The Hangover

So I assume most people have seen the movie The Hangover.  Well I have a real life version of this movie that happened this weekend.  My best friend lives about two hours away from me.  We talk every day and try to see each other as often as our hectic lives allow us.  This weekend we discussed getting together but with Christmas shopping and a few other things, it wasn't looking very likely.  Anyways, yesterday morning I woke up around 8.  I was in my bathroom washing my face when I heard a bang on my bedroom door and in walks my best friend to my complete surprise!  She sits down on my bed and just starts shaking her head.  I am super confused and keep saying "what in the world is going on?  What are you doing here?"  Then she says "Hey M, she's dressed you can come in."  I'm like wait, what?  In walks her friend M and just flops on my bed and says "It's sooo bad!"  After both of them spewing out random moments from the night, and me still completely confused I told them to slow down and tell me what happened from the start.  After hearing the story I couldn't help but laugh hysterically, because it is totally a real life version of the movie!  Like, how in the world do these things happen.  It was so ridiculous I couldn't help but share this with you all (I will do my best to retell the story, apologies of some details are a bit off).

So it all began the night before when my friend, her boyfriend, her friend M and his wife went out.  Before going out they had some drinks at their hotel.  However, the drinks were made extremely strong and they were already drunk by the time they got to the club.  While at the club, my friend and her boyfriend got into an arguement and ultimately they all ended up taking separate cabs back to the hotel.  In my friend's process of getting to a cab, three men approached her tring to be inappropriate.  She somehow managed to get away and get a cab back to the hotel.  Once she got back, a few arguements ensued and the bathroom ended up being a bit destroyed in the process.

Prior to the bathroom destruction (I think) M and his wife had gotten in an arguement in the parking lot of the hotel.  The cops came, and decided to handcuff M.  In the process, M's head somehow was thrown/fell through a glass window at the main office of the hotel.  He was then taken to the hospital by the cops.  Apparently, at the hospital they had him talking to a therapist.  He had shown them his military ID, so they made an assumption that he had PTSD and was suicidal (not the case at all!)  At one point he called himself a cab and attempted to leave the hospital.  He was dragged out the cab and back into the hospital.  At this point he called his wife and my friend to tell them where he was and to come get him.  So my friend, her boyfriend, and M's wife headed to the hospital.  During the car ride, my friend and her boyfriend began to argue again.  The boyfriend ended up opening the door and getting out the car, my friend said to leave him.  So boyfriend is now MIA, my friend and M's wife go to the hospital to get M.  At this point they had not released him andwere still trying to keep him.  At one point the therapist walked away and they made a run for it.  Literally all three of them ran out of the hospital, security guard in tow. 

They made it away, and now were trying to head back to the hotel.  While driving on the highway in M's rental car (he had a rental because they had gotten in a car accident a few days prior), suddenly the front left tire popped and pulled the car into the wall on the highway!!!  So there they were on the highway with two firetrucks, two cop cars, and a civilian while M changed the tire and put the spare on.  Once he finished and set the car back down, the back left tire popped!  At this point the cop said they might as well tow the car.  Rental car gets towed, my friend, M and his wife get a ride back to the hotel in the back of a cop car.  The boyfriend is still MIA at this point, and everyone is now missing their cell phones.  They leave M's wife at hotel to sleep, my friend and M get into my friend's car (they drove there separate) and begin driving around to try and find the boyfriend.  No such luck.  So they return to the hotel (it's around 5:30am now) and go to sleep for a little bit.  My friend wakes up in the morning, still no cell phones, and says "Angela will know what to do.  Lets go to her house!"  This leads us to my 8am surprise visit!

So just like in the movie, they emptied their pockets and the only thing they have is this...

Card to the towing company.  So we look online and it says they are closed on the weekends! Uhmmm BIG problem, but we decide to head over there anyways just in case!  Good thing cause they were open.  So we ask to look in the car for the three missing cell phones.  They take us back to the car and I just had to laugh.  I mean who has such luck that the tire pops and slams drags them along a cement wall while driving on the highway!  You can't really see it well in the photos but the entire side of the car is scraped and the donut is on the front left tire.

Showing off the damage...

And the back tire that popped after being dragged against the wall...

So we searched the car, found M and his wife's cell phones.  We didn't see my friend's.  So she asked me to call her phone to see if we could hear it ring.  As we are standing there hearing nothing, suddenly a man answers!  I'm like "Who is this!?!"  He says "The man with the phone."  Annoyed I reply "No crap!  Who are you and where are you?!"  His response "I'm Jason at the Penthouse."  My thought...ohhh god.  I inform him we will be there to get the phone and hang up.  My friend is just staring at me and asks where her phone is.  after just staring at her for a minute I inform her it somehow ended up at a strip club!  She of course is furious, as I wpould be too. 

So we head back to the hotel to get M's wife, whom they had left there sleeping.  We get there and she is talking to the hotel manager about the damage to the room.  And I got to see it for myself.

Exhibit A, the broken toilet...

Exhibit B, the door...

I literally feel like I am in the middle of the movie right now!  So after checking out and that whole ordeal (which by the way I was laughing at the site of the window the M's head went through boarded up as well, didn't get a photo of that though), we headed to get my friend's phone.  We pull up and are completely grossed out.  I personally have never been to one pof these places, and never thought I would be going to one at 11am to retrieve my friend's cell phone.  Luckily though, since they had just opened we did not have to see "anything" and simply stood at the front counter while they got the phone.  At this point the boyfriend is still MIA (he was ok, and found a way back to the Springs by that afternoon), but at least all phones had been found and we decided a late breakfast/early lunch was much needed.  It definitely made for an interesting Saturday morning, and goes to show that The Hangover can happen in real life.  And luckily I was only apart of the morning after mystery solving, not the actual night lol :)