Drunk dialing
So you have that one gal who, if you could just get the guts, might give you a bit of time. Yet, somehow you can't move the relationship from buddy-buddy to lover-lover.
After a night of beers with the boys, you call her. It's late, but not too late, and you bet she might want to come over and "hang out" or "watch a movie" or whatever it is you've done before (like legitimately hang out, watch movies, and such). Though this time you could also make out some.
Personal experience with this type of situation says this: don't do it. If the person is not someone who you would call while you're sober for the reason that you're calling while buzzed, it's a terrible idea.
I've had a couple drunk dials over the years, and they generally end up in catastrophe of some sort or another. Sometimes it's immediate, like when she says to never call her again, particularly in a drunken stupor. Other times it's long-range, like the girl who you know wants you that you keep blowing off until sometime when you're half-cocked. Then you call her, validate her previously unrequited feelings and now have a stalker.
All these things have happened to me. Moral: don't drunk dial. Never.
But who really listens to their own advice? Not me. Part of being a guy includes a base level of stupidity, and therefore, we're prone to some Class-A Dumb Stuff. Or real fun.
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I've never drunk dialed. That's one thing I can claim.
However, when it comes to women, I have done a lot of stupid things ... drunk and sober.
Posted on January 9, 2008 10:14 AM
Dude. You're doing well by that, at least.
Good luck on the dumb stuff in the future.
Posted on January 9, 2008 2:13 PM
I remember my sophomore year in college talking to my roommates late one night after a party -- or maybe between parties -- and we all agreed that it was so fun to call people while we were drunk; better than beer-pong, better even than going to Taco Bell.
Hearing Wingfella talk about it, I guess I'm really lucky that at closing time, I usually only want to call girl friends and tell them how much I miss them. Either they are also out and we can have a girly "I love you" talk, or they are asleep with ringers off and only tease me the next day.
I can't think of ever making a compromising call to a guy. But then again, my college was so small that we would just as often do drunk drop-ins to guys' dorms. So I must never have been conditioned to make late-night booty calls. And I still mostly travel with a herd of girls if I'm having that kind of night and we're good at keeping each other to the ridiculous and not making it all the way to shameful.
Posted on January 9, 2008 6:44 PM
Ruby, for a few years after college, most of the catch-up calls to my buddies happened only after (or during) the Friday beers. That's fun stuff, there.
Posted on January 10, 2008 10:22 AM
ha! After college, a couple of friends who moved to a big city would call me at 4 a.m. so that even if I'd been out, I would be asleep and they could brag about still being at the bars. So I set my alarm for 5 a.m. one night and returned the favor.
Posted on January 10, 2008 2:08 PM
I can say I've never drunk-dialed. I think it is because I never get THAT drunk...
Posted on January 31, 2008 8:21 AM