Esther Gets Drunk at The Office Christmas Party - Part 1

Esther started a new job after being fired from her previous 2 jobs unexpetedly in the last 3 months. Since she needed the money she had to take the next available job, which did not pay well, but she had no other choice. She figured she would work there for a couple of months but look for something better at the same time. Luckily for alcoholic Esther, after three days into working at the new job, the company was having its yearly Christmas party.

If you have been reading other articles in the blog, you know by now that Esther is an alcoholic. She likes to drink and party and it has been that way since she was 13. After all those years of drinking, you would think that she has learned to hold her liquore, but apparently not as she was fired from her job after getting too drunk (white-girl-wasted) at her office Christmas party. This is what she told me...

Esther said that she did not plan for things to go so badly since she only new about 5 people out of thr 800 employees who would be at the party. Because of this, she thought that she had complete anonymity and that even if she did get drunk, no one would know who she was. She would stick to hanging out with her immidiate coworkers who also partied hard.

The day began at 8 a.m. when the bus was to leave from the office to the location of the all.day party. Esther expected everyone to be on time so she arrived 30 minutes late, but found that the bus had already left - not a good start! She ended up catching public transportation (3 buses) to finally arrive at the location about 2 hours away. Once she arrived, the beer drinking began at about 10:30 a.m.! It wasn{t until after lunch that the dancing and music started with waitresses serving liquor. By 6 p.m. she had already madout with a coworker and got yelled by the HR supervisor for playing around the dance floor.

By 9 p.m. everything had gone well, but she was very drunk. That is when the shit hit the fan in a series of unlucky events. Unfortunately, when Esther gets drunk, she gets aggressive and likes to fight. Apparently she got in a fight with an unknown random coworker because she was told that she could not sit at the same table with a group on unknown coworkers. Basically, she felt insulted that the lady at the table did not allow her to with them, so she went off on her with a verbal attack. ¨Who the fuck do you think you are? You aain't shit¨, she said to the lady at the table. She later was to find out that the random lady was the Director of Human Resources. Uh-oh!

During that tyrade, she was promptly scolded by the party supervisor.
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Esther & The Military The Smoke Bomb

This is kinda what Monica looked line back then.

Esther and I had a crazy friend who was a teenaged punk in 1999. Her name was Monica, she dyed her hair bright red, but was still beautiful with long black hair, fair skin, and big lips (think Angelina Jolie in the 90s). Monica was a rebel, and even though Esther was too, at least Monica was a rebel that was out of the closet. She was proud of it and maybe that is what attracted her to Esther. Monica was also her stealing buddy who she would steal underwear with from department stores.

Monica and Esther would hang out around Emory University because that is where Monica lived with her mother and brother. Her brother wasr also was a militant punk who wore combat boots and military clothes in highschool. His skinned head did not take away from his good looks either!

One day when Esther and Monica were hanging out at Monica´s house, they decided to drop acid together. This was the first time that Esther took acid so she did not know what to expect, but Monica had done it before so she felt more comfortable. Esther told me that she did not feel anything at first. They were watching a movie and eventually things started to seem funnier. After a while of giggling for no reason, things got interesting.

Monica´s brother noticed that there was an Emory frat party down the street. Of course, Monica and her brother hate frat parties and the people who attand them because they are punks. They complained about the noise and their ¨stupid neighbors¨ for a while until Monica´s brother realized he had a solution to the problem - a smoke bomb! It was a military strength smoke bomb and they wanted to break up the party with it.

Ok, this is not an actual picture of them throwing the bomb, but you get the idea.

Because of the acid, their need for adventure was high. Monica came up with the idea of throwing the smoke bomb at the party house. OK! Esther and Monica covered themselves with black hoodies and headed down the street with the smoke bomb. They ran and hid behind trees like ninjas until they arrived close to the house. After counting down 1-2-3, Esther pulled the needlie while Monica threw the smoke bomb towards the house. After a couple of seconds the smoke began to build...then they turned around and ran back to the house. Minutes later they realized how strong the military smoke bomb really was!

After peeping out the window, you could see that the whole street was full of smoke. Also, Esther said you could hear the people at the party start to scream and run out of the house - they thought that thw house was on fire! Esther and Monica could not stop laughing. Moments later a fire truck and police arrived. Because they were still tripping on acid, the flashing red lights only made the experience even better.

In the end, the house was not on fire, but the party was over and there was a big mystery left in the neighborhood. Where did the smoke bomb come from and who threw it? Terrorist? The mystery has not been solved to this day, but they could have gotten in a lot of trouble!

Esther Likes To Steal

Esther make look innocent, but she is a thief!

Esther began stealing with another friend that we had. They specialized in stealing clothes and underwear from deparment stores. They liked to steal expensive underwear by trying them on in the dressing rooms, laying on like 3 bras, then walking out. Pretty easy actually. I think her freind got caught once, but Esther never did and this may be why it lead to more stealing.

Eventually, the items that were being stolen became more expensive. To do this, she transitioned from stealing from department stores to stealing from employers. At one point she worked at a Korean cell phone store. She stole phones from there and even gave one to me as a gift, so sweet!

For some reason, I was not involved in the stealing. I usually just heard about it from Dale or her other friend about it after the fact. Dale and Esther were like partners in crime who planned stealing sprees together and then spend some of the money on me. I always wondered how they had so much money and was happy to have such generous friends, but eventually I figured it out.

