(Please forgive grammatical and spelling errors, as I am really hung over lol)
Before we start let me sum up what exactly the Santa pub crawl is; a large bunch of like minded people get dressed up in the same cloths (like a gang, or an army) preferably red because it is the fastest color, and go and ransack a large number of bars, carrying off there liqueur, and there women, they manage to do all this while mass jay walking and the law looks the other way.
Bar1
I get lost on my way to the bar but fortunately there was a rather large group of Santa’s walking in a similar direction a few blocks away, so I manage to attach myself to them without being noticed, we get to the bar and I realizes this must be the other group because I fail to recognize anyone, I attempt to befriend a few people but I keep getting them mixed up because of there fake facial hair and similar suits, its like ‘hi again Mick! Oh wait your not Mick sorry…’
I recognize one person from work ‘Amanda’ but everyone was still not lucid enough to talk shit with me because this was like the first bar.
A scuffle breaks out near by and I get a beer spilled on me before I even get my first drink, and a guy who is extremely smashed and can’t even talk comes up and starts rubbing against my leg and saying I have the best Santa had, I have a feeling he was looking for a fight, because all his mates were standing around…. A few beers later and me getting accosted again by the same wanker (and coming close to knocking out that fools teeth) finally my group shows up and a few more familiar faces appear ‘Nick’, ‘Oscar’, ‘Josh’ ‘Rail’, ‘Ryan’, about a drink later we all move out for the next bar.
Transit to bar 2
An army of red rolls out of the bar, a group of Santa’s are singing the Cocomo really badly and a few others strangely enough are singing Adam Green lyrics, everyone successfully manages to mass jaywalks, no joke, a large cluster of Santa’s stepped out in front of traffic like three times.
Bar2
I walk in to a sea of Santa’s lined up at the bar to get a drink, after standing in the line for like fifteen minutes I decide that there is no desert dryer than this bar, ten minutes later I get to the bar, I forget my order so I do the natural thing and order a tequila slammer… now this is where I hate Australia and there crappy bar edicate, he does not give me a tequila slammer, he gives me a shot, a slice of lemon, and some salt… that’s not what I asked for jerk but you can’t help the ignorance that has been enforced on you by all the people who seem to think that is what a tequila slammer is…. Anyway I decide that a jug is what I need to calm my nerves but all the jugs have been taken by smart people who don’t want to line up again lol, so I make my way to the beer garden passing an old punter on stage grunting out raunchy lyrics to Christmas tunes, he was wearing an Santa hat, but I’m not sure if he was with us or if that way his stage outfit lol.
In the beer garden myself, Oscar, and Josh manage to make a scene singing Adam green really loudly while the group behind us lights up a phatty an starts giggling …. The call to move out is made.
Bar3
I get there and promptly order a jug (I did not want to be stuck in a freaking line for the rest of the night), I sit next to a Santa in a military jacket, first thing I do is start making full metal jacket quotes (god that is a good movie, I recommend it) and he starts quoting back, so I suggest to Oscar that he really needs ‘born to kill’ written on his Santa hat, Nick gets ‘thunder struck’ on his, and I get ‘Jessica**heart** Simpson’ on mine (its an Adam green joke if you don’t get it, you don’t get it) I get asked a large number of times if I like her, and respond with ‘no I hate her she has got it all wrong’ I remember one girl asking me and I told ‘her’ that ‘she’ had it all wrong…. Nick manages to foist the guitar off the live band, gets up on stage and drags some of his friends up there and they belt out a few pub anthems, Nick was good, his singers weren’t lol… the bell is rung and everyone cheers, the military guy stands up and yells ‘MOVE OUT!’.
Transit to bar 4
A few others and myself run ahead and start drunkenly greeting everyone we pass with wishes of merry Xmas and etc when we arrive at the bar we promptly get kicked out, simply because of past years, they did not want a large group of Santa’s making a ruckus and ruining there local business… fools.. so we continued on to bar 5
Bar5/transit to bar6
I’m first in the door, first to order my jug, I even warned the bar staff of what was to come lol, I sit down… nick comes and joins for a few seconds before he is swept away by groupies (female fans of his display of mad guitar skills at the last bar), he promptly fails with them and rejoins me who at the time was having a discussion about women with Amanda, we were talking about how women crave appreciation but will settle for attention… I think it might have degenerated from there because I can’t clearly recall what happened next, the beers were finally starting to take hold lol… I think I located an African America Santa, and had a bit of a racism rant with him, I think it ended on a positive note something like ‘people are people man, and people should accept people for that’ I’m not sure, I know I said people a lot because he said it a few and I started trying to fit it in wherever possible… lol…. Anyway the next time I look up I’m at a different bar…
Bar6/transit
I’m not really sure how I got there or where I was, I know that I joined the collective and mass jay walked a few times but that’s it… I wondered up some stairs but there were private functions going up there… but one of the Santa’s is ‘dude we got an invite come on’… next thing I know we are on the roof… drinking…. Something… uhh not sure about that…. And being a jerk to Oscar about the time I got my ass kicked on his behalf lol… sorry about that Oscar. And I dropped my ring… seriously it just disappeared, and incidentally Ryan disappeared at the same time… so I was all gawd damn it he must have snatched it…. So I ran to catch up… I’m not sure how this went down… I didn’t want to be a jerk about it, and when he said he did not have it I let it go… still a bit pissed off about it actually that was my favorite ring… so at this point I was ‘dude your drunk enough to drop something and not be able to find it you need food’ I grabbed Nick, asked him if he knew were we were going then dragged him off to the pancake manor because I wanted some waffles lol.. I get there funnily enough vanilla is working this shift, Nick and I order our food… I’m halfway through eating when I realize I only have five dollars left… and that the last train home leaves in like ten minutes … so I throw all my change at nick lol… I hope he was able to pay, told him I would pay him back and sprint for the train.
Going home
I get to the train station only to find that I missed it by like 3 minutes lol, I’m out of cash so there is no point going back to the pub crawl and I basically have no cheap way to get home lol…. So I catch a train to Bowen hills, spend all of my phone credit on hold trying to get a taxi… and start walking…. I got pretty seriously lost because I have no idea how to get home from Bowen hills, I tried to follow the train tracks, but lost them… eventually a cabbie took pity on me and picked me up.. he informed me I was going the wrong way and that I would have ended up in Hamilton… I decided to be honest with him and say that all my cash was at home lol… he really did not like that, he demanded to hold my phone and the digital camera as ransom till he got his fee.. I should not blame him, he is what society has made him, I staggered out of the cab, dropped all my stuff, had so much trouble getting the key in the door, I was so anxious that he was just going to piss off with the camera because I was taking so long, tripped over the couch .. got the money to him… got my shit back… and passed out for a while on the porch….all in all.. a good night lol.
Current Mood: 
hungry