My Fasching Vow
It has been quite a while since I drank to get drunk. Perhaps I had one too many hangovers or woke up in one too many strange beds. Maybe I just grew up. I don’t know, but sometime during the past five years or so drinking to get drunk simply lost its thrill for me. I would now classify myself as a “social drinker.” I still drink, but not to excess and usually only with a meal.
Some people who no longer drink to excess can still have fun when attending a function where most of the people are drunk. They simply enjoy the atmosphere or like to merely observe the foolish things others do when drunk. Not me. If I am surrounded my drunken idiots while I myself am sober I quickly lose all patience and want nothing more than to escape the madness.
For this reason I have never really enjoyed Munich’s famous Oktoberfest and though I missed the bulk of the celebration, I wasn’t all that impressed with the aftermath of “Fasching Dienstag” when I was downtown today.
Fasching is Bavaria’s version of Mardi Gras or Carnival (Karnevale) complete with a parade, funny costumes, and rivers of alcohol. I’m sure had I been drunk it would have been a blast. But I wasn’t and so it was merely loud, crowded, and cold. I vow that next year I will either avoid it all together or be completely plastered!
9 February 2005 at 12:36
Actually, Fasching just doesn’t belong to Bavaria, it’s celebrated nation wide, but its really big in Cologne. Anyway, welcome to the world of Fasching. Sorry it wasn’t exactly to your liking. You sort of sound like me. Are you turning into a Fasching’s Muffel too? LOL Hang in there girl!
9 February 2005 at 17:40
Interesting… I knew that it (Fasching or Karnevale) was celebrated here, in Cologne, and in Mainz to name a few, but I was under the impression that up in the northern and more Protestant areas it wasn’t. I guess even after all this time (!) (almost three years) I am still learning about Germany… go figure!
10 February 2005 at 02:53
i can only remember ONE occasion when i got so drunk that i puked..otherwise i dont’ drink much - like once in a blue moon! Not that i’m righteous or anything, i just don’t like the taste
10 February 2005 at 16:26
HA! You are getting ooold!
I vote for getting plastered next year. Thanks for the laugh.