Help me feel better about being a drunk idiot

[Honeybee27]

Went to a wedding of one of my husbands colleagues on Friday. I have to say that we have known them and many of the other work guests in a social sense for several years and would class them as friends but even so....

I was pretty nervous about attending, conscious of how I looked and had a nice outfit picked and bought months ago. People kept buying me drinks throughout the day and into the evening and let's just say I got a bit too drunk. I don't remember a great deal but apparently I was doing some interesting dancing (cringe cringe cringe), being quite loud and chatting general rubbish to all those unfortunate to encounter me. I think my dress might have popped open at one point too

Yesterday I had a horrific hangover which has now been replaced by anxiety. I know I over indulged. My husband isn't cross and finds it funny but i feel like an idiot. In all of the photos I just look bleary eyed and ridiculous. I'm in my late thirties I should know better! I wasn't abusive or anything but I'm worried about what the bride and grooms family will think as well as hubbys work colleagues (a few of which have messaged hubby and myself asking if I've recovered )

Can anyone make me feel better with some reassurance or drunken stories of your own! I swear this isn't something I usually do and just feel mortified! No nasty comments please

The ohmygods are the worst. You'll just have to brazen it out.

Everybody will have been a bit merry. How interesting was your dancing? 💃

Interesting enough for someone to video it and put it social media. Honestly I could die. I couldn't even watch it.

DH just keeps laughing about it but I really do feel genuinely crap and embarrassed!

If he's laughing about it, then it's not that bad. It was a wedding FFS people are supposed to be happy and have fun.

Laugh it off, you let your hair down! Don't be embarrassed just do a "oh gosh silly me how mortifying, must behave better next time" act and move on :)

You had fun. You didn't offend anyone.

Laugh at yourself. Everyone gets The Fear after getting drunk like that.

It doesn't sound like you're getting wrecked drunk every time you are out. Just make a joke of it and move on. Most people were probably drunk to some degree too.

Omg. Social media? That's evil

It was a wedding I don't suppose you were the only one that was a bit worse for wear, most people chat shit when they have had a few to many as long as you didn't start a fight or offend people I wouldn't worry to much.

Thank you this is what I need to hear! It totally is the post drinking fear that does it. I must admit I've had a few occasions like this in the past, it's like someone flicks a switch and I go from being merry to total liability. Binge drinking is clearly not for me.

Yes I wasn't impressed about the video but it's one of those things where it'll be worse if I make a big deal out of it.

First work night out I’d ever been to , never been drunk before (25) , never really had alcohol properly and on pretty strong painkillers having been discharged from hospital a week before ...

I had a Baileys at my friends before going out for Dutch courage - then managed to have half a bottle of rose, then sourz, wkd, tequila, double vodkas between about 7pm to 3am ... I remember my colleagues holding me up and wrestling to get my shoes off as they were very high heels and I was very, very drunk . Ended up passed out on the carpet of the venue covered in someone’s jacket . Spewed fluorescent pink all over the loos and then again in the car park .

Got home , fell over in my flat’s car park, fell up the stairs , got into bed and then woke up still very drunk at 12 noon .

Had to go to work the day after and complete a 12 hour shift 😫 , never again .

I am the worst for doing this but have learnt to embrace my inner drunken idiot and laugh at myself 😬
Just to make you feel better here are a few examples of times I've made a complete tit of myself!

• there's a video of me still circling social media riding downhill in a shopping trolley then tipping out in a gutter. Was wearing a very short dress at the time and everything was on show
• about 3 months after I met my bf I got ridiculously drunk at an Xmas party, he came to pick me up and when he got me home I stripped naked and offered to shit on his chest in a sexual way 🤔 no idea why he's still with me after that ....it is NOT something I'm into 😂 needless to say he declined, he wrapped me in a duvet like a burrito and put me to bed to sleep it off. I was mortified when he told me the next day but we laugh about it now
• stole the microphone from the band and my friends wedding and ran off singing (badly) let it go from frozen with the lead singer chasing me

Just laugh it off, it'll be old news in a few days!

@wishywashy6 you stole the microphone 😂😂😂😂🙈🙈 that's great lol. I guess I just want to earn the possibly accurate reputation of being johns drunken lush of a wife but probably a bit late for that now!!!

Don't want to earn that should be**

If they've tagged you on the video you can untag yourself so at least it limits the audience on your side.

We've all had the fear the next day. Laugh it off like your husband is

There is nothing worse than this feeling, the worst bit is other people relish the opportunity to make you feel worse. The video is mean and whoever posted it is a bit of a dick. We've all been pissed. And from my experience, the ones who have no regrets or Beer Fear are the ones who are the awful drunks!

there's a video of me still circling social media riding downhill in a shopping trolley then tipping out in a gutter

Hehehe

Yeh you have the fear and most likely alcohol depression. Don't worry, you'll be thinking about if alot more than anyone else. In fact, apart from sending the txts I bet no one has thought about it again.

Don't worry!

I wouldnt be happy about the video on SM thoufh

I went to a wedding of my DPs colleague many years ago. Evening only (I think it was about 8 - 11).there were only pint glasses, even for the wine... Of course I wasn't completely filling the glass, but how do you know how much you are drinking?! Very drunk, puked in the sink at the b and b (which DP then had to unblock), then had a very long windy drive back home the morning after in another colleagues car. I had to ask them to stop about 20 times to puke. It was awful!

@smokyburgandy I do feel like a couple of them are relishing it a bit. One wife in particular seems to enjoy it when others make a tit of themselves. She has uploaded several pictures including me looking leathered and dopey 😳

Post under the video thanking everyone for their comments and noting that you are available for weddings and bar mitzvahs/will be appearing here all week.

You've got the fear - don't worry, this will be a funny story for you this time next year. Or even this time next month.

Thank you for posting this. I am suffering terribly today. Met up with my best friends from uni last night - haven't seen them for months. Was feeling anxious about being out. Massively over indulged - especially bad as I am on meds for anxiety which don't mix at all with alcohol. Things were going great until I harassed the dj relentlessly because he wouldn't play my tune so the bouncers removed me from the club.
This was quite a low point of my life and there have been a few.

Other great moments in the past have included falling over and giving myself a massive lump on my forehead and 2 blacks eyes. Falling over and ripping a tendon in my ankle which took bone off with it.

I am 46. Go me.

@Wren77 I am a massive dj botherer too. I don't think I did that last night though. In the past I have questioned the musical knowledge of djs many times and been downright rude in doing so. Usually I'm so mild mannered but when I'm drunk like last night I just morph into an obnoxious bolshy arse.

Too many drunken nights making a tit of myself in front of people to mention them all.. Here's two..

• Posh friends housewarming I for some reason asked the friends df if he liked porn(I don't and don't know why I said it) I was also sick into a towel and tried to hide it up my dress.
• huge toilet queue and wee'd myself at a wedding. Leg make-up contouring ruined!not Soggy sandals.Put knickers in bin and carried on dancing in a risque manner. My OH was aware I was commando and was holding his breath in case I fell or flashed.

I don't drink now.

Ah this is all making me feel so much better!

My first work xmas dinner I was extremely nervous which resulted in me getting so drunk that one of the bosses had to escort me down the stairs and out of the venue holding me up like a puppet. My brother was picking me up that night and boss walked me to the car where I then introduced him to my brother and told him I loved him 😳 my lovely brother had to apologise to the boss and said sorry she's always a dick like this when shes drunk. Slept in the footwell of the car the rest of the way home. Work on Monday was fun....