In college I had a part time job as banquet bartender at a hotel. The majority of my coworkers were students and we frequently spent long hours together; including our Friday and Saturday nights. This led to your typical inter office hook ups and after hours drinking into the early morning hours.
On a Saturday night while bar tending an event with a light drinking crowd, I came up with a novel idea to hold a raffle after I found a roll of raffle tickets in a storage closet; the winning prize would of course be a date with me. I made my rounds around the hotel and gave a ticket to every girl in the banquets department. It didn’t matter if they were single or taken, they all got a ticket.
At the end of the night I drew the wining ticket and the girl who won was definitely not single. Many of the girls thought I was joking and threw their tickets away but not this girl. I told her I could draw another ticket ( I wanted to so I could go out with a single girl) but she said no. She called me out and told me I would have to take her out.
We decided on a night and came to an agreement to allow another one of her girl friends to go with us so that her boyfriend wouldn’t think it was weird. We met up for drinks at a bar and using my financial aid money, we began to get drunk. We skipped dinner altogether and somehow met up with another coworker and another friend who just recently became single. The group count stood at: two single guys, one single girls, a just recently single girl and a girl with a boy friend.
We went to another bar and had a few more drinks. It was getting late but none of use were ready to call it a night so we all went back to the girl’s house who had the boyfriend. We played a few drinking games; it turned into a game of making out. I don’t know how but it did. My make out count stood at: one single girl, one recently single girl and yes one girl with a boyfriend.
Since we were all too drunk to drive home, we all crashed at her place. In the morning I woke up half naked in a bed with a girl who had a boyfriend. what the hell, how did that happen? I don’t know but what I do know is that my raffle was a huge success. Well, that was until her boy friend, who also happens to work with us, finds out about his girl friend’s actions. That made for some very awkward moments at work.
Lesson 1: If you are going to throw a raffle for a date with yourself, don’t give any raffle ticket to any girls with boy friends — technically, if something does happen, it’s not like you are the one cheating but it is frowned upon. Don’t worry, Karma got me back when it hooked me up with an OCD girl who couldn’t keep her legs closed either — lesson 2: don’t be “that guy”
Another drinking related work story mother #$@%$#
