Showtime, Synergy!

Drunk people are some of my very favorite people.

Not angry drunks.

Not moody drunks.

Really, ridiculously, talking a little too loud, invading your personal space drunks.

And when Mrs. Jay and I were young, we seemed to encounter these type of drunks on a frequent basis. (Don't ask why - we typically avoided high school keggers.) And some of our best drunk encounters happened when we were camping at the beach.

There was a time that a drunk guy came up to my face, and thisclose said to me, "Do you know what ocean that is?"

I said, "Um, the Pacific Ocean."

"But how can you really know it's the Pacific," he said. "Until you strip naked and swim it at night?"

Before I could answer and/or strip naked, he hopped over the fence and jumped off the cliff above the beach.

Wait, that's story isn't so funny now that I think about it, though he did survive as I remember it.

Mostly we just used drunk people as a test audience for our most outrageous lies. Our standard one went something like this:

Us: "Hey, want to see our dance routine?"
Drunk people: (Too loudly) Yes!

(We perform a dance routine with lots of jazz hands and some freestyle tap dancing.)

Drunk people: (Practically screaming) You are sooo good!

Us: Yeah, well we were on Star Search once. Our group was called Synergy. We got 3 and a quarter stars for that routine, but the other group, Dancetastic got 3 and THREE quarter stars. So we went home empty-handed."

Drunk people: (Thinking they're whispering, but they're still shouting). "You were robbed!"

Us: "Yeah, it was painful. We're getting therapy."

What's your best drunk encounter?

And, yes, Synergy is a tribute to Jem. (Coincidentally, we used to dress up like Jem and the Holograms in high school, but that's another story.)