I wouldn't use is as an excuse, but there have been about 3 times where I have totally blacked out and I don't remember a single thing.
Just because you can vaguely remember parts of the night doesn't mean everyone can. I was smashed like that, where I remembered parts of what was going on when I went out in Coventry for my 18th a few years back. Although one night I was out in the cold after leaving a party, I'd drunk a crate of Strongbow, then went my friends house. Had another big bottle of cider and a fair amount of Rum (from what he told me) I don't remember ANYTHING at all of the night, apart from waking up in the bath.. saying 'thank you mum' and blacking out again.
Mum said I opened the door with my key, locked it and I must have put the key back in my wallet (as it was there in the morning) but when I went upstairs I was just sick everywhere, all over my clothes, bedroom floor the lot. So she had to bath me, in the middle of the night. Since then I've never been that bad, or hung around with the lad that fed me that amount of rum. As it was out of order and horrific to get to that point.
I'm not using it as an excuse, because now when I go out in town I remember everything. I still drink a lot but i know my limits, which i didn't know back when i was 18. But there has been times I think I could use it as an excuse for something bad that I did (Not that I ever did anything bad) as I remember nothing at all. Saying that it would be my fault for getting that bad in the first place. So I wouldn't expect anyone to forgive my actions, unless I was drugged or something.
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