Summer break is on its way and it’s time for the partying to come into play.

But, of all the things there are to do with time to spare, there are bound to be a few bad summertime instances.

Public relations junior Derek Chan remembered when he had tickets to the Kings’ Western Conference Finals last year. Beer, tailgating and basketball… what better way to start off the summer season?

That is, until one of his buddies tailgated too hard, and drove dangerously close to regurgitation.

“He drank too much Remy in the parking lot. During the national anthem, he threw up in one of those shot paper cups. That overflowed and he ended up throwing up all over the aisle. The usher had to clean it up.”

Post spew, Chan said his friend got up to sleep in his car and missed the entire game. And that was a $175 seat, nine rows behind the King’s bench. Talk about a bad way to begin the summer.

In addition, Chan recalled another incident when he wasn’t working, but still went out to the bars. Chan said it was not unusual for him to withdraw cash from the ATM, thinking, “I won’t miss $20.”

“I went out with friends and charged all of my bar tabs. I drained my bank account that summer. It sucks not having money.”

Chan is not alone in this jobless experience. Sacramento State alumni Cristy Gabriel remembered “pinching” funds to the point where she was barely able to make payments on bills.

On a slight upside, Gabriel said she scrounged funds to get by on partying, especially when “once a week turned into twice a week, and that eventually turned into three times a week.”

However, not everyone has experienced gallivanting dilemmas. There are some that are bound to school, some that thirst for knowledge – that is, some that are stuck in summer school.

Another Sac State alumnus Warren Williamson remembered when he took Spanish 7 (Spanish Reading Proficiency) last summer at 8 a.m., three days a week. Ouch.

“The hardest part about it was actually getting out of bed,” said Williamson.

If you’re not getting paid to get up that early on a “break,” then motivation can be scarce. Especially when it’s the contrary – money is coming out of your pocket to be up by 8 a.m. Communication Studies senior Anna Kates recalled a summer when she was 19 years old and without a place of her own.

On a visit back to her hometown, she “hooked up” with an ex-boyfriend. Kates said she didn’t get along with his parents, so they got in the car and parked down the street from his house. They both fell asleep, and a few hours later his dad was knocking on her side of the window.

“All of a sudden his dad was knocking on my window, telling me to wake up his son- it was 6 or 7 in the morning. He didn’t look mad, but he didn’t look happy either,” Kates said.

While summer is a great time to catch up with buddies, party hard and save on cash for the next semester, it’s also a time when everyone is prone to making a few mistakes.

Therefore, there are a few key activities you should avoid doing: Throwing up at a public event you paid to be at, falling asleep in the car after “doing the deed” in front of your parents’ house and overloading on school.

But if you can’t refrain from the bad summer situations, try to make them worthy of a good laugh down the road.