Worst thing that's happened to you after a night out?

dilallio · 13-05-2021 6:10pm

Probably 1986 or '87, I was leaving a niteclub in Galway one night when it started raining.

I was starving but only had a fiver left, so it was a choice of either a taxi home or food followed by a wet walk home.

As I walked towards Eyre Square, I suddenly remembered that I still had a tenner in my bank account and my atm card in my pocket, so I made a beeline for Supermacs, and purchased a snack box and drink.

With the snackbox and drink clutched closely to my chest, I walked over to the Pass Machine in Eyre Square and carefully took out my pass card.

In those days, the atm's were protected by a sliding glass panel which would retract when a card was inserted, allowing access to the keypad.

I inserted the pass card, the glass panel retracted, and I placed the snack box and drink on the atm and entered my PIN.

It was the wrong PIN, so I tried again. Wrong again! The third time I again entered the wrong PIN and the atm swallowed my card and the glass panel suddenly slides back down.

With my snack box and drink still inside!

Had to walk home in the rain still starved

Canyon86 · 13-05-2021 7:36pm

Think I was around 19/20 at the time

Got bollocked drunk, legless, booted out of a local pub and a nightclub and stumbled home taking a bad fall smashing my face to bits, honestly looked like I had been bottled, all I remember is being patched up at home by some buddies who found me on the way,
Still have a slight scar to this day on the bridge of my nose, foolish carry on

Motivator · 13-05-2021 8:56pm

dilallio wrote: »

Probably 1986 or '87, I was leaving a niteclub in Galway one night when it started raining.

I was starving but only had a fiver left, so it was a choice of either a taxi home or food followed by a wet walk home.

As I walked towards Eyre Square, I suddenly remembered that I still had a tenner in my bank account and my atm card in my pocket, so I made a beeline for Supermacs, and purchased a snack box and drink.

With the snackbox and drink clutched closely to my chest, I walked over to the Pass Machine in Eyre Square and carefully took out my pass card.

In those days, the atm's were protected by a sliding glass panel which would retract when a card was inserted, allowing access to the keypad.

I inserted the pass card, the glass panel retracted, and I placed the snack box and drink on the atm and entered my PIN.

It was the wrong PIN, so I tried again. Wrong again! The third time I again entered the wrong PIN and the atm swallowed my card and the glass panel suddenly slides back down.

With my snack box and drink still inside!

Had to walk home in the rain still starved

Hmmm, I’ve heard that story happen to someone in Cork, Limerick and Dublin too. Unless you’re so unlucky to have it happen on 4 or 5 occasions? ðŸ€”

PTH2009 · 14-05-2021 12:26am

They had ATMs in the 80s ? learn something new everyday

Remember i fell asleep in many a nightclub/pub toilet and security/staff taking me out. You need that power snooze during a heavy session

cena · 14-05-2021 1:36am

A former friends top slipped at the end of the night. Boobs showing to everyone. I had to help her after she had one drink too many

tjc28 · 14-05-2021 1:44am

broke my ankle hopping over a fence a week before going to Glastonbury. went anyway on crutches but mud and crutches dont mix. left after day. I did not enjoy watching it on bbc

Jacob13 · 14-05-2021 2:17am

Genital warts

JeffreyEpspeen · 14-05-2021 2:24am

I laid down on the middle of the road on a bend.

I also laid down in a ditch once and ended up in a stream somehow.

Sleepy · 14-05-2021 1:55pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

They had ATMs in the 80s ? learn something new everyday

We did, and Ireland were actually world leaders in the technology at the time! Bank of Ireland actually opened its first ATM back in 1980 in Stillorgan.

My Dad worked on the tech side of things so I got a tour of the (literally bomb-proof) bunker that hosted the mainframe the system ran on in the late 80s. I remember being most impressed at the time with a map on the wall that they'd wired with LEDs to indicate every pass machine in the country where the lights would change colours if any machine had a fault or ran out of cash. Another interesting thing about the tech at the time was that one of the lead developers responsible for the software it was running on was totally blind: he coded on a braille keyboard. Debugging code is hard enough when you can read it, must be a bloody nightmare relying on a screen reader!

I remember thinking I was going to be rich when call-cards became a collectible as in the early 90's my Dad had gone over to some Phillips R&D department in Sweden on a technology exchange program a few years earlier and had brought me home some prototype Chip & PIN cards. Surely if the Goldeneye Call Card I had was worth £20, one of these must be worth a fortune! :rolleyes: It's mad to think though, that at this time Ireland's banks IT departments were actually ahead of major tech companies! It's all changed since they out-sourced everything but they used to be literal world-beaters at tech.

A customer information system they developed which my Dad was involved with the testing of was in service for almost two decades without a single bug ever being experienced and only needed a handful of patches in that time (one of them being to allow for longer telephone numbers iirc). That kind of thing is practically unheard of in todays world of Agile Software Development...

Claw Hammer · 14-05-2021 3:23pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

They had ATMs in the 80s ? learn something new everyday

They first appeared about 1979. Then there was a strike by bank staff and they couldn't be used for months.

