I’m legal mofo!
As I write this post, I have been officially 18 years of age for the past eleven minutes. How wonderful.
Finally, I can attend clubs and pubs without having to borrow an ID off someone that looks like me. Finally I can go buy beer without having to worry about getting asked for ID and having to shamefully admit that I don’t have it, and then face the horrible walk of shame. My mate Warren always had the hilarious idea of heading into an off-licence on the day of your 18th birthday, wearing only a nappie (diaper), baseball cap, and holding a giant lollipop. And you can proudly produce that identification card that proves you can purchase alcohol despite you wearing the attire of a two year old.
Unfortunately, I’ll never again get to experience the thrill of getting served alcohol or getting into an over-18s club when technically you’re not supposed to. Perhaps that was even the best part?
Posts like this really show my Irish-ness don’t they?
For my birthday I’m getting mostly money, because quite simply, I need it! I’ve had to buy a new laptop though, as over the weekend I broke my old one. I’ll post about this in detail soon, I hope!
The laptop partly explains the lack of posting on here lately, but mainly it’s due to exams. I have Leaving Cert oral exams coming up on the 7th (French) and the 14th (Irish). Two orals exams in such close proximity is quite unfair in my opinion, as it’s so easy to mix up both languages. Today I had a practice French oral, which went quite swimmingly! My teacher was hard enough on me too, allowing me very little chance to talk about the basics or stuff I had learned off, but instead challenged me by asking about the economy and stuff like that. She was very pleased overall, so perhaps sacrificing my blogging time has paid off a little!
Because of the afore-mentioned exams, I wont be doing anything for my birthday. I’m not happy about this, but when it’s sacrificing two weekends for the sake of my Leaving Cert oral exams, I think it’s a wise decision. A nerdy decision, but a wise one.
June 16th is the day I finish my Leaving Cert folks, and I promise you walsho.net will be back with regular posting from then on!
In the meantime, feel free to get me to buy your under-age friends, relatives, or general acquaintances alcohol or cigarettes. Why? Because I can. And it makes me feel like a big man.
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April 1st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Happy Birthday Mark! Have a gooden!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 am
Happy Birthday Mark!
Sorry to hear about your laptop but good luck on your orals!
<3
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 am
happy birthday bud. Don’t stay too sober!!
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
I remember my leaving cert …
*thinks back 12 years*
Some people actually were sitting in Irish classes while waiting to be called for their french oral. Most people were being asked questions in Irish and responding in French - daft!
I was actually the first person to take the french oral in my school so the examiner went really easy on me, also first for Irish and second for German.
Relaxed examiners that haven’t gotten bored of the easy stuff ftw
Happy Birthday, in a few years you’ll start to get annoyed by all those pesky underaged kids drinking in your local
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
Happy Birthday Mate! must be an awesome feeling to be 18 and legally able to buy alcohol! I actually cannot wait until that day!
although there is a certain thrilll to drinking illegally….