The UK is now leading the world in women’s binge drinking after many years of training. One woman has admitted that she just isn’t helping and might cause the UK to losing it’s leading position. Carrie Oakey admits she has let her friends and country down.
For a night out to qualify as binge drinking there needs to be at least six alcoholic drinks (big girl drinks, shandy doesn’t count) drunk in an evening. This is set by the officials at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Drinking (OECD) who compile the league table.
Carrie Oakey (27) was on a night out with her friends at the weekend in Bolton. They had been out drinking every weekend since January. Carrie has confessed that around April she started surreptitiously tipping some of her drink into empty glasses lying around or into plant pots.
“I just couldn’t keep up with the pace of drinking, and hangovers! I thought hangovers only happened to really old people like 40 or something”.
At the weekend she decided that she actually fancied a glass of orange juice. She got them to throw lots of ice, slices and drop a cherry in so she could pass it off as a cocktail. In the dim lighting she got away with it for a while. It was only when one of her friends grabbed her glass because she wanted to see what the cocktail was like that she was rumbled.
“It was so embarrassing. My friend took a gulp and her face did this weird contortion thing, her eyes went really wide and then she spat it out. She couldn’t help but yell out that it wasn’t booze. The music suddenly stopped, everyone in the room turned to look at me horrified. Then a large bucket of Newcastle Brown that was poised on the rafters above me slowly tipped and emptied all over me. Okay the last bit didn’t happen, but it was obvious that everyone thought I’d let the country down”.
Women, if you are binge drinking you might want to see some advice.
Photo by Helena Lopes