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Off The Cuff: Punch Drunk (No) Love

Posted by DFO

Feb. 6, 2009 9:38 a.m. • 9 comments

“Every time I go to John’s Alley, the drunkest person there finds me. They sense a kindred spirit. They know. I’m one of them. On Tuesday, this guy sits at the bar, and after 20 minutes of drooling on himself and staring at his drink, manages to scream, ‘Chinese food?!’ My beer-drinking compatriot with me translates, ‘I think he’s offering you Chinese food.’ I politely decline. At this, he takes his leave, but not before slurring, ‘Hasta luego, Taco.’ Hear this, Drunky: I will not now, nor will I ever be, your ‘Taco’/Editor Christina Lords, UI Argonaut. More Off The Cuff.

Question: Has a drunk ever hit on you? How did you handle it?

Nine comments on this post so far. Add yours!

hollykb on February 06 at 9:48 a.m.
On my 21st birthday, and at John’s Alley(!), some old staggering guy walked up to me and tried to get me to dance with him. I ignored him and went back to my boyfriend. :\
jazzyvandal on February 06 at 9:55 a.m.
I’ve been hit on by creeps at John’s Alley and at CJ’s. One of them was that Mubita guy who didn’t tell anyone he had HIV. *shudder* He was just creepy and I ran away!

Worst time for girls in Moscow is during Mardi Gras. The creeps of the Palouse come out preying on the college girls.

It’s important to always have a friend with you.
Kibby on February 06 at 12:57 p.m.
My policy has always been “don’t make eye contact”. That works most of the time. But when it doesn’t….I sike my boyfriend on them and he diplomatically “removes” them from the area. If said boyfriend is not there, then I go park myself next some other big guy that I know.
JamesBond on February 06 at 5:34 p.m.
Well, I’m a dude, and I guess I’ve probably done this to a few girls in my day, but one time a super drunk and pretty cute chick that was just TRASHED hit on me, hard. I was so stunned by it that I did not know what to do, for a while.
Kage_Mann on February 06 at 5:46 p.m.
One time I was hit on my some young chick from Peabodys, who thought I was somebody else.We promptly,went outside for an hour or so ;-) and then when she wanted to go back inside with her friends, I promptly left. Gawd, the stories I could tell about that place!

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.