Remember Project Graduation? That crap party your high school would host so kids didn't go out and drink themselves to death. Who ever put that shit together at my school ended up booking Phoenix Live, this spot in downtown Phoenix with that was a restaurant, bar and club. They set up games and raffle prizes, it was pretty stupid. I had no intention of going to this thing until everyone I knew was going and then I was screwed because I didn't want to sit at home with my fucking parents. So I decided to go.
As soon as the graduation ceremony shit ended I jetted home to meet up with my friend Tim. We figured we had a couple of hours to get some beer and drink it as fast as we could before we caught the last bus to project graduation. So we were just rushing, shit I don't even remember if we got alcohol that night, I think so. Oh well, turns out everyone else was attempting to pull the same maneuver and the last bus to this shit was packed. There were drunk girls in the parking lot mooning fools and yelling. After seeing that I thought ok maybe this won't be as lame as I thought. On the way there we're all in the back of the bus fools are smoking and shit, the chaperone was some kid's mom and I think she was pissed but no one really gave a fuck. We get to the spot and then I find some other friends of mine, turns out they snuck in some liquor. Boy was I thankful for that, I started loading up on the gin. Once I got a little inebriated everything seemed more fun.
At some point they gathered everyone into one room and announce that a hypnotist will be performing some amazing tricks. I had never been hypnotized but I've always wanted to be so when they started picking fools I began to yell, "PICK ME DAMN IT!" and I got picked. So this guy goes into his shit and starts trying to put like 10 of us under hypnosis. Now I can't really say it didn't work because I think it did, but the only reason it worked was because I wanted it to. Oh being drunk may have helped a little. It was still fucking cool though.
Part of the routine was that we thought we were Elvis Presley so we would all do the stupid Elvis dance. Oh yeah I was wearing some shitty sun glasses, they were real big and square like the kind grandma's wear. So with the glasses and the dance I looked extra stupid. The next part of the act was that the guy told us that we were all 3rd graders and we would act like little kids. He says this and some kids start fidgeting, another guy picks his nose. What did I do? As soon as the hypnotist turned his back to us I swing around and punched the guy next to me straight in his chest, knocking him out of his chair. The hypnotist spins around like what the fuck did you do, and I just point to another kid and say, "it was him." People laughed so the guy figured it was ok to go on with the act.
The last part of the act was this chain reaction thing where he would say one thing and then one person would do something and which would make the person next to them do something and so on. I was the last person and my part in the whole thing was that I would shout, "I have to pee." So the guy sets it off and it goes as planned, he does it a second time and once I again I yell, "I have to pee." What no one knew was that I really had to pee, all the alcohol I had slammed down was trying to come out. The third time he did it I just couldn't take it anymore and when it was my turn I yelled, "I HAVE TO FUCKING PISS!!" and then I ran to the bathroom.
Being hypnotized was the highlight of project graduation, other than that it was pretty weaksauce. We continued drinking until we ran out liquor, and then we just hung out until the bus came to take us back home at 6am.