When I was in HS I dated this guy my senior year. We’ll call him the swimmer. After HS he moved 2 hours north with his parents. We dated that summer but that fall when I stared college I broke up with him because college was too much fun. It was a bad breakup. Looking back, I was an ass to him. But whatever.
So, after about a year of playing the field I kinda missed him. We talked a few time, I went to his sisters wedding with him, etc. Then we stopped talking. About that time one of my HS friends was getting married. Perfect! My shot to show him how hot I was and how much fun I was having single.
But that wouldn’t make for a funny story, would it? Nope.
At this time I had recently chopped my hair off really short and it was newly blond. I really didn’t know how to fix it myself for a wedding so I went to my favorite gay hairdresser for him to work his magic. I told him what I wanted. I wanted it chunky and messy ala Meg Ryan in the late 90’s. Well, it seems my hairdress has 1) no idea who Meg Rayn is or 2) hates me. He spends a good hour screwing with my hair and at the end it looks like my hair is up in rollers, sans the rollers!
OMFG! I want to cry, but I’m running very late for the wedding. So I get dressed in my ass kicking black dress with hooker heels. Yes, I wore black to a wedding. They were 19 years old, they didn’t care.
So I’m in the car driving trying to fix me hair so I don’t look like my nana. I get to the church and I’m still pulling Bobby pins out of my curl fro. Thankfully my old BFF is sitting next to me and I give him all the pins to hold in his pocket.
At this point my hair is so-so. I hate it, but it’s not enough to make small children run in fear. The reception goes on with little excitement. Ex-BF barely acknowledges my existence. After the wedding we all head out to a bar, ex included. Now we are all 19yrs old so I don’t quite know why they served us, but they did. And they did a lot.
By now I’m quite drunk. Trying my best to look cute, fun, and like the “one that got away”. Looking back I’m guessing I looked: drunk, desperate and like “the one that forgot her lithium”. Now I have to go to the bathroom. I grab my BFF for this venture as we don’t fly solo to the restroom. And now my hooker heels fail me. I go to get off the bar stool and my heel gets stuck in one of the rungs.
Down I go like a ton of bricks. I don’t think I actually hit the floor, just sprawled off the stool ever so elegantly. It’s at this time I hear the ex-bf call me a “silly drunk bitch”.
Oh snap! Thankfully I had too much vodka in my system to give a damn. Me and my BFF just started laughing and sauntered to the restroom. I think the ex-bf left after that but I’m not sure. I stopped acknowledging his existence after that.
Funny how 12 year later I still remember that like it was yesterday.