A Party Goer Turned Athlete

Standing at the starting line, I was having a few laughs with another participant when I caught a wiff of a strong smell behind me. I turned to see some of our removalists chatting with a very jovial and loud young man, almost a little too jovial for someone that was about to walk to Glenelg. His hands were in the air and he was bopping to the music, yelling and carrying on.

He was singing very loud too, he didn’t know the words to the songs but his murmurs kind of were in time with the pianist, not that he cared. This guy was absolutely blind drunk. When Ben asked him what he was up to, he said he’d been out all night on the town and when he tried to get into the casino at 7 am, they didn’t let him in for being too drunk. Being hopped up on beer and spirits and being in high spirits he decided to press on instead of calling it quits. He started walking up North Terrace towards North Adelaide only to notice 30 000 people lined up next to Parliament House.

After some investigation he worked out what was going on and decided that a 12km Fun Run with plenty of fit ladies was just what the doctor had ordered. After spending some time rocking with the some furniture removalists, his attention quickly faded from the music to a couple of young ladies in front of us, he stumbled off into the crowd a short time later. I expected to see him passed out on the side of Anzac Highway later but didn’t, maybe he stopped at the Highway Inn for a top up!