I spent my 19th birthday..
...passed out on a tree stump in the grounds of Southampton University.

My hallmates had all bought me triple JD & cokes telling me they were singles, of course I knew they were blatantly lying but I decided in my wisdom to let them carry out their joke, as after all, it was free drink.

All went well, we left the hall bar at 11:30-ish and started on the (less than 200m) walk back to halls. There was a burger/'bab shop on site and I can only imagine I detoured via there and got split up with the main group

I was woken up about 3am by a security guard who was helpful to a point and showed me that I was in fact, only about 10 metres away from my halls, and he kindly pointed out, I was sleeping on a treestump.

These halls had 3 levels of security to bypas, a 4-digit keypad entry which I managed to get through on only the 10th attempt or so.

The final stage was my own room door which I knew I'd left unlocked.. my keys being in my room for "safekeeping".

It was the middle stage of security that caused the problems. There was an internal lockable door that we NEVER locked, it was always on the latch so that we could meander around our floor without being encumbered with keyrings.

Apart from that night. It was damnded locked.

I spent the night until about 7am trying to kip in the stairwell. Eventually someone got up to use the loo and I managed to get them to let me in.

Peculiarly, I went to my 9am Chemistry lecture before passing out for the rest of the day
(Ariaxen, Fri 19 Mar 2004, 14:00, Reply)