[Dion]

Originally Posted by flameswin

I'm a decent swimmer, but surprisingly not as good when I'm drunk, which almost led to drowning a few times.

At nature's hideaway where there's at least one drowning per summer, due to the strong current, I once was swimming across to the cliffs drunk and holding a beer I just opened.

I used all my energy to hold my beer above water, then felt myself going under, yet I still used my last ounce of energy to hold that beer above water, then I slipped under and had nothing left to get back to the surface.

A dozen meters or so down river I kind of resurfaced, but not really under my own power, it was weird. There was about a dozen people running after me, including friends that had seen me go under.

Literally almost died trying to save my beer. Moral of the story, always try to save your beer in any situation, it's what seperates us as Canadians from the rest of the world. We will die for our beer, those other cowards would preserve their own life first.

I can remember treading water in the middle of the Shuswap lake when my drunken former friends took the houseboat to another part of the lake without doing a head count. It was only 20 minutes later did they realise I was gone and they turned the boat around.