Hmm...tricky one this...I have many stories but I'm unsure as to which would claim the title of 'The drunkest I've ever been'. If this were to be split into catagories such as 'What's the most drunk you've been and injured yourself' or 'What the most drunk you've been and lost nearly all you've owned' then this would be easy. When I was 20 and had moved to Hertfordshire, I could have filled this thread on my own. The only one I can really gather and present with detail is this:
I'd moved to Herts on my jack, in my late teens, with the intention of forging a career in the IT/Telecommuncations industry. I was living in St Albans, and though i'd been a social drinker for a couple of years, I was in no way prepared for the afterwork drinking culture that I was plunged into. I worked for a marketing company where there was a 'Let's have a couple of beers at lunch and then 10 after work every day' attitude, and as not being one to shirk my alcohol responsibilities, I duly stepped up to the mark each time. One Friday after work I'd gone to the pub knowing that I'd eaten bugger all through the day, and that i
should before embarking upon an epic ale journey. Needless to say, I didn't eat. After about X pints, I decided to stumble the mile home to bed. I woke up fully clothed, covered in mud and grit, and without my keys, wallet or phone. Not good. It was Saturday morning, I had no clean clothes (was v poor at the time), no means of communication, no bank card etc, and it was 11.30am. This meant I had about an hour to get to town before the bank shut; I had no other way of getting money unless I could get into the bank itself (and that's another story
). I started walking up the road towards town, and as I got to the bridge I would have walked under the night before I noticed that there was a roadworks thing on the left pavement. As I approached the 5ft deep hole I noticed some stuff at the bottom, which, lo(l) and behold, happened to be all my possessions! Top 'nana. Went straight back to bed (cos everything was still in my wallet) and ordered a delivery pizza. Praise the Lord.
Maybe I should stay at home...
Beer injuries:
15 - Broken thumb playing Kabaddi at Scouts (thanks to Tommy T)
18 - smashed ball of ankle in Kebab King (dancing on chairs RJS?)
24 (?) - snapped ligament twixt my shoulder blade and my collar bone (apparently it doesn't fix itself
) rugby-tackling G-Unit in the Lynton Tavern 2 days before Xmas. Bloody good tackle....extremely painful result
26 (?) - Fractured cheekbone when jumped upon from behind, when i
thought the wresting had stopped, by a drunken Tommy T (I was drunk too..). Full force of his body, on the back of my head, whilst cheekbone goes straight into the corner of the arm of a sofa with a nice sturdy wooden frame
26th Bday (?) - On way home from the Hog's with the intention of getting changed (having been at work), I fell head-first against the railings when they were tarting up the Whitely Building, and managed to gouge a section of my scalp out. Between there and getting to my house (when I lived on Railway St) I was only saved from falling into the river by an extremely well-placed BBC who caught my hood, thus saving. Kwalitie.