To ask about your embarrassing drink stories

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To make myself feel better

Last night I made a total tit of myself and I’m dying with embarrassment right now. We ordered drinks via the app at Wetherspoons but because the order went through accidentally twice, we drank far too much. There was no in between drunk period, one minute I was tipsy and the next I was out of control. Apparently I drew £100 out but have no recollection of it (luckily DP kept it safe for me!).

We were turned away from the Casino because we were so drunk so we headed to McDonald’s for the loo and some food. I headed upstairs for the loo and bam the next thing I remember is lying on the floor under the table, vomiting violently and falling back into my own vomit.

We headed to the toilets - both of us in the ladies with the blessing of security - and I fell beside the toilet and I was banging my head on everything. Then I was trying to wash the vomit out of my hair and off my clothes (successfully but I looked like a scarecrow).

Following this, I began hyperventilating and was adamant I was having an asthma attack (I was petrified) so an ambulance was called and for the 45 minutes it took for them to arrive I was breathing like a mad woman and crying that I wasn’t ready to die yet.

I sobered up at the hospital pretty quickly (maybe 30 minutes) and discharged myself so someone else could have that much needed bed.

Finally we went back to the hotel where I got a shower, washed my hair, put fresh clothes on and walked back to McDonalds for those all important chicken nuggets. The same security girl was there and I sheepishly and gratefully apologised profusely and thanked her for her help. There was a lot of humble pie.

Today I continue to be mortified but thankfully DP has forgiven me (he’s been amazing actually) and I’m pathetically nursing a hangover. I’ve never ever been in that position before (I’m almost 27!!) and I never want to be again.

It’s a Birthday night out I won’t forget in a hurry I know that much

So what’s your drunken tail that makes you shiver to the bone when you think of it? Please tell me I’m not the only one to make a total tit of myself!

some posters on here maybe need to look a bit more closely at their own drinking habits

people so prepared to collude with such deeply damaging behaviour I would suggest are likely to be problem drinkers themselves, and attempting to justify it by classing at as normal, calling people "pearl clutchers" and "holier than though" for calling them on it, and pretending to themselves that such attitudes are BS

Oh @Clairetree1 has form for this on other threads. She is a better person than us all.

pathetic

**SirHubzALot

Oh@Clairetree1has form for this on other threads. She is a better person than us all.**

Bet her pearls aren't as naice as mine though

Are you sure you're not pregnant op? Many years ago I didn't realise I was pregnant and was out drinking. For some reason my tolerance to alcohol was extremely low that night and I got extremely drunk on 2 pints of cider. Can only put it down to pregnancy. Can't confirm though as obviously didn't drink again once I knew and my 2 later children were planned so no drinking then either

I once got drunk on 2 glasses of what Tesco helpfully called Chicken wine and my late DH had to put me to bed,

Years ago I worked in a pub, after work (12pm) we used to pop to our local nightclub (once the worst nightclub in the UK) have one pint and be absolutely piddled I’m sure the lines were never cleaned properly and that’s why we got drunk so quickly

I’ve only once been that drunk and I had had my drink spiked.

Both my friend and I vomited and she had a terrible panic attack and it felt as you described, going from nothing to utterly hammered with no in between tipsy stage.

I wouldn’t rule out a spiked drink if I were you (although it’s impossible to ever be sure unless someone fesses up which is how I knew).

This is brilliant! I've definitely had my fair share of drunken embarrassing moments! We all have to be fair! Those who said I've never been drunk enough to get into that state...fair enough but you're only human you'll have embarrassed yourself at some point and cringed about it!
Well done for getting up and on with it today! Get a wee hair of the dog in you! You'll feel much better!
And happy birthday 🎂

@clairetree 'deeply damaging behaviour' ....that's a bit dramatic isn't it? It was a night out and she unintentionally drank too much.

Most people can sympathise OP - don't beat yourself up.

I'm not quite in agreement that it wasn't your fault that you got so drunk. Just because an app doubles your drink order doesn't mean you needed to pour them down your neck.

some posters on here maybe need to look a bit more closely at their own drinking habits

I imagine the vast majority of people on here are not getting smashed every weekend and they are acutely aware that such behaviour is not something to be applauded. I did some stupid drink fuelled antics as a teenager and while at uni. You know what, like most people I grew up, I had a job I had to turn up to in a fit state, I had other responsibilities, I preferred not spending my weekends hungover. I still enjoy a drink, I just do so in moderation these days. Sharing drunk stories is as old as the hills and is cathartic and at times amusing. Stop being so po faced.

Work Christmas party 2011. I was new and nervous and I drank far far far far far too much. The shame. Just utter utter shame. I actually don't want to access the memories to share with you. My brain has them in a "do not open" box. I haven't been drunk since. I drink occasionally and I get a bit tipsy then I stop. I also no longer socialise with people who do drink a lot because being drunk really isn't fun.

Anyway, you can't change it now OP but you're not alone.

Too many to list but I do remember falling into the door of a club cheering & wooping only to be upstairs in the toilets throwing up 10 minutes later! Cringe.

That sounds an awful lot like your drink was spiked. I don't drink now but I vomited in the garden at a dinner party once when I was 16 and had to be escorted to bed. Yours sounds pretty severe and I'm amazed you were allowed back into the Macdonalds. I feel for the staff who had to clean that all up and if I were the manager I wouldn't have let you in.

