beyond insane Halloween festival held at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where hundreds of thousands of people, seeking alcohol, gather in costume and party all night long.
Soooooo last night, one of the parties my group and I were invited to was at my friend Kristel's house. I've only been to her house a couple of times, but I know exactly where it is and how to get there. So as we're walking up Court Street in our awesome costumes (Jess as Snow White, Nicole as Alice, Tessa as Esmerelda, me as the White Prince, Michelle & Sara as a Pop Group called "The Wrecking Crew," and Brice and some other kid as Vampire-things) we're hitting all these parties looking for alcohol
[because alcohol is the fuel of Ohio University Halloweeners]
and taking pictures with all the sweet costumes we saw on the way! I think the Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters was sweet, and the Buddy the Elf was terrific, but the House M.D. was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. The guy looked JUST like Hugh Laurie and had a cane and bottle of pills, and he was the shit!!
Anyways, so we're at the top of Court St. and lookin for a party when I announce "oh, I know of one just up that street to the right." The group was less than excited about having to walk up a hill though... but we eventually decided to just go, because alcohol is a driving motivation.
We finally get up the hill, and walk into Kristel's house. I'm yelling out her name and walking around the house... nobody. Except for one kid lying on the couch watching tv. I go, "we're friends with Kristel, where are they?!" He looked at me puzzingly and then said "well, everybody left like 10 minutes ago." So, a little bummed about walking all this way for nothing, I show my group to the kitchen. No beer in the fridge. Depression, and anger, setting in.
And then we see it sitting on the shelf.
A handle of Captain Morgan's spiced rum.
"Kristel won't mind!!" (which was true) "Let's have sum shots!!" So Coke is brought out of the fridge as a chaser, and we started downing shots. "Whose cookies are these??" someone asked, to which I responded, "Dunno, but they're my favorite kind!!" (those white ones with the pink icing on top... omg, yummm) "So I'm having one!!" So I ate two, and split a third with one of my sister's friends... all the while taking shots of spiced rum!!
Someone in the hall yells over to us, "alright guys, let's go find an actual party." So we finish our cookies and rum, of which half the handle is now empty, and decide to do the smartest thing possible: take the rest of the rum with us!!
So one of the guys poured the perfect ratio of Coke into the bottle to make a GREAT-tasting Rum n' Coke, and we pocketed the bottle.
As we're walking down the street, I finally got a call from Kristel. "Hey Kris! We were just at your house!! Where were you!?!?" She laughingly hesitates and says, "umm, we're still here! We're finishing some drinks before heading uptown!"
Bewilderment briefly flutters through my head...
"We were JUST in your house tho... there was only one guy there, watching tv on the couch."
"Umm, nope! We're here, and there's nobody on the couch!"
"Kristel, we were just there. I've been to your house a bunch of times!!"
"HAHAHA wait wait wait, you went to my house on Mound Street!?"
"Yeah!?!? I've been to see you before, I know where your house is!"
"WE MOVED!!!!!!!!"
".....what!?"
"I dunno whose house you were in, but it wasn't ours!!"
That's when the dawning occurred: we had just invaded a home and stolen alcohol and cookies from it.
Me and House M.D.
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WROTE THIS IN YOUR BLOG!! I am very sad that I didn't get to see you...but I think having that story on the web for all to see was soooo worth the sacrifice! Love you!
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