Okay so last year I had an awful fourth of July because it was a disaster from the get-go and I nearly got punched by a drunk. Yeah. well. SO I really thought it would be hard to top that. Boy was I ever wrong...
SO, Crystal, Brit, Kirt, and I are all staying at a hotel on WED. the 2nd and we go to the river and just sit out in some folding chairs in the water having a few drinks and eating some chips and sandwiches just hanging out. I quit drinking rather early. I had maybe 5 watermelon smirnoffs. They barely even gave me a buzz at that moment, but I was sober LONG before we left that night when the sun started going down. OKay. so. We get in the car and Crystal sees that she has a few missed calls. She calls her brother back and is arguing with him about something. Everyone is being quite while she is on the phone even though I'm kinda wishing she'd hurry up so I could turn the radio back up. I'm driving by the way. No one else was sober. Then she just starts BLUBBERING. I'm like freaked out because I hate to see a girl cry. So i was trying to check on her and then she tells us that her Grandfather passed out(again) that morning and that he almost didn't wake up but that he was fine now. I was actually pissed that her brother told her that in the middle of her vacation. Well, we go back the hotel and I give her a big hug and carry her bags to the room and everything calms down and we go to bed.
Well, thursday morning we head back down to the river for the same thing. THey told Kirt he could be DD today since I didn't get to enjoy myself yesterday. So I had a big bottle of strawberry margarita premixed drink. I think it was 1.something Liter. Not sure if it was closer to 2 or 1 but anyway. Not a heck of a lot. But I was feeling pretty good. I wasn't wasted by any means. I can clearly remember everything that happened next. If i was very drunk I wouldn't be able to walk up the rapids to where we parked, let alone carry two chairs and one end of the cooler you know? So... I get in the passenger seat and see that I have 3 or 4 missed calls. I called my friend Tiffany back.
She told me how our friend was arrested the day before and that she didn't know what to do. Someone said he tried sexually harrassing them. I told her I had no money but if i could be like a character reference or something, then I'd be more than happy to. THen i hung up with her because crystal and brit were in the backseat yelling and repeating everything I said and mocking me to the point that I couldn't hear what she was saying. I told them to shut up. Then I called my aunt. I told her about her friend dropping off an envelope at my house and then she asked if I had talked to my other aunt yet. I said no.
Well at this point Crystal and Brit start up again. My aunt told me they called hospice on my uncle. He has cancer so that means that its almost time. I said well is he okay? How much longer does he have?! And i couldn't even hear her because they were yelling so loud again. Then i turned around and said,"shut the f up! my uncle is probably going to die soon!" I turned back around and the signal had cut out. They started yelling at me some more. I turned around and said to crystal,"After how you acted yesterday when you found out about your Grandfather and now you are going to act like this to me? Why are you being mean to me?" and she and brit were both saying,"F#@* your uncle. F#@* him!" SO I tried to slap her mouth! But I was still buckled up so I couldn't even reach her face. Well then we got into this ridiculous sissy fight with our hands. You know what I mean? Well they kept yelling at me and it was driving me nuts. So i grabbed my phone and wallet and said,"Pull over!" I am lucky did, because I just opened the door and got out. I started walking. They drove off.
It was 14 miles from the hotel. After a few minutes of walking through these tall weeds that were cutting my legs and ankles and making me bleed, I saw them coming back. They pulled up beside me and I said,"You might as well go on, I'm stubborn." And they sped off. They honestly were beside me only long enough for me to say that, and then they just left me there. I walked along the road calling some people just to have someone to talk to for maybe an hour. I called my mom and told her where I was in case I got hit or kidnapped. Then I called a friend of mine and was telling him about everything and then I saw this cop car drive passed me. Then a few minutes later he drove by again and pulled over. I told my friend that I'd have to call him back.
The cop asked me what happened? I told him,"My friends left me on the side of the road and now i'm walking the 14 miles to the hotel." He asked for my ID and patted me down. All I had on was my sandals and swimshorts and a towel around my neck. He even commented,"oh, you don't even have pockets do you?" I said,"nope." Then he told me that he stopped because I was kinda walking funny but that he admitted it was probably because of my choice of shoes but that he wanted to give me a breathalizer because he could smell alcohol on my breath. I was a .16
Then he told me he was going to have to arrest me for public intoxication. I said,"Well, can I call my friends and see if they'll come back and get me?" and he said that he'd already made up his mind. I said,"But I can't afford a license." He said," huh?" I said,"I mean I can't afford a ticket..." THen he said,"Well its better than dying out here isn't it?" I almost told him no. :S
So then he told me he wasn't going to handcuff me. He let me sit up front. I was texting everyone I could think of trying to get help. My sister, my best friend dexter, a few other friends, my exgirlfriend. The cop told me the number of the station i'd be at so that I could have someone call up there. I texted the number to Kirt and told him to tell them what happened.
Then they put me in a different car, this time in the back because it had two officers up front. I cried a little, luckily i don't think they could tell because I still had on my sunglasses and I wasn't really making any noise. THen they took me in the station. I got my lovely mug shot. They made me change into the orange suit. I heard them say that my sister had called and that she'd have to come get me tomorrow because I was spending the night. Then the put me in the cells. I was directed by one of the other detainees to go to the back cell. Then I sat there in a dark cell shaking like a crack addicted needing a fix. They tried talking to me and said,"What are you in for?" I told them it was Public Intox. They snarled and said,"You don't even look DRUNK..." I said,"Yep... i know." Then the coaxed me out of my cell to show me some card tricks. I was like, this ain't half bad...
Then this one guy was saying something about Louisianna. I said that my dad was from there. Then the guy told me how he stabbed a black guy in the heart and gutted another when they held him up and also shot his brother in law for hitting his sister... I was like,"Gulp..."
So then i meandered over to my cell again and just layed there trying to go to sleep. I just kept thinking,"I bet they are all real worried about me now. They are probably going to be here when they let me out in the morning and I won't even need my sister to come..." Wrong again... I got to the jail at about 645 or 7pm... then after about a couple or 3 hours, they called my name. I was like,"yay, I bet they found a way to get me released!" I walk to the door and the officer said,"Just wanted to let you know that your friends came by and dropped off your bags and it is with your other things so you can get them when you are released tomorrow." I said,"Oh... right... okay." And then I told the other detainees and they were like,"Some friends." And I shrugged.