St.Patty's Day 2006: A Study In... Self Control?
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
**Sorry, this got long, but it gets interesting :O)**
St.P Day Recap:
Ahh Saint Patrick's Day, the international day of drunken fun! I had big plans for this year, but unfortunately they didn't all pan out and at one point there was some moral dilemma. I still ended up having a fun time though!
The original plan was to join up with The Player and his buddy from Cali and possibly do a party bus pub crawl type of thing. Problem is, he disappeared for the day before and the day of SPD. Luckily I knew of Miss Charade's (Mistress of... too long!) group of bar crawlers that would be out perusing the cities!
I messaged MC, but found out that, sadly, she was sick on St.Patty's. However, she directed me to The Cute Paramedic as she was out with others still. I did such and found out they were heading over to the ill MC's place and since it's three blocks away I invited them over for some drinks at my place before going back out on the town.
After some phone connection issues, we did meet up and they (TCP, Skylark and Frat Boy) came over. With the first round of drinks there my St. Patrick's Day officially began! And for the record it was a whiskey diet. I know, so original. Bite me! Anyway, we enjoyed our drinks along with some Reno 911. After the round we decided it was time to head out on the town again and went to O'Gara's.
O'Gara's has a huge St. Patty's Day celebration, they have the main bar area, the "Garage" area where their concert stage is, and then also have an big tent outside with live music as well. Obviously this place gets to be a bit of a zoo so we wanted to make sure to hit it early before it was too terrible there. We squeezed in and had a round there. We also met our first uncomfortably friendly drunk. I'm not sure what she was carrying, but it resembled a very long, very skinny plastic funnel and had a dowel rod in it. We had one and a half rounds a there and decided the we had enough of the crowds there.
After checking in with Raelun and MC's Consultant so see if they were going to meet up we decided to head over to Minneapolis (I should state that Frat Boy was sober-cab) and eventually make our way to The Otter Stop Inn for some Karaoke. On the way though, there would be a stop at Mac's Industrial Sports Bar for cheap $3 Guinness and Reach-Arounds (the drink you pervs!). Sometime in here is when self-control started to become an issue, but I'll get back to that later. We had a round of Reach-Arounds and I had a couple Guinness as we all split some fries.
Next up was a couple blocks down the road to Otter's. This place is a little hole in the wall, but it's fun. Karaoke there doesn't mean one person up front singing, no. It means basically anyone who knows the song singing it, but that one person has a microphone. ;O) We drank, we sang and were quite merry! Definitely made for a good St.Patty's Day! So after they finally started to tire (this group had been going since 10am, but I had to work, boo!) we called it a night at about midnight. FIB dropped off TCP, Then me and that was the end of the night with them!
Right here is here you should be asking yourself: "Midnight??? Chief Slacker went home at MIDNIGHT? On SAINT PATRICK'S DAY?" Yes, I really did go home at midnight. But that doesn't mean I stayed there :O)
About 12:30 G-Spot calls wondering what I'm up to and when she found out that I was home already we formulated a plan to continue St.Patty's day! Her sister and a friend were in town, so I picked them up and we headed to downtown Minneapolis to The Local "An Irish Pub". We got there, had a couple drinks and closed the bar down :O) It was fun to meet the sister, I recall even asking G-spot permission to hit on her, but found she had a boyfriend. heh. Anyway, yeah went home, played some drunken World of Warcraft and went to bed about 5. Now that's a pretty dang good Saint Patty's day. Yup.
Damn You, Morals. Damn You:
So? What's this self control problem? I mean it's Saint Patrick's day, usually the only moral dilemma one should have is whether drinking green American crap beer is really in the true Irish Spirit or not. No, no, this one ran a little deeper than that and the temptation had a name: Cute Paramedic.
Previous to Saint Pat's I had been informed by Miss C that TCP had been dating someone new and, though he was quite a bit older, was really happy with him. When it turned out to be a couples type situation since it was Frat Boy and Skylark, then me and TCP I kinda put the guard up. I mean, it's not like I had liked her quite a bit or anything and that and had a weird end either.
