Story archives - tag: "alcohol"

Madelin

I blacked out on the futon and woke up to a cop shining a flashlight in my eyes and telling his partner who my parents are.

tags: alcohol highschool busted [add]

2011-08-10 17:35:22 / Rating: 280.25 /

BlessingInDisguise

The only reason I don't feel guilty about drinking at age 14 is because I helped save a family from their house burning down while on my way to the store to get beer.

tags: fire beer alcohol guilt help [add]

2010-04-13 14:09:43 / Rating: 447.75 /

Selwyn

The day I finally stopped drinking was when my son showed me the bruises I never knew I gave him.

tags: parenthood alcohol abuse [add]

2009-11-06 14:29:01 / Rating: 832 /

MK

While you were at camp finding God, I was doing shots at a house party.

tags: religion lost love alcohol I miss you [add]

2009-08-06 14:51:00 / Rating: 420.25 /

Ruby Soho

Apparently, getting absolutely smashed, calling him between pukes in the public bathroom, falling asleep on the street and waking up in his bed filled with mud was romantic only on my side.

tags: ex-boyfriend drunk alcohol fake hope [add]

2009-06-14 17:29:06 / Rating: 324.25 /

s. c. amory

I realized that I was placating my drunken mother the same way I used pacify to my drunken college friends.

tags: college alcohol childhood mother [add]

2009-06-02 08:29:47 / Rating: 383.75 /

inkedSolace

My boss told me I needed to quit drinking so I told him he should stop having sex with prostitutes.

tags: alcohol awkward relationships jobs didn't get fired [add]

2009-04-14 16:32:00 / Rating: 692.25 /

JOH

The past seven days have included alcohol poisoning, acquaintance rape, isolation from my friends, confessions to me about childhood abuse, and lots of cereal for dinner.

tags: abuse alcohol fights cereal cynicism [add]

2009-04-03 13:26:24 / Rating: 408.5 /

SHS LukeE

After the accident, still in a drunken stupor, he asked the cop how the police got there so fast, to which the officer replied, "You hit MY car."

tags: SHS humor police alcohol [add]

2009-01-02 12:56:54 / Rating: 877.25 /

Lo

My best friend looked at me and said, "My mouth tastes like Spring Break."

tags: humor college alcohol party best friend [add]

2008-12-04 13:19:40 / Rating: 524.5 /

aunt d

When my 8-year-old niece came home from her friend's birthday party and assured me that she did not drink any beer, I knew something was very wrong with our culture.

tags: humor childhood alcohol family children [add]

2008-09-11 20:04:35 / Rating: 909 /

jfirth

Thirty seconds before vomiting, the room spinning, vision cloudy, I recited the alphabet backwards and thought, "Well, I'm not drunk yet."

tags: drunk drinking alcohol [add]

2008-02-20 16:25:47 / Rating: 583.75 /

Dormouse

Puking up that champagne was really my head ridding my life of 2007.

tags: happy new year throwing up drinking alcohol 2007 [add]

2008-01-01 11:53:39 / Rating: 500 /

Megan F.

I realized I was smarter than him when I was eight and learned what alcohol was.

tags: childhood alcohol [add]

2007-12-19 11:10:13 / Rating: 450.75 /

Rachel

You should have seen the looks on their faces when I, the girl who abhors underage drinking, announced that one of my goals in life is to try Canadian beer.

tags: humor alcohol college friends [add]

2007-08-28 23:05:44 / Rating: 469.25 /

Juliana

One of the most humiliating moments of my life happened in front of my favorite musician, and the song he wrote about that moment is on his new album.

tags: alcohol more alcohol bad judgment falling down crying humor [add]

2007-08-06 17:08:14 / Rating: 611 /

Danimal

My teetotaling harks back to the ripe age of 13 when, in a fit of uncontrollable giggling, I was ordered to a guest bedroom so they could continue the Passover seder.

tags: drinking alcohol childhood seder [add]

2007-07-11 13:02:00 / Rating: 504.25 /

Avoidance

Invariably, I take the time between her first (unanswered) phone call and the second to sober up enough to form coherent sentences.

tags: alcohol family phone call [add]

2007-06-19 17:15:16 / Rating: 471.25 /

M

My worst Valentine's day was probably not the year that my grandmother died, but instead the year my alcoholic roommate threw an anti-Valentine's-day party that ended with several guests in tears after he verbally abused them and stomped on a box of chocolates.

tags: valentine's day alcohol party chocolate misery [add]

2007-04-05 16:53:44 / Rating: 419.25 /

James

Just one thing: never let a drunk man try to open a can of lager with a knife.

tags: injury ouch knife alcohol [add]

2007-03-07 09:41:28 / Rating: 520.75 /

Veronica

It's not the fact that i was written up for 'underage alcohol consumption' that bothers me, it's the fact that for once, I hadn't had any at all.

tags: coincidence alcohol college [add]

2007-02-12 12:35:08 / Rating: 531.75 /

KAOS

It's not always the best idea getting drunk with your colleagues, but it's interesting!

tags: party alcohol work [add]

2006-12-10 13:16:00 / Rating: 464.5 /

Peabodie

After serving liquor to alcoholics all day, I realised that I am, in fact, a bad person.

tags: realization alcohol work [add]

2006-12-05 14:32:37 / Rating: 566 /

Ory'hara

My lover told me that she was drunk and wouldn't talk to me because of that, so I went to get drunk myself.

tags: love alcohol sad [add]

2006-10-16 12:53:56 / Rating: 468.25 /

Ory'hara

I once loved a girl more then anything in the world, and then she started drinking.

tags: love alcohol [add]

2006-10-16 12:53:51 / Rating: 456.5 /

cmonk

I was lost into a world of abuse, sex, and alcoholism at the ripe old age of three and it went downhill from there until my first day of sobriety some 20 years ago.

tags: childhood abuse sex hope alcohol [add]

2006-10-05 12:55:20 / Rating: 627.25 /