Thursday #2 – in the week since DTM left, uni had gone from bad to worse, so naturally when this Thursday rolled around there was only one thing on the agenda – drinking. Following his suggestion that I use his absence to spend some quality time with M-dizzle, the 2 of us (together with a few hundred of our closest friends) hit up unibar for some Oktoberfest action. Before making it to the official party we spent a couple of hours downing ciders with the 713 gang to ensure we wouldn’t be too sober for unibar. After teaching what we thought were valuable lessons in home safety, attempting some indoor cycling, explaining the importance of drinking THROUGH the hangover to some amateurs, and doing a quick shot of Bacardi; we were ready to take on Oktoberfest. After a few hours of insane toilet queues, cans of Smirnoff that took me back to my teens, music I’d never heard before, giant sausages, and pretzels that were “hard like a bagel and sweet like a doughnut”; it was time to cut off the wrist band and head to McDonalds.
Rejuvenated by our quick big mac stop; M-dizzle and I were ready to take on the Rege in all its Thursday night karaoke glory. Not one to ever get on stage for karaoke, I instead took the time to teach one of the giants my Grandpa-style dance moves and impress the gang with my superb knowledge of lyrics from songs that were big before I was born. To say they were blown away by the fact I could sing American Pie in all its 8 minute 30 second entirety was an understatement. However to say I was humble about it would perhaps be stretching the truth.
Things M-dizzle and I learnt on this Thursday without free movies:
1. Relocating people’s laptops as a home safety lesson is not always well taken or appreciated. I suspect instead of learning not to leave a bunch of strangers unattended in the apartment; The Blonde Giant may instead have learnt not to leave 2 friends and 13 ciders unattended in the apartment.
2. Indoor cycling is not as easy as it sounds when the bike seat is located higher than your belly button. As a general rule, if it takes one person to hold the bike still for the second person to then use a table and a wall to mount the bike, it probably won’t end well.
3. Cycling on the balcony with an appropriately sized bike and a cider in hand is much more enjoyable than the aforementioned indoor cycling. However, drinking before excitedly mounting the bike may lead to some pain for one’s lady bits.
4. When you've been drinking for a couple of hours, have started to get a headache and are feeling a little sleepy; you must not, under any circumstances, sit on the floor. We stressed this lesson to The Less-Experienced Drinker who was struggling before 7pm and after heeding our advice she was seen outlasting us at 1am. As the hangover started before reaching Oktoberfest we told her she had to just drink through it. Seeing her after the Rege was a proud moment for all of us.
5. Bacardi, when not in its Breezer form, is disgusting and should not be taken straight. It did however, successfully take us from “too sober for unibar” to the previously discussed indoor cycling so all was not lost.
All in all a good and educational evening was had. It was by no means a free Thursday, but as there was still money in the wallet on Friday morning I really can’t complain.
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