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Peer Pressure seems to be getting worse the more you get older. A few nights ago I had some of my friends start to push me into to doing something that I didn't want to do, and thank god I wasn't drunk then because I may have done it. I was at a party with my friends at a pool hall on the weekend, and as the women started to pour into the pool hall, my friends started to do a lot of peer pressure things to me. Such as telling me I should go hit on a girl (with her boyfriend beside her), or I should grab the ass of another, and some other stuff in that same area. If I were drinking that night I probably would have done anything they had said.
The peer pressure that a person in school will face is the bare minimum that a person will face when school is no longer a concern. Especially when a person goes to a party with a bunch of friends in an area that no one knows you. Nine times out of ten your friends will use the phrase of "don't worry about which girls you go after because what are the chances, after tonight, that you will be seeing them again" (or something in that territory). I can honestly say that if one more person says that to me I will beat the living shit out of them, I came really close to doing that, as it was this weekend. I am not a violent person however I will stand up for what I believe in, and if violence is necessary so be it.
The peer pressure has been around for the last couple of months because at the up-coming wedding I have to dance with one specific girl (and I have been told that if I make any more of a stink over it, I will be forced to do more than one). I find that this specific girl is beneath me, that I wouldn't give her the time of day (as I have been told the feeling is mutual). Anyone that knows this type of situation knows exactly what I mean. Well every single one of my friends has been having one hell of a time with bothering me over this one. They have been saying that after the wedding, that I was going to be ending up with her and shit like that. Well near the night's end I started to give up on comebacks to them and started to act like I didn't care any more. This specific girl was also at the bar that night too (loaded beyond loaded) so when I started to give up on fighting my friends off with the verbal language (or ignoring them) it got worse because she started to hang out with us. And since my friends had worn me down I was saying stuff that I really wish that I was drunk for saying.
Well what makes things worse that night is that this girl said something about me not having a choice where I was going to be on the wedding night and some other things that I choose not to put on this. Also I was in the car that took her home that night and she said some other things like the only way that I had a chance with her is when she was drunk (and I said the same type of thing to her about me). Of course the friends that were in the car at the time had a field day with me because of those statements. Around 5 minutes away from where we dropped the girls off at we actually joked about moving the tents around so that no one knew where they were going (a little bit of laughter for us as the girls were drunk). Of who was left in the car another and me were the only ones who didn't drink, and we were still considering moving the tents on them just for something extra to do before we had to go to sleep. We didn't do it because we thought it through and realized that it wasn't going to be a good thing later on in the morning when we would hear about it later (and us not able to not stop laughing about it), so we decided that we would leave them alone. Although it would be as funny as hell to us, but they would have killed us when they sobered up.
The peer pressure that I received in this day was more than a normal person would have done to them on any other day. I expect this type of treatment from my friends more and more as they get married and I stay single. If I had been drinking that night we probably would have more the tents around, and my friends would have stuck me into one of them. I can also say that if I was drinking that night, I would have most likely been in at least 3-4 fights that night because my friends would have had me hit on girls (with the boyfriends within arm-reach). There was one fight near the start of the night and it was basically a "pissing contest" (2 guys testing to see who would throw the first punch and who would back off first). As I was told by my friends that if a guy in there would have challenged me to a fight they would "back me up", however I don't know how good they would be where almost all of them were drinking.
I am just thankful that I survived that night, and I am hoping that I can survive the up-coming wedding by leaving that day/night the same, as I was the day/night before.
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