Some great stories in this thread.
I have so many of my own that it is hard to select just one, but at one point in our early twenties, my friends and I became infatuated with smashing beer bottles on our heads. It was a great party trick and pretty hard core, but we got to the point that we were doing it literally every night, constantly trying to up the ante and outdo each other with our badassery.
Some lowlights:
Drinking in a bar in Saskatoon and there is a crew of us and we are ordering bottles of Canadian on special for two bucks apiece, 24 at a time. We are drinking so fast that the bottles are piling up on the tables and we go crazy and start smashing them on our heads, our own heads, each other's, a total frenzy. We are tucked into a bit of an alcove by the pool tables so not totally visible to the rest of the bar. Waitress comes around the corner and nearly drops the tray of beers she's bringing. The whole floor, both pool tables, all the chairs, are covered in broken glass. Total mess. I remember leaving very shortly after.
Our house was a shoes-only zone due to broken glass hazard.
The end of it actually came when a friend actually slashed his ear almost off with a bottle at a house party. We tried to patch him up in the bathroom with toilet paper and electrical tape but it didn't take. I remember hanging out with him having a smoke and the blood-soaked bandage just slid off his tattered ear and was dangling from the wreckage. I looked like Reservoir Dogs. We got him to the hospital and several hours of emergency plastic surgery got his ear back to a pretty reasonable state. After that the fad just kind of died out.
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