...And You Are?!

On Saturday night I went over to a friend's apartment to chill and have a glass of wine on her rooftop area (which coincidentally was also the same thing EVERYONE in her building decided to do because of the nice weather). The minute we stepped outside, this woman waved at me and started talking to me like we were BFF. Since I am never one to turn down talking to drunken strangers, I immediately started random conversation back. She was pretty out of control drunk (on Smirnoff pomegranate and SUNNY D no less, which I proceeded to make fun of intensely--I mean, I drank Sunny D with my lunch box every day in lower and middle school, but honestly I haven't seen it since), and I am pretty sure she invited me to join in on renting out a "party boat" in the Potomac. Anyway, after she briefly stepped out to get more alcohol (and by brief I mean she made us "save her seats" while she left for about an hour), I had one of those...WOW.."you never know who you might meet acting irresponsibly when they have real life commitments"...moments. As it turns out, drunk girl was married to this guy in her group who was wearing shades and dog tags (REAL COOL BUDDY), she had been married for TEN years, and they had an 8 year old child (which would explain the Sunny D) who was asleep in their apartment downstairs SANS nanny. She kept asking me if leaving her child alone was OK (since "8 years old was old")...and I really could do nothing in response except shake my head and go "ehhh", as if the kid's only problem was that he was alone, not that his parents were drunk of their asses. If that was not enough of an insane twist of conversation-life story, drunkie was also only 28 (she swears she was married for love--not pregnancy--and that she was still in love--but, these days, what is love worth marrying about at 18 years old), and her husband was worried that she would not make it to work in the morning as, GET THIS, a COP in DC. How...Ironic. I guess that is what they mean by  DC's Finest. After listening to a lot of crazy, and getting in a lot of awkward laughs, ultimately all I can say from meeting my new friend was...well, at least she gave us free hot dogs.