Cambridge 1987 (I think)
was the last time I asked someone out. The girl in question was eventually to become my wife and I'm still married to her.

The first time we met was at a student house party and the invitation had stated that it was "school uniform" (they were teachers). I didnt have any fancy dress knowledge and on the evening in question I started out in the college bar with a few pints of "Owd Rodger" to get started. The high percentage of alcohol and relative speed of imbibition got my evening well on track and I cycled off to the party at the other end of town.

I went via the off licence to pick up some vodka (easy to carry).

On arrival at the party, I was fairly merry and the girl who answered the door questioned my lack of "school uniform". I said that I was wearing boxer shorts underneath my jeans and would that do? That was accepted and I duly took my trousers off.

The evening progressed and I managed to insult and abuse a good number of the partygoers (I tended to do that, a bit like a "star turn"), and get progressively more pissed.

In the end I was sat on the floor with a girl who I had never met, spilling my life story and troubles. I eventually left the house at 6AM in the morning as I had to get to a film premiere in London (to report on it for a student mag with a mate of mine (now disappeared in Israel somewhere)). On leaving I asked if I could see her again and she agreed!

I went back 48hours later. I was sober and dressed.

I don't think she has ever really got over the "fallout" that occurred from the boxer shorts later in the evening.

Oh, I forgot to mention that she was the leading light of the Christian Union in her college and I was the biggest pisscan in my college. This caused much interest.

And for-the-record I am now no longer able to drink a great deal of alcohol, much like Billy Connolly once said "I had all my share at once".
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 22:23, 1 reply)

That'll be the Lifetime Alcohol Index™

Across your life, you don't drink when you're young and you don't drink as much later in life after your liver starts to go, so you have to balance that out by drinking as much as you can during the 18-25 period (or 16-25 for us Scots).
(Pope Jamiroquai III, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 22:34, closed)