Writing Challenge Day 29

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The night of your 21st birthday:

I don’t remember my 21st birthday very well, but it isn’t really because I drank so heavily that night I blacked out. It’s just been 11 years and it was honestly not a big night. A lot of my friends were still 20 as my birthday is in the middle of the kids in my year of college. Sure, I had a handful of friends who had birthdays in October or November who were already 21, but most of my friends’ birthdays were later in the year. Granted, Tiffany G. and I had birthdays in the same month and I think Aaron (who I was dating at the time) did as well. And I think we had been waiting to all go out together.

If I’m not mistaken, my birthday was on a Thursday, which while that is technically college night, I think we decided to wait for the actual weekend to do much of anything. We did have a small thing in our apartment (there were four of us that lived there and my boyfriend spent a shit ton of time there too) and drank to my birthday--mostly a few shots (most likely vodka as that was my drink of choice) that night. I did my best not to have Friday classes, typically speaking, but I may have had work or my friends may have had Friday morning classes. I wish I could remember exactly the reasoning that I didn’t go out, but I guess at the time it was the logical thing to do. And, thinking about it now, it probably WAS the logical thing to do even though that wasn’t a thing I could often say about myself at the time.

I’m fairly certain we went out that weekend. That might have been the first time we went to Rum Runners because we couldn’t get in before that and they had a really fun show there. They had these cheap boozy pitchers that tasted great and had us falling down drunk in no time at all. We always had a DD or a cab for that place because it was not the kind of place that you could go in and just have a “a drink or two” and still drive home. I suppose, technically, they probably did have normal drinks and thinking back, it seems like the dudes usually did order a beer or whatever, but for me and my friends? We were ordering pitchers. I think they were less than $10 and they were nearly the same size as those sweet tea pitchers waitresses use at restaurants to refill people’s cups. Ass ton of ice, I’ll grant you, but as a college junior that was a good deal.

So yeah, comparatively speaking, I had a pretty quiet 21st birthday.