So yeah, we had been having quite a bit of fun, bar hopping and whatnot. TCP stated at several times that she missed me and that we need to hang out more. I of course prodded her stating that I wasn't the one you disappeared. On the way over to Mac's I brought up that she was dating someone and we decided we should still hang out. She declared to the car that we had the
"It's Ok." talk. Heh.
Anyway, yeah, at Macs though, the morals started to come into play. At one point she asked me to lean in to tell me something but instead of speaking when I was next to her, there was nibbling of the ear. Nice move. WAIT!
Umm, Hi!
"Be good!!" Said me. She apologized and we went back to munching on fries and Guinness. There were several other points a Mac's as well where there was a hug that turned out to have ulterior motives on her part and several attempted kisses. Turns out this was just a warm up though.
We headed over to Otters and the real trials began.
It started with a bunch of the same, the not so innocent hugs and also a couple lectures from me about how she was dating someone. If she wanted to do that, she shouldn't have stopped dating me! Unfortunately this didn't have much effect and the fact that I was drinking on a fairly empty stomach did not help things either. There were pecks here and there and a couple times where she demanded that I kiss her. When reminded she had a boyfriend the eventual answer became "So?" Holy wrong and completely unhelpful answer batgirl.
Unfortunately soon after the alcohol kicked in during one lecture and when she interrupted it by making out with me I suddenly forgot the lecture and remembered how entirely fun for about 10 seconds until the brains kicked back in. Again I had to use the damn brakes. This is getting old!! After applying the brakes I was successful in playing the "dodge and hug" game for a good while. I figured her nibbling the ear was a lot less morally fuzzy than making out.
Then she grabbed me right in the Moral Dilemma.
Yes, by that I mean there was goosing of appendages she should not have been visiting in much the same way she did back in the post linked though "entirely fun" above. I think just about any guy would agree, once she goes there, she better be prepared to finish what she started. I believe my comment was "Ok, you so don't wanna go there, because that will make me want to do things we definitely can't be doing."
Luckily soon after it was decided to go, and also luckily I was not driving or I'm quite certain this could have ended in a morning full of regrets. Instead it just ended with some drunkish texts.
It does make me wonder about her relationship and how happy she really is. The age difference always makes me wonder. In all the relationships I've seen the younger girl dates the older guy because he's more established in life and they're attracted to the stability and supposed maturity. Ends up though he's dating someone much younger because, really, that maturity isn't there or he wants to "daddy" the girl. In this case a 15 year age spread really makes me wonder. But, alas, it's really not for me to worry about, so I won't.
Anyway, yeah. I have had to use these brakes way to often, but it's definitely for the better. Hopefully one of these days a girl will come along where the brakes won't need to be used anymore.
Until then, Keep slackin'!
posted by Chief Slacker @ 1:07 PM,
3 Comments:
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At Tue Mar 21, 07:42:00 PM,
OzzyC said...
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My position (no pun intended)? You shouldn't be hanging with this chick. You'll get laid, but there won't be anything lasting, and based on everything you've posted, you're looking for something at least semi-permanent.
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At Sun Mar 26, 07:48:00 AM,
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Yeah, being deathly ill sucked, just a little. Sorry that my girl (TCP) is sending off all the inconsistent vibes... I'm thinking you don't want to go drinking with her too often. BUT you should definitely come to the Scarleteen benefit at Bryant Lake Bowl Monday night to see me belly dance! And, you can meet my new guy and tell me if you think he's too old too =P.
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At Sun Mar 26, 01:32:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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OzzyC - I wasn't looking to get laid. heh. And yeah, not looking for a relationship with her either. SO I hope I'm safe on both counts.
MoC - Well I'm glad you're better! It wasn't really inconsistent vibes, just way to much temptation. I'm quite certain it had a lot to do with how much she had to drink. I'll have to come and see ya since i missed the ren fest dances. :O)