Day:-December 27,2008
Place:-Anna Nagar(Chennai)
Time:-Post 10 PM
Incident:- Rahul getting drunk for the first time.
Gopi started it all when we met at Besi, he said "Mama why don't we booze today" to all of us and i was like "Mama even i would like to try" and i wanted him to promise that the plan won't be called off. I always wished to try and findout the reason behind people getting drunk very often, though i had tasted wine many a times never did i touch the hot ones. He did promise, all that i had to do was to tell Pappa and Mummy that i am staying at Anna Nagar that day. He also agreed. So i went to Anna Nagar, Gopi and Me went and bought liquor, Mcdowell's Whiskey. "Alcohol doesn't come that cheap" i said to myself. We bought enough of beef chilly to feed ourselves as well. I was all set for the party. And we went over to Balaji's and Naga's colony, our destination was Naga's balcony. I should appreciate his courage, he stays at the 3rd floor of that apartment and we are gonna get drunk in the balcony just above his flat and he is just fine with it, great guy! We waited for our gang to assemble there and i was examining the bottle through all dimensions, and reading every word written over it and it was the closest i could get to a liquor bottle and i was desperate to try it out if not for Gopi who kept stopping me from opening it.
And by 10.30 i guess we started the party and the first round was poured into our plastic cups, the desperate me took a sip, it tasted yuck. But it didn't check me from finishing my first round pretty soon and guiding myself for the second one. I was made to wait till the rest of my gang finished it, and i did wait with least patience though. I still wonder how i managed to finish that bitter glass of liquid and yearned for more as well, but i did(Is that the reason??). Then was the second round, i finished it pretty fast, post that i took Gopi's share as well without his knowledge and i drank most of his share as well, then i took 2 sips from Naga's glass as well but he saw me doing that and so hid the glass from me.
The effect of alcohol was working on me but i was enacting as if it was not, and my friends were like "Keep talking and you will get a high" i called my close ones and spoke to them, my tongue was twisting as if every word happened to be a tongue twister. And by the time i had finished talking Gopi had served the 3rd round and since only very little was left i was not served my 3rd peg. When i got back to my place i saw my glass empty and so went for Gopi's glass, he had just then filled it with raw whiskey and i just took it and drank it neat. My friends were like "Gosh, mama it was a raw drink", i was happy to hear that and i could feel the heat on me. And the rest of whatever i did was just what an alcoholic would do, i ended up being a pain in their ass and gave them a night that my friends would never forget. I ended up talking non-stop non-sense for 3 and a half hours, and all the effect the alcohol had on my friends were just washed away by my inebriated behavior.
I was trying to convince my friends that i was perfectly fine and was talking just because of the "Keep talking and you will get a high" statement. I was counting from 1 to 10 , trying to walk properly and saying the names of my friends and abusing the ones who made fun of me and all sorts of non-sense just in an effort to convince them. I was walking as if i was on a dance floor and talking with very less clarity, was shouting at times. And the best part was what Naga had said, he was like "I thought Rahul was a civilised fellow but he seems to be very local". Then i slept for sometime and my friends escaped from my clutches, but the mosquitoes around made sure that i didn't rest for too long and i again got up. But this time i was less violent and seated myself at one corner of the balcony to escape from those mosquitoes. We got up around 5 and went to Balaji's house to get some better sleep. I guess i was fine then, don't really know if i was. I had a sound sleep for nearly 5 hours and got back only at about 10 and that was when i really knew what a pain in the ass i was for my friends. But they did enjoy the day, i really did.
Getting back home i was very much gloomy and wanted to hit the bed soon. I had my morning breakfast and spoke to my parents for sometime and went on to sleep right away, got up only by 1:30 for the lunch and then left for my CAT classes. But the whole day i was very sleepy and kinda tired, it will still remain a nice day in my life. I have never been such a pain for anyone for a long time if not for my Mom when i was a very young kid, i was known to be the most mischievous boy in my whole family.
