I don't have many criticisms, aside from the set up is just a bit contrived....No Uber, no Lyft? No regular taxi?
Was he going to drive his Dad's cab back drunk?
Eh, I work with someone whose parents run a taxi company. She lives a few block from me. One night a few of us went out after work, we were calling it a night, so out of instinct I pulled out my phone to call an Uber, I told her "I'm about to get this Uber", she gave me the

So for the son of a taxi driver to not even have Uber or Lyft cross his mind makes sense to me.
And he was thirsty as hell to go to this party, something he clearly wasn't used to doing and he was telling his boy, probably his only friend, about the girls were going to be there. He wasn't thinking straight. He'd only had sex once and he was about to be kicking it with the basketball team.
And being a college student living at home with parents, he might've not had the money to pay for a taxi.
Even if he ended up at the party, he would've either stood there awkwardly before driving back home or gotten drunk as fukk. He really wasn't planning shyt out, he just wanted to get there quickly as possible.