Green Beer Day
The police just left. I called them about fifteen minutes ago. There was a man who was stumbling around our parking lot trying the doors on every car. He managed to open a few doors, enter them, and then leave. As he wandered around he mumbled things like, "Where's my car?" "You STOLE my CAR!"
The police arrested him and decided to cite him for public intoxication. As the police were putting him in the car, my landlady explained to me that she had had a car towed this morning (presumably his), it was blocking the complex' dumpster. How drunk was he now? I don't know. But my landlady discovered the car at 8:00 AM and decided to give the driver until 9:00 before having it towed.
Last year, my friend Hayley posted a blog about green beer day and we had a few good laughs about the stupidity of the day. Now, I'm just irritated that there are people willing to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to begin a twenty-four hour period of drinking. It's embarrassing to see my peers doing unwise things while intoxicated.
On a side note, I still feel a little bad for the guy. Not only has his car been impounded, he's been arrested, cited for public intoxication (at 11:30 AM no less), he's probably going to catch a cold. He'd lost his jacket in his stumblings and was only wearing a t-shirt.
Posted by Mendon at March 9, 2006 11:37 AMOne of my classmates for my trip to Dominica invited the rest of the class to meet uptown for dinner and drinks in honor of Green Beer Day. When we are leaving at 4:30 am the next morning, I might add. So far today I haven't encountered any drunken people, but I have a feeling tomorrow might be an interesting day of travel.
Posted by: Hayley at March 9, 2006 12:21 PMOops, I keep forgetting to fix my blog link. There.
Posted by: Hayley at March 9, 2006 12:23 PMHe will get a warm bed, clean clothes, a ride home and a warm meal while there. Probably better off than wandering around stone cold drunk without a coat for hours till he sobered enuff to figure his car was towed. Sad, he was probably visiting with one of your fellow tenants. Maybe he is one of your fellow tenants.
Posted by: papa D at March 9, 2006 1:22 PMDoes green beer result in green... uh, well, you know...
Posted by: Christophe at March 9, 2006 2:50 PMWow. I imagine there's a whole slew of stupid holidays, but that's the stupidest thing I've heard of - at least lately. . .
Posted by: Mara at March 9, 2006 3:16 PMIt ocurred to me at 7:40 this morning that a large number of students here at Miami strike me as resembling deer with lawyers.
frightening thought, eh?
You mean Green Beer Day has nothing to do with St. Patrick's Day? I thought maybe you were a bit early. Another Green Beer Day?
Posted by: Ma at March 10, 2006 10:06 AMSeeing that St. Patrick's Day falls on Spring Break, Green Beer Day is substituted so that you can get drunk and act like an idiot with ALL of your college friends, not just the ones that will be with you in Cancun.
You were right; Green Beer Day = St. Patrick's, minus the religion, minus the correct day, minus the Irish.
Wow! That's minus a lot!
Posted by: Ma at March 10, 2006 12:32 PM