I was once invited to a bachelor’s party with a group from an ambulance service I was working at. They decided to go strip joint hopping. At one venue the girl comes on the stage and the groom to be was shocked, it’s his old next door neighbor who’d he’d had a crush on as a teenager. Well I guess he didn’t have to imagine her naked anymore.

This party was also pre dating the concept of designated drivers. So our approach was to put all the drunks in the first car and follow it with the sober ones. We figured we were paramedics/EMT’s and if they crashed we could care for them. I suppose we could have just have borrowed an ambulance for the sober party goers to drive in, or if you think about it provide a sober driver for the drunks, we never thought of that.

One fund raiser this service often did was to sit at the front door and ask for a cover charge to enter the bar, it was a great money maker. How the times have changed.