Be safe at parties! Lesson learned!

I’ve never been the partying type. Never.

But two of my best friends convinced me to come to a New Years eve party yesterday. I was excited, sure! I’ve been to less parties than I can count on a hand, and I knew a few others who would be there. So sure! Why not, right?

I won’t call myself innocent, it wasn’t my FIRST party. But usually at parties everything goes fine, and it’s somewhat fun.

My drink stayed in my hand the ENTIRE time up until I went to the bathroom. I asked my friend to hold it, that I’d be right back. I didn’t want to take it with me because, well... bathrooms are kinda gross. Well, she had to hurry out to take another mutual friend of ours home. She told me she’d hidden my drink behind the T.V., where it should be safe.

I was in the line for the bathroom and then in the actual bathroom for less than 10 minutes. I came back and found my drink where she said it’d be, tucked away behind the TV. Nothing seemed off, and no one could have seen it— so I thought.

“So that’s safe,” I told myself.

But unfortunately, at a party with 150+ people, that’s not true. By the time I’d finished my drink, I was feeling very uneasy. I’ve drank often, so I know my limit, and I was nowhere near it. Two normal sized bottles would NOT get me plastered.

An hour later, I couldn’t even walk. My vision was blurry and I wanted to sleep. The friends that I’d came with were nowhere in sight.

I called the friend that left and asked her about it, and she said she would come back and take me home if I’d needed. (She wasn’t drinking.)

She came back, apparently, because the next thing I remember is her waking me up in her passenger seat at my house, and walking me inside.

I’m sure the two I came with were shocked about what’d happened to me, because I was told by the third (who held my drink) that they sat with me for some time until she arrived.

I puked quite a few times, and today still didn’t feel quite right. I don’t smoke marijuana, so there was no doubt that something had to have been in that drink. Thankfully I had friends to make sure I was safe; but that didn’t make it any less scary.

The moral of this is, do not let drinks sit at parties. Even if you “hide” them. I’ve always thought it was crazy to hear about being drugged at parties because it had never happened to me but it can happen to ANYONE. It was very scary and I have CERTAINLY learned a lesson from this.

Anyways. Happy new year, everyone!