Mister Vain · 14-05-2021 6:01pm

Abrakebra.

accensi0n · 14-05-2021 6:10pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

Abrakebra.

You broke your bra?

Mister Vain · 14-05-2021 6:30pm

accensi0n wrote: »

You broke your bra?

Kav_Piero · 14-05-2021 6:59pm

Got mugged near central bank by two scumbags off their head on cocaine about 7 years ago, knew I was in trouble as soon as they cornered me asking for a smoke, gave them everything I had in my pockets but they still still decided to dish out a beating and attempted to kick me full force in the side of the head while I was on the ground.

I will be forever grateful for the person who ran across the road and shouted “leave him alone” and definitely saved me from getting a severe head injury (They then decided to run after the person who was trying to help me).

Never felt the same going on a night out in town after that.

Duckworth_Luas · 14-05-2021 8:36pm

Went to the Southside Irish parade in Chicago which takes place in an Irish American neighborhood called Beverley and got hammered.

Their version of the Dart was out of commission, couldn't get a taxi so decided to start walking north to were I was living.

I walked into the middle of Englewood, probably the most notorious African American gang neighborhood at the moment in the US.

I had literally walked right into "destination fcuked".

Twice people stopped their cars to tell me, with my big Irish head, to go back.

Eventually a cop car picked me up and drove me to a 7 Eleven and got me a taxi home.

The cops were absolutely bemused at what an Irishman was doing in the middle of Englewood at 2 AM on a Saturday.

dinneenp · 14-05-2021 8:50pm

One summer in the US, went to a Baltimore Oriels baseball game. Much vodka before & during. Friends let me sleep in car outside a guys house after, didn't want to wake me and deal with my drunkenness. Woke up not knowing where I was, wandered through nearby woods, up embankment, hitched a lift to petrol station. Phoned cops saying I'm lost, drunk, don't know where I am, please help. Had head shaved, lost my tshirt, cuts head to toe. In the meantime a house was broken into, car stolen, cop chased it, car veered off road & thieves ran into the woods.

Cops arrived, pinned it on me, played good cop, bad cop, lying to me (you have a mark on your chest that's consistent with stering wheel when you crashed, your friend is next door, he confessed, why don't you etc.). Spent a night in jail handcuffed and leg cuffed with 20+ in Baltimore. Went in front of judge next day, released on bail (originally 20k, reduced to 700), got a lawyer, tried to retrace steps & get witness that'd prove I was at the game. Eventually made a deal with prosecution- I leave the country & after a year the file is wipped clean. This was dependent on the arresting cop agreeing to this. My lawyer said you wait here, I'm talking to him, when I walk back to you if I give you a signal it means he's not agreeing to it. You can then walk away, get a flight out of the US but never come back. Thankfully he agreed.

Oh, another night I lost my phone on a night out.

14-05-2021 8:53pm

dinneenp wrote: »

Oh, another night I lost my phone on a night out.

Who cares.:D

Sgt Hartman · 15-05-2021 12:52pm

I've a squeaky clean record when it comes to getting into fights on nights out, I never looked for nor found trouble thankfully. I've done some dumb self inflicted things alright such as collapsing in a heap after a Dutch Gold, Paddy Whiskey and Sheridan's Liqueur binge when I was 19.
I also broke my hand after punching a wall in a temper. I kept playing in my head a scenario which happened earlier that day when a hated work colleague made a snide remark at me. After too much booze I drove myself crazy and punched a wall giving myself a boxer's fracture. It wasn't my smartest moment

15-05-2021 1:05pm

You sound like Flash Gordon from Ted.

dinneenp · 18-05-2021 12:02pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Who cares.:D

Exactly, the phone loss was a joke.....

AndrewJRenko · 25-05-2021 8:07pm

Sleepy wrote: »

Another interesting thing about the tech at the time was that one of the lead developers responsible for the software it was running on was totally blind: he coded on a braille keyboard. Debugging code is hard enough when you can read it, must be a bloody nightmare relying on a screen reader!

I think he retired from BOI quite recently, a year or two back maybe. Great guy.

HalloweenJack · 25-05-2021 8:54pm

Got the **** kicked out of me at a session which me and two mates had gatecrashed. Three of us against twenty others. We all got a proper bating.

Got barred from a nightclub for punching a bouncer who was trying to calm my friend down.

Broke into a football stadium with some mates.

I actually have my guard up when I'm out back home but when I'm abroad I seem to let loose which has led to...

Having a dealer pull a gun on me in Seville. I had been dicking him about so I didn't really blame him.

Ending up in a strip club run by the Russian mafia in Vienna. We'd bought smokes off a guy on the street and took us there. Gave us drinks on the house too. We got out of there fairly quickly once we copped on.

Smoking a joint on the beach in Rio watching the sunrise with a randomer who tried to sell me weed.

Thankfully, I've copped on quite a bit. The latest of those stories was 2013 and even though I've done plenty of partying, I haven't got close to a situation as dodgy as mad as any of those.

YFlyer · 26-05-2021 2:40am

Eyebrows shaved when asleep in 150 Corbally, Limerick. Happened years ago.

Worst thing that's happened to you after a night out?

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