Confessions of a Christmas party...
The annual office shindig can be a tame affair compared to the festive frolics of a course party. Condor Properties unearths some Christmas calamities.
‘Tis the season for the course Christmas ball; an opportunity for students and lecturers to unite in boozy merriment for the last night out of the term. In other words, a recipe for drunken disaster.
Condor Properties spoke to some former students, whose antics at such shindigs still haunt them today. One of them was James Andrews, who tried to pull his own lecturer.
“I’m still getting the p*** ripped out of me for this,” says the former Bristol student. “We had this lecturer, who was pretty hot and not much older than us. All the lads thought she was a bit cheeky and reckoned they could pull her.”
Chris thought he had a golden opportunity to earn these bragging rights when he saw her waiting for a taxi after their Christmas ball. “The night had been a bit of letdown, so I bailed early and saw her waiting for a taxi outside,” he says. “She didn’t live far from me so we agreed to share her taxi. I was pretty drunk and when we pulled up at her house I leant over to try and kiss her; she got out and I just fell into the warm, empty seat next to me. The driver laughed so much he was in tears.
“The next day I told my mates, who reacted like taxi driver. I was so embarrassed coming back in the New Year, that first lecture was awkward.”
Coming back after Christmas was even worse for Scott Harrison, who accidentally punched his course leader during the Christmas ball. “There was a covers band on and they started playing Slade’s Merry Christmas, which is my favourite Christmas song,” says the former Liverpool student. “Me and the lads went nuts. We were jumping around like idiots, during which I accidentally punched my lecturer in the face.
“I was really apologetic, but he was clearly hacked off. I didn’t think about it until the next day, but I’d just submitted some coursework that he was marking – I still think that’s why I only got a 2:2 for it.”
Andrew Williams’, Christmas party ended in embarrassment when his entire course saw him naked.
“I went outside for a fag with my mates. It had been snowing and they said they’d buy my drinks all night if I rolled around in the snow,” he told Condor Properties. “So I stripped out of my suit, got completely starkers and did it. But my so-called mates ran off with my clothes and as I was chasing them outside my course mates were all laughing at the window – I was mortified.”
It wasn’t all bad though.
“I did get free drinks for the rest of the night,” he says.
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