Mistake
At seventeen, I was an early entrant to the University. I was academically ready for all that college had to offer, but I had a lot to learn about parties.
Nearby our dorm, one of the students ( I think her name was Wendy ) rented a house with her "Let's be friends" roommate. She was so happy to rent the house that she threw a house party for all her dorm friends including me and my roommates Raphael and Collin.
She knew that Raphael was sometimes out of his mind, but what she didn't know was that Raphael and I had already determined to black out by the end of the night. We just got our results back from the last exam and we would rather forget about it.
We entered the party very politely and tried to behave. In the living room people were passing around a pipe and they looked and smelled happy so Raphael and I decided to join in.
We lost track of time and mostly sat around and laughed about stupid jokes like how Descartes is really pronounced "Desk crates". Some other dudes were having a conversation about Gödel's incompleteness in which we called Gödel's incontinance.
Then we suddenly felt the tang of incompleteness. We realized that we had a severe case of the munchies and were very thirsty.
Collin was also there and he was big. Between the three of us, we finished off the three cases of Bock's that was in the kitchen. We were feeling pretty good. Raphael even went out into the lawn and rode his air motorcycle. He kept making the sound of a chicken. He said that was the sound of the "G" string on his banjo.
"Ba-cock!!"
I started to make the sound too and join him in the lawn.
"Ba-cock!!"
We sweat a little bit out there and were strangely warm and thirsty. We came back to join the party and ( Wendy ) the girl who was throwing the party said there were no more drinks.
Raphael couldn't take "no" for an answer and he started scrummaging for drinks. He found some vanilla extract in the fridge, but just laughed. Then he opened the freezer. There was one lonely bottle of hot pepper vodka that Wendy used for cooking.
We figured this was the answer to our thirstiness. Raphael tried a sip and spit out:
Putain Merdasse!!
He was a disturbed French man. I took the bottle from him and finished off about half a liter of red hot pepper vodka. I said,
"There, there. That's not so hard."
Then it hit. Vodka never really tastes like anything on the lips or on the mouth, but when it goes down it burns and hot pepper vodka burns even more. I was a little dizzy and sweating more. Then I ran to the toilet. I stayed there for what seemed like eternity. My other roommate Collin stayed with me. There was a loud porcelain echo humming from the porcelain goddess and ringing through my head.
Whhlruk!!!
Collin stayed with me the whole time until I felt better. Wendy was crying and kicked me and Raphael and Collin out of the house. She said,
"I never want to see you in my house again!"
Collin carried me back to the dormitory. I'm pretty sure I passed out on the way because the next thing I knew was that I was in my bed.
Before that time I saw Collin as the stuck up roomate and Raphael as the fun roomate, but after that time I knew that Collin would stick with me. He said,
"Bro.. Blood is thicker than water."
Yeah, and water is thicker than vodka.
Although it doesn't always come out that way.
Years later doing a chicken fight together.
This creative nonfiction was inspired by the inkwell prompt # 26.
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Thanks for your curation @ninahaskin. Hopefully I can fun following the inkwell's prompts each week with a new story. In the end I would have written my biography in a very funny way.
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I also can't forget how I regret drinking vodka but pepper vodka is a big no for me, i can't even imagine drinking it😸😸 you had a fun story tho😁
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Many years passed since college, but I still remember the hot pepper vodka was a mistake 🌶 .
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🤣🤣 it was great you shared them here👍👍👍
Thanks for the encouragement. I will keep writing.
What possessed you to drink that 🤣? I do hope it was the last time! But you did accomplish your goal, and forget about the results at least.
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I am back into the swing of things @wrestlingdesires,
I have more desk time and I noticed the inkwell's nonfiction challenge and wanted to try it. Actually the times I am on vacation are the times I'm with family and really can't write much. I do most of my writing when all of my classes are over and I'm forced to put 8 hours in. I have all my class materials finished and really have nothing to do but walk around the school or sit at my desk and read a book or open up Hive. Sometimes writing a story for Hive is the best way to cool down.
As for this story, it happened just as I wrote it. Although I had other terrible drinking incidents I have never had hot pepper vodka since then.
You asked: "What possessed you to drink that?"
I was seventeen years old in a college surrounded by brainiacs that we all older than me. I felt that I had something to prove. Teenagers do not have it all together yet, even myself as a teenager.
My son says,
But the fact is I have a lot of maturing to go still.
There are worse things that you could do to earn a paycheck :) ...
Who wants to be an adult 🤣
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In that logic, tomorrow afternoon I'm getting paid to play volleyball.
That's not bad, but no time to write then.
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Anyone who has ever lived in a dorm will relate to this absolutely hilarious account of youthful shenanigans. You must’ve felt very, very sorry for yourself the following morning.
That one of lasting friendships was forged during this escapade demonstrates the power of youthful camaraderie. Engaging, fun and funny!
I think this was the start of the reflux problem. I could drink but I couldn't hold down much. It just got worse so that by the time I was the legal age for drinking I didn't want to drink.
Raphael was soft. His mom was French and his dad was Awol. His mom gave him whatever he wanted and he had a collection of old instruments and other random stashes.
We let Raphael have his own room and Collin and I shared a room. Collin helped me out more than a few times. He was like my big brother but even more unstable. He was terrifying at moments. Most of the time he was great.
I was laughing all through this post, I knew it be a disaster at the end but I didn't know how and my curiosity was cleared after reading to the end.
You guys really created a scene at the party, this is a fantastic story.
I'm glad you enjoy the story @lara-bee,
It's a sorry but true thing that can relate to a lot of people.
I did this with my Vietnamese friends and a bottle of Carolina Reaper infused Rum. It was fun at the time, but definitely brought its own form of hardship 😁
Fun post, nicely done!
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Rum is such a warm drink, but ouch... the Carolina Reaper really steps that up a notch.
Thanks for reposting @albuslucimus. I will listen to some of your flute videos.
LOL! All in all not a bad thing, but as I age I do tend to find myself meandering away from capsaicin-infused liquors in large volumes lol
Thank you! I think there are a few unsolved name that tune challenges if you’d like to try your hand at one of those, but no pressure. I just saw your post and came here organically :)
I can imagine the horror you and your friend had to endure after drowning the dreadful liquid. That experience alone must have made you to become wary of drinks at parties or anywhere else for that matter. It's a good thing you recovered from it and no serious medical damage was done.
Your writing is awesome.
Thank you @aloysiusmbaba,
It's okay when you are a young. In this case I learned the fast and painful way never to drink that.
I enjoy writing. This was an interesting challenge to write a nonfiction story about a mistake and this was the mistake that hovered over me.
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