Call Me When You're Sober

Ernest Hemingway once said, ~ Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.~ Being a person who doesn't drink alcohol you can be considered the proverbial party pooper when you hang around friends who do, but fortunately though for me its those particular friends that don't pressure me to do or make fun of me because I don't. In any case, when it comes to being the sober person among a group of intoxicated people, you experience countless things by either hearing or seeing firsthand that it becomes not only a story to tell him or her the following day, but it also can be considered blackmail material if documented in video or photo form.

Let me ask you this question, are you a totally different person after you have a few or several drinks in you? The effects of alcohol can most definitely turn a reserved person into a wild and carefree person whose inhibitions can/will be lost as your inability to judge what you're doing is either right or wrong. Such possible embarrassing and foolish acts that one may do is saying I love you to everyone including inanimate objects, thinking that you know some type of martial arts to where you want to fight everybody in the room, and thinking that you're the smartest person in the universe that you debate/argue on reasons why stuffed crust pizza is better than thin crust, which I have been a part of many times.

Without a doubt, alcohol is considered a so-called truth serum as you will talk about or reveal things about yourself that you wouldn't necessarily share with others...voluntarily. You truly learn so much about people when they start to spill their guts to you that it comes to a point where its just too much information. Information in which you either find out dirty little secrets they've kept hidden for quite some time or just something that doesn't make any sense at all. If you think about it though, when one begins to open up two things tend to happen which are: #1) sobbing, whimpering, crying and #2) becoming more affectionate to where that person starts hugging you. For the question can be asked of you, are you a hugger, crier, or both?

Personally speaking, of many experiences I've encountered over the years sober there is one that sticks out in my mind and it happened 7 years ago involving an acquaintance/former co-worker. The woman who shall remain nameless was at a party and wasn't even there for at least an hour when we noticed that she was passed out in the corner. Seeing that she was okay, we continued having fun and after 20 minutes we noticed she was gone. She was nowhere in the house until we noticed she was outside in my friend's truck stealing change and putting it down her dress. We got her out of the truck, tried to get her into the house but she got away, and then looked at me and said she wanted to race down the street. Needless to say I won by forfeit being that she passed out after only running three steps.

In retrospect, when it comes to the consumption of alcohol there is one thing that every person shares when he or she is smashed out of one's mind and that is calling somebody very late at night preferably between the times of 12am-3am. It can be from either a friend, a best friend, girlfriend/boyfriend, or an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend. Let me tell you something, having a person call and tell you that they love you and you have no idea who they are at first because you're somewhat half asleep, is a very interesting experience. In the end, when you receive a phone call from somebody drunk or are the person who made the drunk phone call the one thing you will inevitably say or hear is...hang up, go to sleep, and call me when you're sober,which is a song by Evanescence that tends to reflect this thought.