Lost weekends

[Dopamine1979]

You'd go from a club to a pub?

[*Bob*]

Why not?

Some of them in Brix and Vaux used to open early 'for tea, coffee and soft drinks' to plug the gap - if there were a couple of hours to kill before they were permitted to start selling booze.

[Otta]

*bob* I think for me personally it was a combo of being over generous, and drinking faster than whoever was due to get the next round in.

But I very clearly remember that I found ?100 was never enough and always needed an extra ?20 or so. This would be a standard CPT til 10ish, down to The Vale (only option at that point if you wanted to stay local) til 2, then kebab shop / offy on the way back to the CPT (upstairs). Beers shots and shorts, no cocktails and actually no gear in those days, it was all very boozey.

A "proper night out with clubs and taxis would be a lot more.

But this was at a time when I was first working in a reasonably well paid job and had nothing else to spend my money on (and no sense to save it). I'll never have that sort of disposable income again even though I earn more now.

[Dopamine1979]

Fair enough.

[StraferJack]

I'm beginning to understand why locals can't afford to buy in the area a bit more now

[Otta]

We (not all local) were undoubtedly quite a boozey bunch back then. Good times, but yeah, LOTS of money lierally down the pisser.

[Jah Lush]

I've been pissing it up the wall since I was a teenager. I'll never be rich. Over generous and probably over served.