Stunned Sober
Emily was stunned. How was he doing this so easily, so casually? She decided to slow down, just in case he couldn't control himself. Her intuition was correct, as he quickly drank an additional two mai-tais, totaling three. "I was tipsy borderline drunk off of one," Emily later said. Even the bar had a two-drink limit on the mai-tai, but he charmed his way into a third. That was a big mistake...
Too Drunk to Function
He was having fun...too much fun. Eric got drunker and drunker until his words were slurred, his eyes were closing, and Emily had lost all interest she had had in him before. The slobbering mess of a man started to get louder and louder until he was practically yelling in the bar. Emily would later say she wished he had just been loud, but then came his declaration of love...