Bad Night

[Peridan]

Pixie, I officially declare you the winner for awesome stories.

[BattlePixie]

i've led an... interesting life and know more than a few interesting people

[Jaeram]

*sighs* All these stories about wild parties and under age drinking is exactly the reason I am tormented every time I have a birthday with lame '21st birthday' jokes about drinking and partying. I'm sure next years 21st will be the worst so far though. I can't wait to outgrow that 'crazy teenager' stereo type, it has plagued me for too long.

Disclaimer : Jaeram's life is like an after school special devoid of drinking and drugs of all kinds due to PERSONAL moral convictions against personally using them (not religious). He is a highly intelligent human being who does not believe in the use of alcohol or drugs to make a complete moron out of himself, he does that just fine without them. This post may or may not be serious, although it is mostly serious, unless it sounds like I am chastising those who do drink/party, I try not to hold it against other people, I just don't do it myself, other people can do what ever they want, it's their life, not mine.

[Gamling]

Amen (to jeram)

[Jaeram]

*High fives gamling* Say no to drugs and alcohol kids!

[Peridan]

*shrugs* Hey, I'm not making any accusations or anything. And yes, I am a bad person who drinks underage. Lucky for me I'm responsible about it and I usually make good choices (obviously not including the OP).

There is no way to say this without hurting someone's feelings, so I apologize in advance: I get the distinct undertone of disapproval for drinking in this thread, and while it was meant as a light-hearted attempt to get some funny stories out of people, I feel as though instead it's being looked down upon. If you do not have anything nice to say, or anything about a "Bad Night" (and no, it does not have to have alcohol as a facto in it. It could be about anything, like the time your car broke down on a Friday evening with no tow truck in sight, or a camping trip gone awry) please do not give off bad vibes.

I have good grades and a normal life, in which I see fit to have a drink now and then. And I damn well plan on having a beer with dinner every so often. I see no problem with drinking if you're smart about it, but that's not what the thread is about.

Once again, I apologize to anyone offended by this, but please stay on topic. My personal motto:

"To each his own"

[Jaeram]

I get the feeling that post might have been directed at me lol, if it's not, I apologize. I don't really disapprove of drinking, like I mentioned at the end of my post although I don't do it, I'm not going to stop others from doing it, everyone has their own life and I'm not going to judge someone else or stop them from doing it, because I'm not perfect and it's not my place. I also have friends some under aged and some of age who drink and they've been friends of mine for 15+ years, it doesn't stop me from hanging out withthem, even when they're drinking, I just don't do it. I hope I didn't give you a bad vibe either, lol, my post was supposed to be kind of a joke.

I just started seeing stories of under aged drinking, and since my birthday just passed I had been bombarded with lame jokes from family members, friends, class mates, perfect strangers who over heard conversations, about 21st birthday partying and y'know in canada you can drink at 19 *wink wink*and I have a running joke with my friends who do participate in under aged drinking about how they are adding to the stereo type of under age teenagers/young people and drinking. That part probably wasn't that apparent in my post though, lol.

While I have some stories about some 'incidents' you may have already realized that I can be somewhat of a long winded typist, and I feared that the time it would take to explain them in comparison to the ratio of comedy in the end was not worth it lol. 'You had to have been there.'

Sorry if I gave you a bad vibe, I have a 'to each his own' motto as well.... now I just wish that damn ATF and Michigan State legislature would ease up on certain laws and the regulation of certain chemicals to make my fireworks making hobby easier.

Edit : Please continue sharing your stories, I have gotten a few laughs at some of them, especially battle pixies.

[Peridan]

Lol, wasn't just at you Jaeram, but don't worry about it. I just had a nagging suspicion, is all.

On that note, back to the stories!

This one is about a friend of mine, last Halloween. We happened to be at a party, and it was very dark with a strobe light flashing around everywhere. Needless to say, it was hard to make out anything within the house. I was in the corner, nursing a beer and talking to a few friends of mine, when another friend (let's call him Joe Schmoe) runs over. He excitedly points out a girl on the dance floor and asks whether or not she was attractive. Now, I really had no idea, but I took a guess and said she looked fine to me. My other friends agreed and he ran off.

So, I didn't see him again that night, and when I woke up he wasn't there (he was my roommate). So I shrugged, figured he went home with her, and went to check my email. About an hour later he walks in with bags under his eyes and a bloody lip. I asked him what the hell had happened, and all he could say was: "She was a biter." Apparently she had been chewing on his lip the entire night, with no room for sleep.

Shaking my head and laughing, I went to get lunch. I get stopped suddenly by a girl, who tells me that she was the one with Ryan. She asks me to tell him that she has mono, and that she is very sorry.

My buddy Joe was sick for a month, and his lip didn't heal for a week.

Morale of the story: pick girls in the light.

[BattlePixie]

OK, here is a story (or maybe a few short ones depending how it goes ) that doesn't involve alcohol:

I did some infantry training a while back (my military career has been "diverse") and we had been on attack for the last couple days. My platoon was the main effort being supported by platoons on either side and were pushing the whole line through the training area (this is very exhausting work). So when night hits we dig in.

It was stupid o'clock in the morning and it was my turn in the observation post. So i sneak my way out to it, exchange passwords so i don't get shot, and relieve the sentries. I am laying there covered by my ranger blanket (it was just below freezing) and whatever else i could find to keep me concealed. I Had my night vision goggles on and rifle at the ready watching for the enemy force. Suddenly i hear movement behind me and am thinking it can't be my relief because its to early, so i look back and there is this fat little skunk waddling toward me. I lay real still, hoping the skunk will just pass by my position... no luck, it crawls right up on top of me and starts sniffing around. About now i really don't care about the enemy force I just don't want to get sprayed because we still have another week and a half to go before we get back to base

My luck did seem to hold though as the skunk, not smelling anything interesting, waddled up my back and over my head, carrying on it's merry little way.

On another occasion we were in shell scrapes and we get word that tracked vehicles are operating in our area so if they approach our position we had to stand up and flash white light at them so they wouldn't run over us... WTF? How about i take our grid, grab a radio, call range control and make sure the tracks know where we are so they don't run over us... Apparently that was "out of the box" thinking