What are the two most widely present characteristics of any bar? Darkness and beer, right? So it only makes sense to have parties when the power is out on (and off) campus.
Nothing much happens in Ohio so when something interesting does happen we tend to blow it way out of proportion. For example a really bad windstorm came through and we called it a hurricane.
Once the power was out it was only logical for my roommate and I to join our beers with our neighbor’s beer and celebrate this force of nature.
We had only met him once before. We had run out of sugar while baking cookies (this was in no way a common occurrence by the way) and what are neighbors for if not to let you leech off their baking materials? He opened the door sans shirt. Both his nipples were pierced.
But there we all sat, brought together by boredom and the realization that our own beer would not last us the night. Plus, he had tons of candles.
The candles, side note, could either mean
- Creeper
- He doesn’t bat for our team
The later it gets the more people cram into his apartment. Someone tries to make Jell-O shots before realizing that no power means no freezer. My roommate and I learned a lot that night. We learned that the nerdier the major, the more they can drink along with several other things that we wish we hadn’t learned. At the end of the night we inherited a book, The Guide to Getting it On.
We went back to our apartment and read the book by candlelight just like our forefathers. Ok, mainly we giggled at the pictures. By candlelight.
The next day there was no class since the campus had no power. The dean announced that there would be class, power or not, the following day. That night there was the most yuppie “riot” in all the history of riots. Miami is not known for its tough troublemaker students. Students at Miami wear pastel polo’s and designer sunglasses. The riot was more or less a ton of students standing on the lawn of the dean’s house complaining that they had class in the morning. The saddest part of this is that the city called in all of the neighboring cities police officers to “subdue” this “riot.”
The lessons learned in this are that you shouldn’t judge your neighbor by his piercing, if you’re going to riot go big or go home, and that nature likes it when you party.
