If Saved By The Bell can do a very tame version of the college years, so can I. In college, I was that guy. I drank a lot, I was sleazy, and I was only concerned with what benefitted me. Some would say I am still that way. One woman I dated said that my belief that I am not that guy was "bullshit." She is entitled to her opinion, no matter how wrong and deluded it is.
In college, I played the part of the drunken college guy and I had plenty of friends to lead me astray. Think Animal House without the fraternity. I was more like the character "Larry Kroger" played by Thomas Hulce. Mostly on the outside looking in but I did manage to get lucky once in a while. My friends were kind of like a fraternity of misfits. I had a great time. I will be the first to admit that.
Most of my stories involve me drinking. It was courage in a bottle. I made a drunken ass of myself more times than I care to remember and quite a few I do not remember at all. I was, and still am, a shy person. I had my share of relationship disasters (like watching a train wreck) but at that time, I preferred not to be in one. It made life much simpler. The funny thing about that was that as soon as you told a girl you did not want to be in a relationship, she had to have you.
College was where I had my first stalker. Having a stalker was like a badge of honor for me. It was great until she came after me with a gun and I had to hide out at my friend Mike's apartment for two weeks until she calmed down. The night I broke up with Krissy, I was pretty ripped. I had some action lined up for later that night but I needed to get rid of Krissy first. I tried to be the good guy and let her down easy. I gave her the "you are too good for me" speech. She countered with "You want something worse than me?" I'll be damned. She had me on that one. I ended up getting rid of her, I slept with one of sorority sisters later that night, and that was when the gun came out. You would think I would have learned my lesson.
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