I have come to the conclusion that drinking heavily makes you stupid. I mean really, do you ever stop and think before you do something - after chugging down a half rack? No, you do not. Now I have come to this realization by pure trial and error. And I have tested the limits many (many) times to no avail. Chances are you will buy beer, drink heavily and make a complete ass out of yourself and or others. For instance, I recently pounded down a few and took my little car 4x4-ing through a bean field. The mechanic still can not find the broken part that makes the clanking noise. But it is going back into the shop today, so well see. Another trial and error encounter… I played strip poker with a couple of friends (first time player) and did naked cartwheels in the back yard, flashing some cars in the process, at 2 am. I live in an apartment building and have neighbors everywhere, this is not a good setting for naked drunken cartwheels. Trial and error example number three… calling old friends in the middle of the night that you have just recently re-acquainted yourself with is a bad thing. They have no idea that you are a drunken fool on the weekends and do stupid stuff while heavily intoxicated. So there you have it… you know that the previous examples are mirror images to drunken experiences that you may have had or are planning to have now, but please take this into consideration: many people go to jail every day for doing stupid stuff while drinking. I am in no way saying that we should stop being drunk, mindless idiots, but we need to start either doing it in a safe environment, under supervision, or maybe invent something that will prevent us from making complete asses of ourselves. You know that we can not count on our conscious because when we get to the point of ten feet tall and bullet proof, car karaoke-ing to 80’s glam rock, your conscious is drunk too. Probably wasted is more the term we should use. There are no limits to my drunkenness lately. I have lost old friends, ruined my car (that I have come to know and love) and worst of all, the neighbors are looking at me funny now. I am moving to a new neighborhood – one with a fenced backyard and lots of trees. And I may even mail my car keys to the police station to prevent drunken idiocy on the weekends. I wonder if they would make me go to AA or something. But anyway, drinking can be extremely fun and allow you to get some pent-up aggressions out, but remember please drink with responsibility, and you may eventually find out that you are NOT ten feet tall and bullet proof. -J