First Night Out in NYC!

One of the BEST times I ever had drinking was the time that me and my friends randomly decided to go to new york. This was almost two years still fresh from beginning my career in drinking, it was me, Mike and Hoj sitting in a bar in Bayonne.

We had a car bomb or two when all of a sudden someone blurts out that we should head into new york and hit up a couple of bars. In that moment we all agreed to be spontaneous and go for it, i believe we had another car bomb or shot before we were determined and ready. We stopped by McDonald's to try and stem the tide of liquor before it flooded are system (to no avail might i add).

At the time Mike drove around with our blessed treasure trove of liquor, which included the likes of Bacardi 151, everclear and the ever so deadly absinthe (imported from the Czech republic). We bought a couple of bottles of pepsi in an attempt to mask our liquor. We arrived at Newport because it was one of the few places you can leave your car overnight while taking the path train to new york. The added bonus was that Mike had keys to the store he worked at.

We carried a book bag full of liquor into the store and went into the back room, where we mixed our drinks and took our shots of absinthe for good luck. Once we finished our ritual drinking for a good journey we set out every member of the group with at least two bottles to tide us over till we reached NYC.

The path train ride over was amusing as we tried to best each other by drinking the fastest. Needless to say when we stepped out of the path train and made our way into the 'fresh air' of NYC we were beyond hammered. We stumbled around trying to seem at least semi-sober in order to get into any bars or clubs.

Now let me explain this to anyone that has not tried absinthe... the one that we had purchased has a very licorice after taste to it. After a couple of shots you feel very euphoric some would describe it as a 'high' you would get from other drugs. I myself have never hallucinated. But i have gotten high in the past so i can say it does give you that feeling. It's an odd sort of state you feel drunk but stay eerily coherent.

Despite attempts of walking around and trying to 'sober up' we kept drinking out of our water bottles. After walking around aimlessly we decide we definitely need to start drinking more! As fate would have it this lady is running along when she stops and asks where we are going? Hoj resolutely belches out "TAKE US TO LOOOOOOSE WOMEEEEN!" amazingly this line worked as we ran to what we thought was a bar.

To say we were under dressed would be an understatement... it turned out to be some sort of up scale bar/bistro type of place. Apparently it was one of the girls birthdays they invited us to two free shots of grey goose vodka each... till one of the bouncers said we were under dressed and asked us to leave. No problems after all we had free shots!

We left the place laughing that we were asked to leave and decided that we needed to find more bars! I know the abinsthe started kicking in when we started looking at buildings and saying that they were so tall. We hit up a couple of bars but only ordered a drink or two before we went into the next! In particular we went into an Irish pub when on of the patrons stopped Hoj and asked why he was wearing an "England" shirt. Me and mike were too busy ordering drinks to really care but they seemed a bit pissed, so we chugged our Irish car bombs and went on our way.

The last bar we stopped in we decided to get a couple of beers and attempted to sit down on their nice lounge sofas. By some stroke of bad luck hoj managed to find divide in the sofas and slipped right in between fall on the ground and spilling some of his beer on himself. After much laughter we had another drink or two and decided we had to find a way back home.

After being diverted from going home for a few hours (repairs to path trains), we redirected to the nearest White Castle. Mike went to get me some food while i watched over hoj... well i tried at least as the table next to me struck up a conversation. As it so happened i turned just in time to see Hoj throw up all over his fries! Me and mike ushered him into bathroom and left him in there... Eventually it dawned on us that he was in there for quite some time after the people we were talking to were about to leave.

We managed to get in the bathroom to the scene of hoj pants around his ankles on the floor of White Castle, vomit dribbling from mouth.... Me and mike had a great laugh and decided we should get out of there before the clean up crew show up. We barely manage to stumble outside before hoj throws up a few more times. Eventually we made our way to the path train where a passer by comments 'wow and i thought i was messed up' as he points to hoj on the floor.

We manage to get a seat when a tranny sits next to hoj and thinks he is cute, of course me and mike tried to stave it off. All the while trying to talk to girls on the path train. Mike and Hoj got off at newport and i took a bus home, that was our epic night in NYC.

A boy with two faces...

It was around 6th grade if i remember correctly when something happened to me that to this day i'm unsure how exactly it occurred. But for quite some time half of my face was paralyzed, i'm not sure if it was food related or something else. Though i have never been warned against any future problems that may occur.

I remember going into school feeling horrible because i know kids being kids would laugh and not understand what i was going through. Hell me being myself i did not fully understand why it was happening to me. I remember having to put on a patch over my eyes as well as some liquid (because my eye wouldn't fully close) to keep my eye moist.

I faintly remember thinking to myself that it couldn't last forever, even though i had no idea what was afflicting me exactly...