Drunk Girls Part 1 and 2

In playing two shows last week at the G St Pub in Davis, CA (Thursday and Friday), I got to see a few drunk messes around the bar. One guy was at the bar hunched over and could barely speak. He swatted me away from the bar when I went up next to him to get a drink (I think he was attempting to communicate that he was saving the seat next to him, but he was too drunk to speak.) After a few choice words on my part, I went to the other side of him to get a drink.

This was a tame situation compared to the drunkest of girls that I saw on Thursday and Friday. First, let's look at Thursday. I was up on stage playing when I saw a girl stumbling around a little further back from the small dance floor area in front of the stage. I didn't think too much of it besides, "She's pretty drunk- haha."

As we continued the song, her head swung around like a bobble head doll and she began to teeter. She was around two guys (could've been her friends, I have no idea) that I thought were going to help her out. While losing her balance she grabbed onto the tall table that has not one, but two water coolers on it. As she fell to the ground, she tried to use the table to pull herself back up. This was a horrible plan, but I suppose her drunkness got in the way of her "let's execute a better plan" portion of her brain. The table immediately toppled and both water coolers had their tops pop off. The silver cooler actually had the water dispenser break off, completely breaking the cooler. Water was now covering the wooden dance floor, and this made for a very slippery and dangerous time for the rest of the people at the pub.

The staff jumped into action by kicking the drunk girl out of the bar, and mopping up the water (which was pretty much a lake at this point.) She was a train wreck.

The second girl who did not know her alcohol limit was at the Pub the next night. My band had already played, and I was standing in the corner watching Automatic Rival do their thing. I tried to get out of the way of the crowd, but there were a lot of people there, so finding a place away from others was a tall task. As I was watching AR, I felt something hit my foot. A blond girl had fallen down right next to me. The odd thing is that my first thought was, "I'm not helping her/touching her because I don't want to get in trouble!" Like Dave Chappelle said, "Chivalry is dead, and ya'll killed it!" I'm not going to be the guy who gets in trouble for trying to help.

Oddly enough, her two girlfriends were trying to help her up, but her drunk body was dead weight. That was when a gentleman sprang into action! A guy came over and pulled her up off the ground. He brought her a few steps away from me and her friends. I believe he asked if she was ok, and then she gave him a drunk hug. Then a kiss. Then a full on make out session. I figured, "Huh? Seems like this is her boyfriend..." I was curious so I continued to watch the situation blossom.

It was only then, when her friends came back over for her and pulled the "we're going to lock arms to apparantly play a game of Red Rover at another part of the bar" move, that it was confirmed that this was not her boyfriend, but just some dude. Well, well, well... it looks like our chivalrous hero was actually an opportunistic sexual deviant. He is the kind of guy who gave men a bad name, and probably the reason why I didn't help to begin with!

Moral of today's blog: Don't be that girl (or guy) at a bar! Don't get wasted an do stupid stuff. It's fun to be drunk, but not being able to walk or stand up is a problem (unless you have strong friends to keep you in check/carry you home.) The other moral- playing music allows you to see some ridiculous situations.