If you know me, you know I’ve spent most of my sleepless nights watching "Shrek" on loop.
And yet, out of the hundreds of times I’ve watched the saga, it wasn’t until my freshman year of college that I realized that Shrek just gets it. He knows what it’s like to have to bring that annoying friend out with you even though you know you’re just going to have to babysit them. He knows how it feels when you meet your new boo’s family and they look straight past your act and see your dark and dirty habits. And he definitely knows how it feels to see your crush go from a 10 by day to a wild ogre by night after the sun goes down (and the bar lights come on).
1. When you and bae are getting ready for your night out, full of trust and optimism.
2. When you pull out every trick in the book to get banded.
When you order a Y-Bomb and you get up-charged as if you are a clueless freshman who doesn’t have appropriate prices memorized.
When you finally find a comfortable spot in Derd and then realize you have a new problem amongst you.
When you see your best friend arrive from across the bar, knowing she has an exam tomorrow morning, and you internally feel her GPA wither away.
When you find the bouncer you befriended last semester and see free VIP in your near future.
When you take a tequila shot before you realize there are no limes to save you, or your crippling ego.
Ten minutes after said shot...
When you get separated from your group and simultaneously a drink gets poured down your back.
When you’ve been out for over an hour and no one has offered to buy you a drink.
When you embark on the great journey that is your walk home.
When you make it home to your roommates where they try shoving bread and water down your throat in hopes of a better tomorrow.
Regardless of the hangover, when you're the first in line to get pre-banded the next night to do it all over again.