Personally, after an episode like yours, I wouldn't ever drink again.

Don't understand how you go from ok to absolutely wasted due to one accidently duplicated drink order while quietly playing cards in a pub?

I feel sorry for the poor bloke in McDonald’s. But as I say, he was a star and a true gent.

Don't kid yourself he probably deals with disgusting drunks all the time. You were just another drunk, the poor bloke unfortunately knows from experience the best way to get drunks out as quietly and quickly as possible is to be nice to them then try to clean up the vomit and smell as best as they can once you are gone, you wouldn't want to know what he really thought of you and your ilk but couldn't say. I hope at the very least you gave him a huge tip to go with your apology.

If you were genuinely unexpectedly intoxicated at the pub either you or your dh should have had the sense to get yourselves back to the hotel, especially if you are asthmatic, instead of trying to continue your night out on the piss and inflict yourselves on the casino, McDs or NHS staff.

My behaviour was appalling but my need for expert medical support was justified.

Being asthmatic you will of course know asthma can be aggravated by excessive alcohol consumption and an attack in that conditional is very risky/could be fatal, so while calling an ambulance was the absolute correct course of action in the circumstances, you should have been more responsible with your health condition so it was not required.

I could tell you quiet a few embarrassing drink stories, but they all the usual stuff that happened to all of us as teenagers/very early 20's. You are 26, professional, married, a mother and father(assuming as on mn) and allegedly responsible adults and it is now no longer amusingly embarrassing, just selfish and a bit sad.

There's loads but went out midweek with a friend and drank cocktails on an empty stomach...dont remember much after that but when I woke up i had a flashback of a taxi driver being in our front porch!.The next day Ex dh looked at my phone and rang the last number I rang,when hed finished on the call he told me that I owed the taxi driver money as I was in no fit state to give him any the night before.I was mortified and had to sheepishly hand over the cash later that day.Im just so glad it was a decent man or i dread to think what could have happened

OP I wonder if, as you described, you went from tipsy to ‘out of control’ with no inbetween period, something was put into your drink?

I was thinking the same thing.

Many years ago I went on a mum's night out. None of us had been out for months without kids so we were really excited.
We were all drinkers...as in we could have maybe 5 drinks and just be giggly and chatty, not staggering and vomiting.
We had dinner and about 4 drinks and went to a nightclub. Dancing isn't really my thing so I sat at the bar and watched the handbags.
Barman gave us a drink on the house (a shot.) Not sure what it was.
I switched to water after that because I'd started to feel a bit out of it. Friends had another shot(from batman) and a g and t. I insisted we had to leave. Friends were SO pissed. Staggering, falling over, crashing into each other, injuring themselves and wanting to sleep. By some miracle a taxi stopped for us and we went back to my house. They were so out of it they couldn't make it to their own homes and slept on couches with buckets beside them.
Dh was looking after our two kids and he came to unlock the door when he heard the taxi and saw the 3 of us aiming for the front door. All over the place. Admittedly I wasn't nearly as bad as them but it was really quite scary being so out of control.
I definitely think we were spiked.

*bar man

Op

I was creased reading your story. Unfortunately I’ve got many myself but no way would I put on here!

You’ll be fine

In a bid to befriend some colleagues in a new job, I agreed to go lunchtime drinking. Nerves made me drink too much, I caught a bus home and was sprawled naked on my bed when the landlord of my rented room showed a prospective new tenant my room, as previously arranged! I was only 22 though.....

Oh dear I was 19 and went out with my brother and his friend who was 17 we all got absolutely steaming I somehow lost a tampon on the dance floor I think it fell out and then I managed to stumble back to our mums take off my top run past the toilet vomit in my mums garden and lay there topless until my dad MY DAD of all people threw a towel over me to cover me up

In my younger teenage, first experiences of drinking times I certainly drank myself to the point of vomiting. Usually after a good solid few hours it would happen however once I remember just having a couple of drinks. It was like 8pm and suddenly like a switch had been flicked the room started to spin and I had to run off and be sick. Went straight home and woke up the next day with no hangover, which i would always get. Was so peculiar.

These days I never drink to excess as I hate the feeling of being drunk and I have kids who get up with the larks and either early school runs or weekends are 9am activity classes.

I'm sorry so many people are being mean OP, you made a mistake. Probably drank your usual amount twice a quick as you had it to hand and it tipped you over the edge. It was gross, embarrassing and a shame that the NHS had to help pick up the pieces but it wasn't your intention. Make a donation to the local Air Ambulance and put it behind you. Xxx

A few - mostly when younger!

Aged 15 drank half a bottle of vodka, was sick on the stairs, bed and bathroom

Aged 15 drank loads of cider and black, totally bladdered, was sick in bed and had it my hair

Weed behind parked car on quiet street (was busting ans no time to find a loo due to taxi coming)

After a night out, friends bf drove up home. Was insistent I needed a wee on dual carriageway. He pulled over, me and friend got out. Had the wee then fell backwards into a Bush and had scrams up my arms.

Fell off surf simulator and dislocated my leg

Basically, from 15 to 21 lots of my nights out ended in me being sick (although not in parents home since 18!). Then I got a bit more sensible. I still drink - planning a few gins tonight - but while I get tipsy I don't get pissed anymore. I enjoy the taste and being tipsy but getting pissed is no fun anymore. Being sick is horrible and the hangover isnt worth it. Think I've grown out of it now!