If you do not dwell on this, then neither will anyone else.

Okay...It already happened.
And it doesn't sound too brutal.
Thank your lucky stars. ****

Learn a life lesson from it.
You have got to take something positive from it.
Make it count.

Then move on.
Everyone else has.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Didn't do or say anything outrageous, thankfully.

Just got messy drunk, even needed help at the end of the night maneuvering up the steps.

Thanks to those who say it may not have been as bad as I think it was. My husband did say it was more funny than annoying.

Was it social anxiety?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Didn't do or say anything outrageous, thankfully.

Just got messy drunk, even needed help at the end of the night maneuvering up the steps.

Thanks to those who say it may not have been as bad as I think it was. My husband did say it was more funny than annoying.

If you needed help walking up steps, that's pretty bad. And if I saw a colleague this drunk, I'd definitely think less of them, and think they're a lame for not being able to handle their liquor. I'd mentally be shaking my head at them every time I see them at work.

Wow, you're judgmental to an extreme. How do you get any work done with all that head shaking?

Sounds like judging inability to handle liquor, not drinking

Anonymous wrote:Just one more thought. Think that a real downside was losing out in making stronger connections with acquaintances who I could actually see becoming friends with both my husband and me. The wife of one couple, for example, doesn't drink and I think my getting drunk perhaps makes her think twice about getting together at other social eventa. Has any of you cut off friends because they got sloppy drunk?

I don't drink due to alcoholism in my family. I wouldn't cut off a friend because they drink - we have some good friends who I think are active alcoholics. I know and they know they're not going to quit drinking so I don't try to convince them of that. But if I saw an acquaintance drinking too much, I would be reluctant to seek them out as a closer friend. I would figure we just don't socialize the same way - I'm willing to hang with heavy drinkers now and then because they're already my friends but I wouldn't seek out new heavy drinkers for friendship. It's not a judgment thing - it's just that I don't get to drink (and I would like to) so I don't want to hang with people who do that a lot.

But if this is a one-time event, OP, I would probably change my mind about hanging with you.