Can I Say No to Going Out?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In this weeks retrospective episode Vic and Hamish say what it was like going to those first big events and if they could ever say no!
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| 0:00.0 | Another big piss up is family gatherings. |
| 0:08.0 | So Christmas lunches, baby showers, funerals, barbecues, birthdays. |
| 0:12.0 | Your family's expectations, the stress that that brings, particularly if you bring like a new partner into the frame. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, even worse. |
| 0:19.0 | And a lot of comparisons are made. |
| 0:22.7 | You crack a joke and everyone finds it funny. |
| 0:26.8 | It's a stressful environment that most people choose to boo through, |
| 0:28.7 | I think particularly Christmas, right? |
| 0:30.2 | I mean, that's got to be the big one. |
| 0:32.4 | Christmas is so huge. |
| 0:34.9 | It's about boozing from start to finish. And no wonder sober people often relapse around that time of year because you've got Christmas and you've got New Year and everybody you know is drinking is a really, really hard time. My birthday is on the 20th as well. So I've got 20th birthday, 25th Christmas, 31st New Year's Eve. It's like a mega 11 day drinkathon. Actually, we'll do a podcast about that when that time of year comes. |
| 0:55.6 | Yes, it'll be coming around pretty soon, Hange, before you know it. |
| 0:58.3 | But you've got a birthday story you want to share. |
| 0:59.7 | Well, I've got all my birthdays were pretty messy. I was trying to pick a few out when I was thinking of this, like which were my messiest ones? I remember on my 18th my dad driving me back from a club and me puking into my lap and him saying that he was proud. |
| 1:12.7 | We're going to go. |
| 1:13.3 | We're going to go one for one on birthday. Okay, go on. So my 18th birthday, I ended up snogging a 52-year-old in Harrogate. And exactly preceding the snog, she was telling me a story about how she was looking forward to spending this Christmas with her three kids who were 24, 22 and 21. And they were older than you. Yeah. Oh, she got three kids older than me. Then she lent in. I was like, oh, I have to kiss her. Talk about peer pressure. I had three mates who are watching me from the table next door. I was like, to my 18th birthday. She's lent in. I had to kiss her. Good snog, was it? I can't actually remember. Oh, that's a shame. Yeah, we're not in touch anymore. |
| 1:46.9 | I think of her quite often. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah. Next door, it's my 18th birthday. She's lent in. I have to kiss her. Good snog, was it? I can't she remember. |
| 1:47.4 | That's a shame. We're not in touch anymore. I think of her quite often. Quite often. |
| 1:47.4 | You were just thinking about it today, won't you? |
| 1:50.9 | I ended up at a house party on my 21st with my coat on fire. |
| 1:56.7 | I'd put a cigarette in my top pocket and then zipped up my coat. |
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