abaya

KM, thanks for your comment, but I did want to say that smooth said I was "both" surprised and comforted (separately, I assume) by some posts on this thread. He is probably also referring to what I posted in my journal, about how parts of the thread had been very helpful in me dealing with what happened that night. To be sure, the "surprising" parts were not terribly comforting, but the assurance (mostly from ratbastid) that I was responding with the correct amount of responsibility was of great comfort to me, since it confirmed something I have tried to believe (but have not always been convinced of) for a long time.

EDIT (after smooth's post): Thanks for the clarification on the journals; I spoke of my "comfort" there, so that was why I thought it might have come from there.

Well, I would be interested to hear what other posters have to say on this, for the sake of discussion. But, since you're asking me, I'll answer that in my opinion, I think he ought to have recognized at least somewhat how very drunk I was (via the initial stages... vomiting/stumbling), and if he was so kind as to pick me up off the street... to also have been so kind as to figure out where I was staying (or even taken me to the police station, if nowhere else) and put me in a taxi going back there. To me, that is what a considerate person would do, even if he was also intoxicated (especially if he was conscious enough to find another bar for us to "have more drinks," after I was found at floor level). That is what makes him an asshole, I suppose. Or maybe just human, who knows.

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