Rat Man
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My first time was when I was sixteen. Believe it or not I was with my family when it happened. People were generally more liberal about drinking back then. I could get served in many bars when I was just sixteen. Anyway, this was a Republican Club picnic at Atco Lake. We weren't Republicans but it was all the clams, corn on the cob, and beer you could consume for ten bucks a head so we were there. It was Mom, Dad, little sister Donna, and oldest sister Marilyn and her family, and I. No one cared if the older kids drank beer so Donna and I helped ourselves. It was Piels Beer, a Brooklyn brew. It's pretty much your standard cheap American beer if you've never had it. Donna had nine. She was fourteen at the time and got blitzed. I remember calling her a lightweight. I had twenty seven. I got plastered. One of the things I remember was entering an egg toss with my sister Marilyn. I kept bumping into the other contestants waiting in line and dropped and broke my egg before the contest even started. Eventually I crapped out on the beach. My little nieces, Julie an Millie, began dancing around me chanting "Uncle Gary's drunk, Uncle Gary's drunk!" If I could have moved I would have smacked their little arses but I was incapacitated and they knew it. Finally all of the many dozens of clams, (I ate like ten men back then) ears of corn, and twenty seven Piels all came back up. Ugh! Luckily I was laying on the beach so it was easy to bury the mess. Anyway that was my first real drunk. This was followed several months later by my Santana concert debacle written about in another thread. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson but there were many other instances of drinking to access in my life. Eventually, in my mid forties it just stopped feeling good. I gradually stopped drinking completely. So what was your first rip snorting drunk like?
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