« Didn't take long at all | Main | Finger-Deep Within the Borderline »
Chug That A&W!
by goose at 04:29 AM on October 31, 2002
It’s akin to an old millennium clock or the Olsen twins legality countdown.
Comprised of a Tecate can, a digital watch, and some foil, some would call it an engineering marvel. I call it my Personal Sobriety Chronometer.
If picking at details is your game, I'll admit that it's not exactly real. Hell, I haven’t even started designing it on CAD yet. But if I ever did go to the trouble, the ingredients would be at least similar to those given, plus or minus an actual timekeeping device. I might end up having to imagine the need for a fake ID slowly ticking away, but hey, I’ll drink to that. I’ve still got some power of visualization left up there.
Regardless, the zero mark of my beer deficiency countdown is two solid months away, when John the Roommate becomes the first guy in our bona-fide college apartment to turn 21. Twenty-one!! Magically, the cause for celebration will be the means for it.
It's going to be quite a milestone for me, and this isn't even my own birthday I'm talking about. Reaching drinking age myself won't be nearly as significant as this, mostly because I'll have more pressing concerns such as finding a liver donor or two.
A warning - never let me hold your driver’s license. I sometimes carry extra “donor” stickers around.
Because I want a primary liver, plus a backup. In the industry, that's known as a "double shot."
Until then, we've got oodles of midterms and Sarsaparilla.
comments (6)
I was the last person in my apartment to turn 21. My roommates went to this bar almost every night (their longest streak was 17 days). It was a laid-back kind of dive bar with lots of hot guys with dreads and shit like that. They kept talking it up, and I was very excited to join the club.
Due to a 60% rent hike (because the school wanted to drive it out because the school wanted to build stupid school buildings there), it closed the day after my 21st birthday. And you can imagine my memories of my few visits are very unclear.
by Linz at October 31, 2002 8:54 AM
Dont worry, that happenes to lots of people. Hey dan? how long will you be the only person 21 in the apartment (assuming everyone there stays that long)
by Bat Boy at October 31, 2002 1:45 PM
**under 21
by Bat Boy at October 31, 2002 1:45 PM
Linz - I'm so sorry. Hey, at least prohibition is over. God bless the *cough*th amendment.
Brian - Will the Roommate, the second youngest in the apt, turns 21 a year before me. I won't be able to legally share a pitcher with the guys in Anteater Pub till my 5th year. Damn.
by Goose at October 31, 2002 3:01 PM
Im pretty sure you do not want my liver, even though I am far from being able to drink legally(last one out of ALL my friends)..By then, I hope they have some kind of man-made one, so I dont have to worry about the sorry state mine is in.
by LA at October 31, 2002 3:35 PM
Coincidentally, the repeal of Prohibition was the 21st Amendment. Just showing off my knowledge of history again.
by mg at October 31, 2002 4:52 PM