I think the most extravegant plan to perpetually steal from an employeer on a steady basis was also planned with Dale. This began when Dale got us a job working in a really strange situation. There was a man that he knew through the Boy Scouts that sold rare coins from his basement. The basement was full of rare coins, bills, and $1,000 bags of quarters. Our job was to take the coins in the bag and roll them into $10 rolls of quarters. It was a job that we did after school. Eveyday, the 3 of us would go to the basement and start washing and rolling coins for hours. It was almost like slave labor in an old dingy basement with a fat old white man watching us and not doing much else. After a while, the old white man became more trusting and left us alone with his stash of money. The basement was very interesting as it had Nazi coins, double-sided coins, old dollar bills, gold coins, and other rare items.

This is what tha bags of quaters looked like.

The point of the story is that we started stealing on a regular bases. It started off with stuffing the $10 rolls in our shoes or clothes. However, Dale and Esther planned a scheme that was even more of a cash cow. After Dale and Esther began living an extravegant life of highschool students, they finally told me that they had been stealing even more than I had imagined.

There plan was that they brought luch to work in a large cooler. They would fit one of the $1,000 bags in the cooler and walk out at the end of the day. The money bags were heavy and piled under our desk - probably about 20 bags at a time. The owner was so unorganized that there was no inventory system so he never noticed. I am not sure how many bags they stole, but they never got caught and it was actually very easy, especially because they seemed so innocent.

1 Latina & 2 Asians

Why would a little Colombian girl end up best friends with a Korean girl and Chinese guy? Atlanta is a very multicultural city and even though there were other Latinos, I never really had one as a close friend.

I believe Esther was attracted to my friendship because she did not fit the typical Asian stereotypes. Yes, she was smart and a good student, but she also had a edgy and rebellious side. This darker side of her was not apparent to most people and she would hide it from family, teachers, and other friends. However, when I was around her, she felt comfortable in being herself and I insisted on bringing out that side out even more. I did this by not being judgemental, having fun, and encouraging bad behavior.

Esther and I on a typical weekend.

This came naturally to be because as Latino stereotypes go, I was outgoing, a partyer, rebellious, and fun. This may have been attrative to Esther because all of her other friends were typical A-type Korean Christian girls. I felt like she could not relate to them in the same way because they would judge or criticize her. To say the least, I did not get a long with her other friends very much.

Dale was also like this and this made us into great best friends. While Esther would tell her parents she was going to a math tournament over the weekend, we would be at raves doing drugs. We would sneak out, run over trash cans with Dale´s car, skip school, and steal items. Basically, these contraversial actions is what bonded us together, whether or not her other friends knew about it or not.

Esther Is A Christian

The Christian religion is very strong in the Korean community. This is especially true since we grew up in Atlanta, which is located in the bible belt.

When we were younger religion was not really an issue between us. I mean what 13 year old is considering the seriousness of their faith? However, as we grew older this definately became an issue. She became increasingly more religious as I became more athiest.

One of the reason´s why her religion is so strong is because her father is a pastor. He has a church and preaches to the Korean community. Her family in general is strict for this reason. Obviously, no drinking or smoking alllowed - things that eventually would become my specialties.

This is what Esther wanted people to think of her as.

The issues with religion between us began to show in high school. This is were we began to experiment with drugs and alcohol. We would go to parties and underground raves with Dale to listend to house music which was super popular at the time.  To be honest, we deffinately had fun as Esther always had a wild streak in her. Sometimes it would come out during these parties, but then it would go away once we were back in school during the week. This is when I began to notice the split personalities that Esther would manage. These split and opposite personalities were essentially the result of her pressure to be a good Christian from her family while also wanting to be a fun friend to me and Dale.

This is what she was really like.

I have to admit that if Esther was the ¨Christian One¨, then I was the ¨Evil One¨. My appetite for debouchery was growing every time we went out. I enjoyed spending that time with her, but was often surprised when she would switch back to the ¨Christina Esther¨ once the weekend was over. Not only was it a change in personalities, it also turned into judgement and resentment: I learned to view this behavior as hypocritical as she would switch between each lifestyle. For examples, one day she is at a prayer meeting then the next day stealing merchandise from stores.

This confilct in behavior is once of the main reason I lost respect for her, but instead of it being a small issue, it became a larger issue as the ¨Evil¨ behavior got worse and worse. Each time she commited a more severe discretion, the distance between her personalities grew more and more.

How It All Started

I met my Korean friend Esther in elementary school. We were in a gifted program for high achieveing students. Hence, in the 90s there were few Latinos in that school and a lot more Asians. Because I was one of the few Latinos, I immediately started making friends with the Asians. I made a Chinese friend (Dale) and my Korean friend Esther. Soon the 3 of us were a tight knit group of buddies - the three amigos!

Not only was it a little strange for a Colombian girl to befriend a Chinese and Korean, but it was also funny that I looked like Esther. For a Latina, I did not have the typical look. I was light-skinned, curly black hair, and skinny. I basically looked like Esther. But Esther looked like me becuase one year she decided to perm her hair so we both had the same hair style and looked the same from the back. In school, teachers would confuse us.

As the years went by, the three of us became closer and closer. Eventually, I started spending the night at her house and was integrated into the Asian culture even more. Whether it was hangiing out with her Korean grandmother, taking my shoes off at the door, or eating Korean food; I always learned something new at her house. Because of this, even to this day, I have a great passion and appreciatino for Asian culture. My apartment is decorated in at least 50% Oriental decor and I take off my shoes at the door of my own apartment.