I went to a downtown New Year's Eve ball drop/street party. Then I went to a late night diner. I had a grilled salmon Caesar salad, and a piece of cheesecake.
Good thing I wasnt drinking. Some guy and girl who were at the diner started causing trouble, because they said they waited and waited for service, and a waitress never asked them if they wanted menus. (It was really busy, they should have spoken up. Sometimes, that's just what Ya gotta do.) instead, they started cursing, yelling and screaming while getting in their vehicle. Talkin about "fuck this place, fuck these people, y'all a bunch of fuckin assholes", and directing these harsh words in the direction of me, my friend, and these 2 girls we were sitting with. We didn't have anything to do with it. We were just sitting there, enjoying some cheesecake.
I kept my mouth shut. But, I told the company I was with, that it's a good thing I don't drink anymore. Because if I was drinking, it would have turned out really bad. I would have pulled a Robert Deniro from Taxi, and said "you talkin to me? You must be talkin to me, cause you're looking right at me, and talking shit, MFer!" And then there would have been blood, and police, and a Mercedes Benz with smashed windows, (his), and maybe he might have had a gun, and I wouldn't have lived to see my New Years resolutions through.
Its a really good thing I don't drink anymore. I avoided a whole lot of trouble that I wouldn't have avoided a year and a half ago.
this was my second sober New Years eve. And I enjoyed myself much more than I did last New Years eve. Cause last New Years eve, I only had 6 months off the poison, and my head wasn't quite right yet.
My head still ain't quite right, but it's a lot better, and at least I don't add alcohol to it.
Happy New Year to everybody!! It gets better and better, it really does!
Wow, Baba! Sounds like those people may end up sitting next to you one day in a meeting....if they make it!
It's so great that you were able to not get upset, remain calm and cool, and not let their foul behavior and mouths suck you in and cause you to react in the same kind of way they were acting. So glad you shared this. What a great example of what staying sober does. Although I probably would not been able to pull the Dinero off very well without getting killed, I would have prob. shown my butt had that happened and I felt it was directed to me.
I remember being in a bar during my drinking days. I loved to play pool and this guy who insisted on playing it with me was making nasty comments. I used to dress up when I went out. Going to bars was my "special event" and I dressed to the hilt, sexy dress, high heels, high hair (ha!). So this guy who was pretty intimidating looking--tall, muscles on his muscles, stern looking face (he looked like he could have been in a Deniro movie....) starts making comments to me such as "I'm going to cut that dress off of you"....right in front of my guy friend, who was more scared of him as I was and didn't dare stand up to him. Well, since he didn't--I did. After a few of these nasty remarks of his, I put my pool stick on the table, walked over to him (or maybe staggered a bit--as I had been knocking off beer after beer), I got right up as close as I could without touching him and started finger pointing and telling him that he better never make another rude comment to me like that. Then he said it was a good thing he didn't have a knife with him and said I better "be careful". Well, we kept playing pool for a short while and I went to get me another beer. While I was paying for it, my guyfriend comes running up to me--all flustered looking with my coat in his hand and says, "We have to get out of here, that guy's got a gun and is saying he is going to use it!" I told him he was just bluffing and not be such a wuss. When he persisted in us leaving I told him if he really thought he had a gun, to tell the manager there. I never really felt any fear until the next day, I woke up and thought about my reactions to this man and my standing up and challenging him like I did, and I thought "Oh my God! I could have gotten us killed!"
Alcohol can make us stupid and kill us.
(we found out the next time we went in there that the guy was barred from the place. He had harassed others in the past as well as me we were told.)
-- Edited by leavetherest on Friday 1st of January 2016 09:40:39 AM
