• @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    201 month ago

    But seriously, this is often the best parts of the evening. I have a buddy who lives near me, and I think the reason we’re so close is because neither one of us drive, so to and from any social event, we’ve been walking and talking for a couple hours.

    I tell myself I’d and still walk if I got a car, but I also told myself I’d hang out outdoors even after it was safe to gather indoors. Once you have the lazy option, it’s too easy to take it.

  • @Godric@lemmy.world
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    161 month ago

    Back in college I used to walk 2 miles to my buddy’s place to party, and then walk 2 miles back to campus hammered if I wanted to sleep in my own bed.

    Good times.

  • Lord Wiggle
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    141 month ago

    This is the opposite of hangouts with my friends. Why would you come by car, you cannot drink then. All my friends come by bike. Cycling while drunk is no issue, as long as there’s proper cycling infrastructure like in The Netherlands where I live. Sometimes there’s someone stupid enough to come by car, they have to pay 7 euros per hour parking fees and have to stay sober all night. But most of my friends don’t even have a car and live within 2km cycling distance. Others who live further away take the train.

  • @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    91 month ago

    Love this. I think not having driving was a huge contributor to my introvertedness/social anxiety. My friends were always super accommodating, but night after night I would end up stuck in places I didn’t want to be, entirely at the mercy of someone else. Was my ride drinking? Guess I’m sleeping on the floor of some weird house I don’t want to be at. My social battery would drain by 10pm and I would have to bounce around asking various friends if I couple catch a ride with them when they left, and often didn’t get out of there until 3am. It wasn’t a situation I enjoyed being in. Sometimes it was easier to be the walking wizard.

    One night I was extremely drunk on Southern Comfort and mad/butt-hurt over something my love interest had said or done. Decided to walk all the way home at 2am. Unfortunately that was a 14 mi/22 km walk through a rural area, deeply intoxicated with no water. It was beautiful hearing the roosters crow over sleepy little farms at sunrise, but by the time I finally made it home I collapsed onto my bed sobbing in misery. I slept for eleven hours and spent the next day or so recovering. It’s not always noble to be the walking wizard.

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      41 month ago

      Just bring a bedroll with you everywhere you go. When you tire of company, start for home, but pace yourself, and camp out midway on your journey.

    • @LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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      31 month ago

      22km is normal, you can be home by 7am. One time I tried to walk through a forest really drunk and realized I had stepped into a creek, made it out and slept sitting against a tree.

      It was really dark because the moon wasn’t up that night.

  • @alchemist2023@lemmy.world
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    81 month ago

    this was me about 30 years ago on a larp where at midnight we came across a mage in a circle… along with a scarecrow… I smacked the scarecrow with my sword and it screamed and lunged at me… I ran away bravely and as fast as possible straight into a tree, dropped my lantern and carried on screaming into the night. the most scared I’ve been in larp, proper suspension of disbelief. thanks for the memory 😆

  • IninewCrow
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    71 month ago

    Never to be heard from again … until 3,000 years later

    • @Soup@lemmy.world
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      31 month ago

      Our metro service ends at ~2am but we do have night busses until it stars back up at ~5:30am.

      I really want to see a return of rural villages instead “small towns” that are spread out over more area than my self-sufficient mid-density neighbourhood for no reason and hard to service with non-car transit.