Aetera said:
I think that the time when I hadn't been mixing my own drinks and almost died of alcohol poisoning qualifies as my worst drinking experience. A friend had mixed drinks beforehand and due to the mixer, the vodka was basically flavorless. Due to this, I thought that the drinks were weak, when in fact they were really strong.
Long story short, I blacked out in a bathroom stall and almost drowned in my own vomit.
I don't drink vodka anymore.
I don't drink vodka anymore either.
I was at a camp out in the woods with about a hundred other people. I had a 700ml bottle of smirnoff and a large bottle of coke to mix it with.
I started out with a lager, and a few swigs of cocoanut rum, then cracked open the vodka.
Now, I went to a repeat of this camp out the next week and stuck to beers, and the alcohol was making me depressed due to having been dumped a couple of weeks previously, and the fact that people were getting isolated and standoffish at this camp out. I figure this must have been what caused me to neck the vodka the previous week, but I didn't remember. Anyway, back to camp out number one:
So aside from a couple of people having the odd swig, I basically polished off all 700ml of vodka, neat. The coke lay forgotten, and there was nothing to cushion the alcohol. I had also missed two meals. I don't remember anything past the label of the bottle, but apparently, I fell to my knees, keeled over and began frothing at the mouth.
People obviously noticed this, and tried to roll me onto my back (thinking that was the recovery position. Fools.) in my comatose state, I kept rolling back onto my side, as it's how I sleep. They couldn't stop me from doing this, which aggravated someone to kick me in the ribs (explaining the bruises) also, I was briefly accidentally lit on fire.
Eventually the ambulance arrived, and several people have been claiming they personally carried me to it. Whoever it was did drop me and make me hit my head on a rock.
I have a very vague memory of surfacing in the emergency ward, then being in a car ride home, then somehow making it up to bed. My mum had come out to collect me, and wasn't too pleased. Over the course of the next day, when I came down stairs and proceeded to neck an entire large carton of orange juice, she explained that I had been on a drip to get fluids back into my body, and that I'd had to be kept in a sealed thermal blanket, because the alcohol poisoning had made my blood pressure and body heat nosedive. Fun times.
Anyway, due to some kind of classical conditioning effect, thinking about vodka makes me feel a little queasy.