Drinking Weekend
phaidenbauer • 15 Mar 2024 •
Another “short weekend” is coming up, as I will be doing a paramedic duty tomorrow morning (7am, until 4pm). Afterwards, there was a celebration of the retirement of the former CEO of the local Red Cross station, and since I wasn’t at the Christmas party last year, I decided to attend the event tomorrow.
There are already plans to get some beers with one of my colleagues, so I won’t even bother driving there and instead rely on my feet (who doesn’t like a drunk walk home?). It’s only about 2 kilometres, so it should take me maximum 20 to 30 minutes.
Depending on how many beers there will be, I guess Sunday will be a “wasted” day. So I did the only feasible thing today: stop working early and took a way too long nap on the couch.
Luckily, there are only a handful of occasions per year, where I’ll be drinking above my thirst. Thankfully, I also know my limit, so I never passed, unlike the many drunk people I “collected” in my duties. But I can feel that I can’t recover as fast from a night drinking out, then I used to.
Comments
+1 what Brandon said. I like that way of saying it haha
As far as I know, it is a common term in the Austrian speech. Is there something similar in English?
In English it’s probably “getting wasted” or “pissed drunk”
“drinking above my thirst” is a funny way to put it.