Remember kids, drinking and driving is bad!
Having tried it Thursday night, I feel compelled to pass the message along not to ever try it. My boss and my other boss are getting married in a couple weeks and the bachelor party is this weekend. He's in New Orleans to celebrate, and as such, he left yesterday morning, meaning he and one of my other bosses wasn't going to be at work. As such, all of us went down to 6th street to celebrate Thursday night. I didn't really want to go, as I find 6th street boring and I don't like noisy bars, but I went anyway because everyone wanted me to go. We all went to Logan's had some drinks and shots. I tried to take it easy, but everyone kept buying me drinks and I kept reluctantly accepting. It was particularly bad because I ate a very light dinner just before, and I was dead tired having gotten the usual 4 hours of sleep. Anyway, it was kinda fun. I finally left at around 12:30am and since I drove there, I had to drive back. It was one of the poorest judgement calls I've ever made and I knew so doing it, but I did it anyway. Fortunately I wasn't drunk enough to be a serious danger to myself or others, but if I had gotten pulled over I might have been in trouble. I was mostly just kinda woozy and I had some trouble focusing my eyes, but other than that I was able to drive fine, it just required a little more concentration than usual. It mainly just bothered me that I let myself get into that situation in the first place. The funny part though was that the next morning, everyone showed up an hour late to work and was a zombie the whole day. I woke up an hour and a half late, and as I was on my way to work, I got a phone call from my boss. I was thinking "oh crap, he's probably wondering where I am." As it turned out, he was just calling to let me know that if I got to work any time soon, I wouldn't be able to get in because no one was there at the time so the door is locked. I got to work at 9:50 and everyone showed up at 10, so it worked out pretty well. I had a surprisingly productive day despite being the tiredest I've ever been in my life. I finally called it quits at 3:30 and came home and passed out for 4 hours, only to wake up and still feel extremely tired. Now I remember why I was against drinking for so long.
