have stayed with him all night comforting him while he puked his guts out into the toilet if I'd known that he wouldn't remember it the next morning.
I shouldn't have told her so much truth when she called me drunk at 3 AM.
Once I got drunk and told a good friend, who had a boyfriend, that I loved her.