Drunks sure can be exhausting!

[bif]

We had some friends for dinner last night. One couple left around ten o'clock. My wife and the other couple were on an alcohol-fueled roll. They kept yapping away. Finally, around 11:15 I went up to bed. They ended up staying until 12:30. In my drinking days, I would have been the last to retire. I most likely would have stayed up another hour drinking and watching tv that would be a blur in the morning. Thank god those days are over!

[Walleye]

1. I know just how you feel. And you doing the smart thing.

I look back on my drinking days sometimes like it was a different person, or I wish it had been

[brewens]

2. I quit mostly because I was off work on L&I for an injured knee and decided I couldn't just hang

out at the Eagles lodge and drink beer all the time. Too much free time wasn't good for me or my wallet. I never planned on quitting permanently.

For a while I hung out there with the boys anyway. That was okay, but after pounding beers for a while, my buddies got drunker and louder, and I wasn't on the same trip. It wasn't the same.

As a young adult my dream was to own a little bar some day. Then I got a job at a beer distributor. Delivering to the bars that opened early clued me in. It would be more like having drunks in your home all day every day. No thanks.

[Stuart G]

3. Yes, and, I agree totally.