While I was at a party Friday night, sitting on the couch of a friend’s apartment I kept pondering this one question: When does “ Sorry I was drunk “ stop being an excuse?
I’ve already written about my dislike for creepers, but the one thing I dislike more than creepers are drunken creepers. And with that being said one of my biggest pet peeves is when people give excuses, so as you can already tell I never think “Sorry I was drunk” is a legit excuse. Now don’t get me wrong if you have a hilarious story to accompany your excuse then I might stand for it, but I do not find alcohol to be an excuse for anyone to inappropriately touch or talk to me.
Someone approached me after a party that occurred in the beginning of the semester and apologized for “getting too close” to me. He followed up the apology with a classic “Sorry I was drunk”. As you can imagine, I told him that I accepted the apology but not the lame excuse. The tragic part of this story isn’t that he used this excuse on me; it was that I’m positive I was not the first person to hear this excuse, and most likely the only one to tell him it was a dumb excuse. Why has society acknowledged being drunk as a real excuse? This is only teaching future generations that if they want to act foolish or speak their feelings that they should do so while drinking so that they secure an excuse in the occurrence that it goes wrong. In doing so we are teaching our future generations that instead of getting courage they should get a couple bud lights and call it a day. So I ask again: When does “Sorry I was drunk” stop being an excuse?
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