The Dog's Name

Translated by
Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jnr
Thursday, July 20, 2006

"Discount Tequila has no respect for the human body"

Everybody I know has a tequila story…me, I like the stuff, on the rocks, dash of lime. But my Tequila story harkens back to when I attended college in my nation’s capital. At that stage in my life I lived in a leafy Canberra suburb known by those who live there as Dunpooka.

For those who know of this fine neighbourhood, that’s right, I was a “Cordie”.

And although the memory is hazy with the intervening years, my Tequila story takes place on one of those weekends after passing the Screed Test, and like all great Cordie stories it occurs in "The Private Bin."

We were upstairs in the Bin, looking down on the dance floor, dressed in our Cordie best, trying not to look like soldiers and failing miserably, and having long switched from beer to scotch and then tequila shots. The night was rapidly descending into “one of those nights” where you start out with a few quiet ones but end up drinking rowdy ones, so the bar was arranged with us on one side of the club and the locals on the other…the problem we weren’t paying to go to college, we were being paid, and thus had dollars...

And thus that simple college economic truism came into play, we could afford to buy the girls’ drinks and they couldn’t…simple economics but not very good politics.

I really don’t know where the first punch came from…I was to quote Kevin Costner in Silverado “Just talking to the girl”…but land it did.

And then land I did...

...on the floor.

The second hit never landed…if there is one thing Cordies do well, it’s stick together…a bit like a football team on tour, but a football team who go through thrice weekly close combat training sessions, we cleared a path to the door through the locals without the bouncers really getting involved (we were too good for business ~grin~)…and so we made our exit…

…into the arms of our nations finest, the Federal Police.

Who took one look at the bunch of drunken cadets piling out of the Bin and did the only thing they could do really…they drove us home.

So my first weekend in Canberra, off post, I got king hit in a club, got to see the inside of a police car (very nice)…and woke with the worst hangover I can ever recall. (Worse even than Balinese Arak or even Korean Soju)

And apart from one fight years later in a country pub, when one drunk bloke thought I was grabbing his bum as I fondled my girlfriends rather pert and muscular posterior…I have never been in a fight in a Pub or Club since.

The irony on that night I was drinking Tequila too. (hmmm...note to self)

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18 Comments:

Miss Natalie said...: Why is it so many people have tequila horror stories? its never beer or west coast coolers!; 14:53
Scorpy said...: 15 yrs old, hip flask of tequila, bottle of stout (WHY?) and very, very drunk...have never drunk either drink again!!!!
Nat, I have some great Beer stories and even one with West Coast coolers but it involved a blonde, a bikini, a lawn and a ute LOL; 17:51
Indiana said...: Nat: That's because all my West Coast Cooler stories happened in High School and I really am trying to forget that period of my life and the foolish things I did to impress the girls...on second thought maybe I should forget everything in my life up until I got out of bed this morning ~grin~

Scorpy: I have a few WCC stories that involve bikini's but I am more an equal opportunity dater when it comes to hair colour.; 22:28
Bottle Rocket Fire Alarm said...: The last time I drank a bunch of tequila I ripped off the kitchen cabinet doors, tore off the toilet seat, and fell down the stairs backwards and landed pretzelled up but unharmed. I fell asleep facedown in a burrito.; 00:00
Trix said...: My only question: Did you at least get to eat the worm before you got sucker-punched?; 02:38
Neil said...: No matter how old you get, you never forget those tequila stories!; 03:46
Indiana said...: BRFA: Are you sure it was a burrito?

Trix: Unfortunately...No? In fact I have never eaten the worm.

Neil: Why is it that at point of inebriation everything just seems like a good idea?; 04:44
Dusty Admin said...: Alas, I have no bad stories when it comes to tequila. Whisky, rum, beer, alcopops, wine and especially gin but never tequila.

I feel so left out.

"I like tequila, it makes me happy"; 05:32
~ good girl ~ said...: I'm not sure we want to hear about my tequila stories. They're not pretty. Oh..huh? The tequila pool party?? *blush*

Right.

I am proud to say I have never been punched, sober or drunk. Scratched, yes? And he loved it.

GG; 05:42
Cinnamon said...: Mmmmm. I love tequila. Patron and good champagne actually mix without killing me the next day - and I sure can't say that about champagne and anything else.; 06:35
Miss Natalie said...: Ohhh come on Indy share. Scorps, WWC and a ute - how aussie. love it!; 12:07
Indiana said...: Admin: I hear tell there are many things that make you happy.

GG: Funny how a few scratches delivered in the throes of passion are generally regarded as a good thing by most guys.

Cinn: Right now I am suffering a bourbon induced fuzzy outlook.

Nat: Some stories should stay in the past.; 00:55
sipwine said...: Oh my, I just drank tequila last night. So funny I'm reading this story today. I got to my friend's house I don't remember much after that. I woke up in my friend's bed and he was on the floor. So was two other friends I had gone out with. I tried to carefully step past 3 grown men to make it to the door to try to get to work on time. I stepped on one, and all he did was grunt.

Tequlia Bad.; 01:55
~ good girl ~ said...: I knew it! Finally, something in my repertoire is right on the money ;-); 04:22
Indiana said...: Sipping: So you drink Tequila, pass out and men sleep on the floor.

GG: I bet there is more than one thing.; 04:27
~ good girl ~ said...: A Good Girl only says so much. Everything else is a hint.

My mother told me that. Wise woman.; 04:49
Indiana said...: GG: The word isn't hint, it's TEASE. And mothers usually have more wisdom than we really give them credit.; 04:58
~ good girl ~ said...: Is it now..?

GG; 22:25