Very cool first time drinking story, DoctorSoft! You reminded me of my first time drinking, haha.
Basically, it was my first night at Morehead State, I was 17-years-old, and I'd managed to click with one of my roommates and her friend on the first night, two nights before classes started.
On my first night, they invited me to a party - I'd never been to an actual party-party; I was way to busy with drama, volleyball, softball, basketball, volunteering for an environmental organization, and all of that stuff, so my out of school social life wasn't especially substantial.
I offered to drive, as I'd never drank before in my life, and my roommate and her best friend (who I later dated, but that's not exceptionally important to this story) were about to pile into my car, when I actually decided to say why I was driving.
I was like, "Yeah, I've never actually drank before, so I'll go to the party, but I'm not going to drink because I just...don't. But it's cool that we get to socialize."
At this point, the two girls laughed, and my roommate said, "Is your car an automatic? Because I will totally drive if you promise to drink for the first time with us."
I was wary, but told her yeah, and we all got into my car. At the party, they had five fifths of Admiral Nelson, and I really was concerned. I had no idea what being drunk was like! We started playing "High Card, Low Card" and I was awful at it. Before I really knew what was happening, I'd had close to a dozen shots.
Now, I'm not an exceptionally large person, but I had been seated this entire time, and wasn't really feeling much of anything - aside from an increased desire to talk to everyone, and a need to pee.
I said, "Dude, why do people even drink? I just feel happy and talkative - this isn't impairing at all!" and everyone just smiled knowingly at me. Then I was like, "Dude, where's the bathroom - I need to pee.." and started to stand up.
Then, it all hit me, and I face-planted on the card table.
I didn't puke that night, but I did learn what getting drunk was like. And I also smoked pot for the first time ever that night - although because of that night, I was convinced that tongue was always involved in shotgunning.
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