I can't believe I'm going to admit to this, but I lost my virginity on Spring Break in high school! My friend was having a party and I went and had a wonderful time! I remember sitting on the couch with this extremely attractive young lady who kept asking me if I wanted to go into the other room.
I was so clueless (sadly, not drunk, just CLUELESS) to what she meant, I told her to hang on a minute, I wanted to see this part of Pink Floyd's The Wall. About halfway thru Comfortably Numb, she whispered in my ear what she meant - and THEN I got the point! To this day, I have very fond memories of that song in spite of the fact it's pretty depressing!
A few years later in college, I once smoked a water pipe that was taller than me (I'm 6'3") during Spring Break, but I'll never forget that magical Spring Break in 1992...!
Which story to tell....well I have one that is similar to @buddawiggi so I suppose I can tell that one... I was 17...senior year...spring break and I was EXTREMELY careless. I went to spend the weekend at a girlfriends house I headed over around 8 am and although it was early morning we decided "hey! Let's funnel Jaegermeister..." Bad...Idea... I was up first, being the youngest and the most daring and I had never funneled any alcohol before...So they handed me the funnel I sat on the floor and they started pouring it in...me thinking they would do a couple shots...WRONG....14 shots later I was choking I had Jaeger up my nose, running down my chin and a horrid taste in my mouth.My throat and stomach were on fire!
Plus I don't think anyone else funneled anything! I remember the next 30 minutes, sitting outside smoking a joint and a cigarette just relaxing...and then I don't remember a damn thing. I guess what happened is some guys came over and I was sloshed and flirting with one and he made a suggestion to go for a drive...my friend had a mini van and I guess I offered to be the driver...sad part is no one stopped me.
10 of us piled into a van with me, the drunkest one driving...real smart! Anywho to make a long story short...when I woke up the next night (around 5 pm) I was in Sacramento, California....Mind you I live up in Washington about 20 minutes from the border...so that is roughly a 15 hour drive. I apparently drove the whole way...How I didn't get pulled over...is beyond me and how I didn't pass out at the wheel is beyond me too...when we went to the van to leave because we knew we would all get in some serious trouble if our parents found out there were tons of beer cans, liquor bottles, weed baggies and food wrappers in that car.
I remember there was a Fireball whiskey bottle on the drivers seat...and there was maybe 1/4 of it left...I guess I was drinking that the whole way down as well... Stupid things I did when I was young....they surprise me...but hey...makes for an interesting story in my opinion! @tealmyster.
I was midway between New Orleans and Panama City Beach in 1992 at some hotel about 15 of us stopped at for some reason to spend the rest of that day and then the night. We were going to be off to Panama City Beach the next day for our 4 days of debauchery New Orleans style in Panama City Beach, it was a great plan. At some point during the day we as young men who had been drinking like our lives depended on it and with zero care for life and human decency decided it would be a good idea to have a "I can funnel that" contest.
A few of us went and then went again, 2 beers then 4, 5 beers then 6 at a time. Really F'd up at this point several guys had passed out in the room already and it was not even dinner time yet. Well me and my big mouth decide to make a claim that for all the marbles and title of biggest idiot ever I could funnel the tequila... not the good stuff we didn't have it.
The clear, cheap and chokey like a big swallow of gasoline tequila. Well I went first.. big man on a dare. To my credit I put most all of a 750ml bottle of 80 proof cheap tequila in the funnel.. it was filled all the way up the hose and just into the funnel a bit .. up went the funnel and the tequila..down my gullet it went in one big gulp.
They say I lasted around 5 minutes after the stunt before I passed out. When I awoke the next day.. yes. The next day, I was flat on my back on the hotel bed with a long empty paper towel roll in my mouth for breathing room as my entire head was covered in shaving cream.
Splitting headache no idea where I was... this kid (me) from NH was alone in a room where all of my friends had gone off without me to PCB for Spring Break. They covered my passed out head in shaving cream, stuck the roll in my mouth so I could breathe and the left me there. I can only tell the part of the story after the tequila because after hitchhiking back to New Orleans and meeting up with one of my classmates who let me stay at his place until they came back.
When they came back I got picked up again, laughed at and made a complete fool. I did not care at all as they had more to drink and I was feeling un-numb and very dry.. they told me the story of trying to wake me up but just being able to and passing the buck as to who would call the hospital but nobody ever did they just left for PCB.. unphased by their passed out now dead weight classmate.
About two years ago I went to bed with a woman and woke up with a man. I was mad at first, but then realized he was a very good looking man. This isn't a very involved answer, but I assure you it's true.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.