Clubbing

So after much cajoling, my girlfriend finally convinced me to go out clubbing with her for her birthday on Saturday. Having been slightly hung over all day Sunday (I'd have been happier to be very hung over in the morning and fine later on) I think I have just about enough thoughts in order to blog about it. So in the immortal words of Kel, awwww here goes.

The night consisted of:
- Getting takeaway and chatting for a while.
- Going to The Ship
- Going to Warehouse

Takeaway was all good but I was missing for a lot of it trying to find some ID, having a shower and getting ready.

Firstly, being what Eric Idle once termed 'merely an amateur drinker,' I didn't down quite as much as everybody else. This is my key problem - to me, drinking is not an activity. It is something to be done in addition to other activities. So as much fun as it was to hang around in The Ship, the pub I consider to be 'my local,' the weight of drinking was not really enjoyable to me, even if I do like a few.

Warehouse was where things kind of fell apart, for a number of reasongs.

- Clubbing is great, if you like to dance. I don't. Meaning I had nothing to do but sit and drink, which I did for a while (although Warehouse don't do my favourite drink). Thing is, all my friends (well, the ones I came with, I found some others upstairs) were dancing.
- If you go with friends, you may as well not have bothered, because the music is too loud to talk to them and on a dancefloor you get separated within seconds. Plus the music is also too loud for them to get a phone message.
- If you don't like the music, too bad, because it's loud as hell and will just keep pounding at you.
- Time may fly when you're having fun, but when you're bored it's verrrryyyy sllllooowwwww.


On the plus side, I expected to be utterly miserable all night, but I did have a bit of fun, and the rest of the time was just plain bored - an improvement on the expected misery. I can see myself doing it again as a favour to my girlfriend (it was her birthday after all) but not sure how often it'll happen that aside. Plus we need to find a club that does Kopparberg!