Senior Crawl

About this time five years ago, when I was 22, I particapated in one of the great Ohio State Traditions. I went on Senior Crawl. The tradtion was started mainly because Ohio State students like to drink and the thursday before graduation after all the classes were done was a good time to get so drunk you had to crawl home. The idea is you start at either the north or south end of campus, depending on where you might want to finish or how far you had to crawl. You would also wear a white shirt and get drink tally and have all your friends you see on the way sign their name or such. I still have both of the shirts I wore on my senior crawl.

My first senior crawl started really without a plan. I wasn't technically graduating at the time, so I wasn't planning on crawling. I was planning on digging into my 30 pack of busch light that I got started on the night before and having an easy night. That is until absentminded called me up, asked me what I was doing, and then told me I was going on senior crawl with him because I was an awesome friend and drinker. So I put on my most plainest white T, and waited on absentmindeds arrival to my apartment. He came with a girl that I already knew and one I didn't. Anyways we shotgunned some busch lights and headed south to the panini's and got further started. The idea is you drink at least one drink every bar you stop at and then move on. Most of my companions drink at about half the rate I do, so I drank at least two beers every place we went to. I can't recall the exact order of events, but I can recall some highlights from my pov.
-ordering three pitchers of beer from mama's pasta and brew and drinking one of them by myself while the rest of the party drank the other two.
-passing on a shot of sake from bento go-go
-finding 40 dollars on the ground right before we went to the last bar, we used it to buy shots, which I puked up right after I left mianis. The shot was the three wise men.
-going to almost every bar along the way.
The lowlight of the night was when I tried to get back in my apartment building. I couldn't get the key to my back door to work, so I had to go around front. For some reason I walked around so I could see my explorer, only to realize it wasn't there. Panicking, I called the hotline from the sign, and then went to check the internet and call some police. After some time, I found out my car was parked on the street on street sweeping day and was towed. So I had to wake up in the morning, and go and get my car from the tow lot 45 minutes away and downtown. Not the best way to end that year.

I had a more official senior crawl when I was actually graduating in fall of 05. Nasamatt, and TexasKyle were graduating with me also, so we attempted a crawl. I had a girlfriend at the time, and she ended up being not so happy about the whole thing. I stopped at the first three bars and chugged down my drinks real quick like. I then went back to her place, talked things out a bit and headed back out with her. By that time, nasamatt had overdone it and was ready to call it a night. So me and the girl walked/drug nasamatt back to the place. I was in such a hurry to leave that I had lost my keys, and needed nasamatts keys to get in anyways. It turns out I lost the keys in our parking lot, but it was hard to decipher that after some drinking.

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