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s/o bars
Like tracy04..... (I can't remember all the numbers!), I ended an engagement and wanted to spend a year or so going wild. I did a pretty good job of it and dated a lot. And spent a lot of time in bars with my friends.
Now that I'm an old married mom, I sometimes wistfully look back on those days... so how long has it been for you since you did the following:
Danced on a bar?
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs?
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you?
Had a stranger buy you a drink?
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)?
I am starting to feel like I need a Night Out. With capital letters.
Now that I'm an old married mom, I sometimes wistfully look back on those days... so how long has it been for you since you did the following:
Danced on a bar?
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs?
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you?
Had a stranger buy you a drink?
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)?
I am starting to feel like I need a Night Out. With capital letters.
Re: s/o bars
What a fun Friday afternoon poll!
Danced on a bar? I danced on the stage of a Dueling Piano Bar for my Bachelorette party in '08
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs? Within the past few months - I love putting the 80's station on while cleaning, and I regularly have my own personal singalong + dance party.
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you? Summer of '98 (I got sober in August that year)
Had a stranger buy you a drink? See above.
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)? Within the first few months of meeting DH in '05.
I adore DH, but I sometimes miss my naughty random hook ups.
I havent danced on a bar since 1999 or 2000
Pour some sugar on me in the past month or so I'm sure :0 I sing along with everything
no drinks from random guys in the past 11 years, or making out with random strangers
old married lady alert: i honestly don't remember if/when any of these things happened!! and i've definitely never danced on a bar because i am a klutz when stone cold sober. drunk cheeky + dancing on bar = ER trip for sure!!
since i can't even answer the poll, i'll leave you with this:
in NYC, there used to be this terribly cheesy 80s club (no word of a lie, called culture club) complete with a multi-level q*bert style dance floor and in a part of the city that is still kinda seedy after dark. to stay with the cheese factor, my old roommate and i had a madonna themed halloween party there in 2001 - you had to come as madonna or one of her boy toys. we drank A LOT, we danced A LOT, i ended up with one of the worst hangovers of my life so all in all, a successful party.
as i'm nursing said hangover in the living room, i notice that my shins hurt. so i ask my roommate and her brother (who joined the madgefest) "why do my shins hurt?"
roommate's bro says: "don't you remember falling off the dancefloor?"
me: "um, no."
and to this day, i still have no memory of the fall. though others do.
Danced on a bar? 2008? Maybe 09, I can't remember, the bar split that night, and we're not longer allowed to dance on that specific bar
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs? This is pretty much a weekend occurrence.
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you? Summer of 2010. However, we do lethal sounding shots on our own, if the night gets to be one of those nights
Had a stranger buy you a drink? This happens quite frequently. Except my favorite time was when we went out last winter, and I wanted to "ice*" one of my friends, and a guy started talking to me, and I told him how I was going to ice someone. And then the bartender went to him first and that MFer iced me!!!
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)? DH and I try to make it back to our dumpster every time we're in that town, which is a couple times a year, for ol' time sake.
*getting "iced" means someone hands you a Smirnoff Ice out of nowhere and you have to get down on 1 knee and chug it. It's very popular among my friends. Usually someone shows up with a 6 pack. One of my BFFs actually mixes them up with regular beer in a large cooler, and when you reach in a grab something (beer roulette or cooler surprise, as we like to call it) and you pull out a Smirnoff, you technically ice yourself and have to drink it, you can't pass it off.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs? 2002. I've had an aversion to it ever since I saw this really annoying girl I knew in college make up a little dance to go along with it.
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you? Probably also at my bachelorette party in 2008.
Had a stranger buy you a drink? 2005, not long before I met DH.
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)? I think it was 2000, outside of a bar in Germany. Man, that makes me feel old...
Baby248 - ETA 1/10/13
Danced on a bar? On Halloween in NYC with my old roommates while DH was up there for work, what a good wife I am
, I am guessing it was 2008
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs? Probably 4 months ago or so at a Legwarmer's concert.
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you? In 2007 it was my birthday and DH and I were in Houston for one night, which happened to be the night that my cousin opened a bar. He instructed his whole staff to make us shots all night and everyone wanted to impress "the boss"....needless to say DH wouldn't take shots for a year after.
Had a stranger buy you a drink? A bar tender gave me a free drink 2 weeks ago, can that count?
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)? When DH and I were on a break in 2002.
We still party hard pretty often and I wouldn't change anything, but I too sometimes miss the crazy single days (the whole 2 months I ever had of them)
Well, I am feeling like a sad sad case right now, but the last time many of these things happened for me was back in college. That was the majority of my drinking/party days, and I've been with DH since 2000 so it almost definitely hasn't happened since then!
Danced on a bar? This I've never done. I am too much of an introvert to do that, even drunk!
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs? At a friend's wedding about 2 years ago. Also sung: various Bon Jovi songs of my youth.
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you? Can't remember for sure, but probably 98-99
Had a stranger buy you a drink? Again, around 98-99
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)? I honestly don't remember
Probably back in college or shortly thereafter. I'm not coordinated enough to do that. I did one get up on a pool table at Buffalo Billiards in Dupont Circle.
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs?
I do this in my car when it comes on my iPod. In a bar, though, not since about 2004.
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you?
Spring 2004. It was probably around the NCAA tournament time because that was the last time I met someone before I met DH.
Had a stranger buy you a drink?
Spring 2004
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)?
Not with DH, back in 2003 or so. With DH, probably back in 2008 or 2009.
Sang along to Pour Some Sugar On Me at the top of your lungs?At my bachelorette party (2009) The band pulled me up to sing with them because of my paraphernalia and there is a hilarious picture.
Did some kind of lethal-sounding shot that some random guy bought for you? About a year ago (again at girl's weekend. A Bomb Pop Shot- smirnoff ice, grenadine and UV Blue Raspberry vodka will separate if poured in careful layers)
Had a stranger buy you a drink? Not very long ago. Someone bought me one on my bday (June 24).
Made out by the dumpsters (or bathroom or by your car or whatever)? I don't think I ever did this...
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