Drunk Girl likes her wine over ice in a coffee mug. It was a rainbow-striped coffee mug with tennis rackets along the top edge. She hadn’t yet turned 21 and felt that the coffee mug was the least obvious of drink containers.  The Red Solo cup screamed alcohol but not a coffee mug, a coffee mug was too innocent.

If the cops broke up the party, and they always do, she would set her coffee mug down where ever she was. Eventually the Party Throwers would clean their house and eventually they would also clean her mug. Drunk Girl has been known to show up at their house with a smile and sweetly ask for her mug back from last weekends’ party. The Party Throwers always kindly obliged.

One time, the Party Throwers weren’t home and she needed her mug. She let herself in and opened the kitchen cabinet to where her mug sat at perfect eye level. She found a syllabus and flipped it over to leave a note: “You were robbed. The only thing stolen was a rainbow coffee mug with tennis rackets. Luckily, the coffee mug wasn’t even yours to begin with. Thank you and have a nice day.”

The note hangs on the fridge unnoticed for three weeks until they throw another party and Drunk Girl points it out. They all laugh, and she pretends she doesn’t know who wrote it and she giggles as she drinks wine out of a rainbow coffee mug with tennis rackets.