hmmm. my sophmore year of college, before I dropped out........... I was too drunk at the time .. so I can't remember the details except ....
I had gone to a bigass party in a condo complex a block from my apartment. However, the next day, I had an empty 1.75L bottle that used to contain vodka. I remember drinking about 1/3 to 1/2 of it prior to going out, and I know at some point in the night prior to being totally bombed, I went back to my apartment with several other people and did shots shots until that vodka bottle was empty. I then remember going back out ... and thats when my memmory stops from that night. (I estimate that I had about 30 to 35 1.5 oz shots of vodka or 12oz beers total that day over a period since like 4PM until some time between 3AM and 6AM (so my BAL was probably 0.3+ .. which is usually not fatal, but certainly not a good thing)
I also had some bruises and scratches, and there was dirt residue all over my shirt as well as a few tears. Later in the day (after I had somewhat recovered) I went to the football game with a buddy of mine. I wound up running into some frat dudes that broke up a fight the night before.
It turns out I was one of the fighters, though I had no recollection of it. At that time I was VERY concerned that I had potentially hurt somebody, and was extremely apologetic since I don't want to harm anyone unless they deserve it. I was told the other people involved were all OK, and that I didn't do any real damage as I was way way to drunk to stand up straight, let alone aim my fist and throw a good punch, and I was fighting against multiple people at once in my drunken stuper.
I was very very lucky that 1.) I didn't get seriously ill from alcohol poisoning 2.) That nobody else got hurt or injured except possibly some other drunkard with minor bruises 3.) I didn't get seriously injured from fighting, or resisting the fight being broken up 4.) I didn't get arrested 5.) The frat dudes that I ran into at the game didn't want to kick my a$$ 5.) I didn't break anything of value 6.) I managed to find my way home and I woke up in my own apartment and even on my bed 7.) When puking, I somehow never missed the toilet 8.) I still have some functional brain cells
Since then, I have dropped out of college (which IMO was a good thing for me since my drinking went from dangerous/out of control to that of a casual/moderate drinker (that was the very last time that I allowed myself to get drunk .. there have been some times since then where I had drank like 10 or so drinks in a night (usually when travelling for work ... at the bar in the hotel since there's often nothing else to do, and it's entertaining to drink with my boss, my bosses boss, and my bosses, bosses, boss, and even moreso entertaining when I show up to work early the next morning with no signs of a hangover even though I drank double what everyone else did. (10 drinks doesn't really phase me too much, since its always over a period of at least several hours and I have a large tolerance, partly due to my size (275lb) , partly due to the amount I used to drink before). I probably drink about once every 2 weeks currently, and then usually its one beer, sometimes 2 beers, and rarely (about once every 3 or 4 months) 3 or more pints of beer. I have never driven after more than 5 pints of beer ever in my life, that was over a period of about 3 hours. (I leave work around 10, The bar my friends and I hang out at once a month closes at 1am. Its about 5 minutes from work. (according to
http://www.intox.com/wheel/drinkwheel.asp my BAL would be around 0.52 after 5 pints of beer over a period of three hours.) I was celebrating the fact that an interview for a possible promotion had gone really well, and that a LOT of stress was gone. Even though I know for a fact I was well under the legal limit of 0.08, I still felt guilty about driving after drinking. I will probably never drive after that many drinks again, unless I have at least a couple more hours to cool down.
cliff notes
Sophmore year of college (19 years old at the time Happened fall of 1999)
Drank way way way too much
Woke up with bruises
Found out I was in a Fight
Was lucky nobody got hurt and that I didn't kill my liver or something from alcohol poisoning
Learned my lesson ... dropped out of college ... drasticly cut back on drinking ...
Damn I was friggin stupid and irresponsible that night ....
