"There are the drunk Waffle Houses, the late-night Waffle Houses, Waffle House as a house of freaks, but there's also this kind of nurturing, idealistic vision of Waffle House," said John T. Edge, the University of Mississippi scholar of Southern cuisine and culture, who proudly rattled off how his regular order involves three eggs, scrambled with cheese, and grits.
They got drunk on house white wine then made the kitchen staff dance with them while they loudly played 'Wannabe' repeatedly on a ghetto-blaster they had brought with them.
The men have gathered in a hotel smoking room to talk through three mysterious events that occurred on a single date – the disappearance of the town's richest, most desirable man, Emery Staines; the discovery of Anna Wetherell, the town prostitute, unconscious, apparently after an attempted suicide; and the death of Crosbie Wells, a local drunk, whose house harboured an unexpected stash of gold.
Someone coming in from out of town – usually remote communities – could stay for only two weeks, and if they misbehaved or were violent or drunk the housing association could evict them, with police assistance.
Krabbe was very good to let Buch into his house drunk, late at night.
When I was drunk at a house party when I was 17. Have you ever said 'I love you' and not meant it?
The allegations against Kavanaugh — that, at 17, he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old Ford while drunk at a house party — may never be resolved to anyone's satisfaction.
The fact that Vitya knew Andrey well, felt protective toward him as a younger colleague, always lost to him at cards, and had got drunk at his house more than once only added to the thrill.
Its richness blooms quietly, as when Frances, about to have sex with Nick for the first time, says, with moving clarity, that her insides feel "hot like oil," or when she recalls a terrifying episode during her childhood when her alcoholic father, stumbling into the house drunk, tripped over one of her shoes and threw it into the fire: "I watched it smouldering like it was my own face smouldering.
A subsequent post elaborated, "When she was asleep I got wickedly drunk, set our house on fire, went to bed, listened to her scream twice, climbed out the window and set about putting on a show of shock, surprise and grief to remove culpability from myself".
