DUI: Dialing Under the Influence

I was out at the clubs with some friends on Saturday night. This entails meeting people and dancing, all of which is regularly facilitated by alcohol. Somewhere between 10:30PM and 2AM I probably consumed 4 or 5 drinks (vodka-red bull, vanilla stoli and coke, and the ever-popular "whatever you're having").

The Drink and Dial: Is this ever a good idea?

I submit to you that, like most things in life, it depends on the context. If you're having a blast and you miss a friend who isn't there because of, say, a geographical impossibility, a quick shout-out voicemail can be fun. Kind of a "hey, we're having a blast, you should be here, man, peace, brother (nondescript yelling)" message MAY be acceptable. It may be, in the parlance of the evening, "completely awesome." Let's look at the deciding factors:

1. Are you coherent or will you babble? (Coherent: good. Babble: probably not good).
2. Did you leave a voicemail or did you actually wake the person up, locking yourself into an awkward 1 minute conversation where the person you called has to yell to be heard over the G-Unit throbbing in the background, which, for some reason, you really want to get your swerve on to at this point in time? (Voicemail: good. Other: varying degrees of bad).
3. You did call a friend, right? You're not calling an ex with no other agenda than somehow expressing painful emotions, right? RIGHT? (Friend: probably good. New girlfriend: possibly good. Ex-girlfriend: I have never even heard of an instance where this turned out well.)

As for the phone call I placed last night, it was all good fun. Today my friend and I concluded that I shall be known for a period of time as "Drunk Dialey, the little known 8th Dwarf."