Beer

I wrote an essay on beer and its effects. Its supposed to be a descriptive essay. But, this is only a rough draft. so comments and corrections and advice are welcome.

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As I walked in the room, the smell of beer stuck to my nostrils. Another weekend, another party. So goes the college life. And as we all know, you don’t go to a party for the most part and stay sober. However, tonight I chose to because I knew that people were going to need some help tonight getting into bed. But, you have to wonder why kids do this to themselves. It can’t possibly be to have fun, because stumbling around and throwing up what you just drank isn’t my idea of a good time.
A typical part of a college student’s life is going to parties and having a good time. This is absolutely normal, but the part that isn’t is drinking yourself into the ground. College students on average, consume over 55 six-packs of beer (or the equivalent of 330 beers) and a total of $446 on alcohol. This is pretty outrageous. There really is no reason for people to be drinking as much as they do. Even when I go out, I never drink to get drunk, which is the motive behind many college students, and even teenagers. Usually, when they get this drunk, people begin to do dumb things, which I have already witnessed.
When we walked into that party the other night, people were already so drunk that you could tell exactly what they had been drinking by just talking to them and smelling their breath. Cigarette smoke filled the air making it a little difficult to breathe without choking on the smoke. There were already people that were passing out on couches in the living room, and it was quite difficult to move due to the swelling waves of people. You had to keep your arms at your sides and say “excuse me” every two steps just to make sure you didn’t offend an angry drunk. And you also had to be careful that you didn’t slip while walking because there was a thin veneer of beer on the floor.
When all of my friends finally got to where beer was being handed out, they all made sure to grab more than one just so they didn’t have to fight through that ocean of drunken college students that I described earlier. Upon walking back upstairs, people were crowding the bar begging for mixed drinks. This is where you could probably take a breath and get drunk from the fumes of the vodka. People were shouting out drinks and the bar tenders just kept pouring. However, after a while, people started to get out of hand.
While sitting down at the couch monitoring my friends and how much they’ve had to drink that night, I heard a scream and I saw a drink come out of no where and hit a girl completely drenching the girl it was intended to hit and some other innocent bystanders. Two drunk girls began to yell at each other exclaiming words like, “slut” or “whore” and they were even taking shots at each other’s size and weight. It took two large guys to break up the almost fight. Soon after they were separated, the girls began drinking again and seemed to completely forget that they almost threw punches at each other.
Ignoring the amount of alcohol these girls both consumed, why do people get angry when they’re drunk? Sure your judgment is impaired and you aren’t your normal self, but how can you simply pick a fight with someone else for no reason? Seriously. If you get angry that easily when drunk, you should first off not be drinking to completely avoid the problem, or do something with your anger other than use it for fighting. This whole drinking idea seems absurd at this point.
Anger is not the only way that people can get themselves in trouble or just look plain dumb for drinking. We all know the one person that makes a complete fool out of himself or herself when they’re drunk. Me and my friends discovered who this person on our floor was extremely early. Without mentioning names, he lives at the end of our floor in our dorm, Leo. The only reason that people know him is because he is a complete moron when he is drunk. Recently, he came back to the dorm completely trashed and people offered to give him two dollars each to run down our hallway naked. I found all of this out after I stuck my head outside my door to find out what all of the yelling was. When I did, I saw a stark naked man running down the hallway. Is it really necessary to run around naked while you’re drunk?
Once again, this is where judgment comes into play. If you cannot even see straight, it is never a good idea to let people know you are drunk. They’ll take advantage of you faster than the amount of time it took you to funnel those three beers. People just need to realize their limits and if they know that they are not in a good place to make a judgment call, they need to sit down or go to bed. That’s just the bottom line. Don’t do anything dumb or something you wouldn’t do when you’re sober.
Clearly, drinking isn’t as appealing as its made out to be. In commercials, you always see people having a great time, men getting all of the pretty girls, and girls getting all of the attention. However, the one thing they don’t show is later that night when that good-looking guy or girl is passed out on their toilet throwing up. Getting drunk is clearly not as great as it’s meant to seem. So to all of you people that insist on drinking yourself into a coma, please stay away from me. I don’t want to associate with you. I don’t want to see the horrors of drinking first hand. Thanks.