EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT
When it comes to sorting out new years plans, if you don’t have a house party to go to, you may as well have a quiet one at home or acknowledge that your night will likely cost more than $200 dollars – or spend a lot of time lining up somewhere.
For local bloke Luke Prescott, he’d chosen to fork out an eye-watering $250 to a Great Gatsby themed New Years event at ‘The Gilded Frog’ and is said to have kept in theme a little too much, resulting in one hell of a hangover the following day – made worse by the lack of water within reach and glaring light bursting through the cracks of his blinds.
Squinting his eyes as searing pain radiates through his skull, a dusty Luke browses the Voly app for an emergency grocery run, needing something in his body ASAP.
Dire circumstances call for quick decisions.
In his current state, Luke couldn’t think of anything worse than leaving the safety of his home, especially as he could feel the all familiar hangxiety creeping in.
And at this point, he wasn’t sure if that was a result of simply drinking too much or from doing something stupid.
The latter, being the reason why he won’t open up any messages until he was mentally ready to hear about last night’s events.
Thanking the heavens for modern technology, Luke clicks on the Hangover category in his app and hotwires a blue Gatorade and panadol with a note to have it delivered straight to his couch, and if possible, could the Voly delivery guy do him a solid and wind down the blinds too.
Imagining that this would have been exactly what Jay Gatsby would have done had he lived in modern times, Luke admits that this was no doubt the peak of sensual self-indulgence and likely a precursor for what the rest of his year would look like.
“Maybe I should chuck a hair of the dog on top of the order,” he sighed, before being overcome by a wave of nausea.
More to come.
