Drinking Gin from a Polo Bottle

Way back in the late 80′s my friends and I attended a summer concert at Park West (Utah). It was probably some shit like Oingo Boingo or Tears for Fears (OK, give me a break it was the 80′s after all and don’t even lie, you used to like that shit too!), I really can’t remember for sure who it was. Any how, we got drunk (and probably stoned too!) at the concert. Yes we were under aged, but we had plenty of “friends” that would get us pretty much what we wanted.

NOTE: Please understand that I am a bit fuzzy on the details. That was totally a million years ago and like I said we were partying it up too. I will try to remember this as best as I can.

After the concert a bunch of us had arranged to sleepover at my friend Candace’s house. First, because she lived fairly close to the venue. Second, and most importantly, she lived with her Dad and I don’t think he was going to be home that night.

A little background on Candace *Hi Candace! * Her family moved into our neighborhood sometime right before kindergarten started for us. She lived two houses down from my family. Directly behind my house was our other best friend, Pam. The three of us were inseperable and both Pam and I fought each other to be Candace’s bestest friend. Candace moved away in 7th grade when her parents split up and she lived with her Dad in another area of Salt Lake, so she went to a different school. We tried to stay in touch through high school, but you know how that goes sometimes. We lost contact for nearly 20 years and just found each other again, unfortunately through the death of one of our friend’s and former neighbor.

Back to the story now. We get to her house, but we are out of drinks and we wanted to keep the party going. I think it was one of Candace’s friends that had jacked some gin (probably from her parents liquor cabinet). Problem was, the only thing she had to carry it in was an empty Polo cologne bottle. Either that or we put it in there to sneak it into the concert. OK, I don’t care how much you rinse out a Polo bottle, it still smells and tastes like Polo! But, being the desperate teenagers that we were, we figured what the hell!

I had never had gin up to that point (and have never since due to this experience!), figured it would be similar to Vodka or Rum (still don’t know to this day, ’cause I can’t even look at a bottle with out dry heaving!). I don’t think any of us had drunken hard alcohol straight before, so we went on the hunt for something to mix it with. All be damned if there was nothing in her house except water or milk. An experienced drinker (which obviously none of us were) would know that you can mix gin with water. Oh yes! we mixed that Polo tinged gin with MILK!!! AND DRANK IT!!! For the benefit of any tea tottlers out there…YOU DO NOT WANT TO MIX GIN THAT CAME OUT OF A POLO BOTTLE WITH MILK!

I know, I know…makes you want to hurl, right? It was hard for me to even type it with out horking all over my laptop!