Also, because it makes Al Gore happy or whatever.

[dira]

Here is why I need to keep those reusable shopping bags in my car:

Because, inevitably, on the day when I reward myself for overcoming inertia, social anxiety, and ... whatever is usually going on in my head, to make a long-overdue doctor's appointment AND finally ask a co-worker for dentist and eye doctor recommendations AND actually make a dentist's appointment, and decide to reward myself (and prepare for tonight's hockey game) by stopping by that liquor store that's on the way home to see if they have Hendrick's gin and/or any locally-brewed Belgian-style blonde ales*, and wind up buying 750mL of one and a six-pack of the other...

Inevitably, on that day, when I arrive home I will discover my lovely Bible-study-attending downstairs neighbor playing wiffle-bat baseball in the backyard with five neighborhood kids plus her toddler, and, also inevitably, the nicely anonymous paper bag from the liquor store will rip under the combined weight of all that alcohol and/or sin, and while I am attempting to repackage my haul into that one forlorn Sainsbury's bag that I don't even know why it's in my car, the six-year-old girl who lives next door and has taken a shine to me will come over to peer into my car and ask if those are all my drinks.

*facepalm*

But on the bright side, I will be enjoying a bottle of Milwaukee Brewing Company's Flaming Damsel with my pizza tonight.


*Let me just say, no one is more surprised than me to realize I have some inkling of an actual kind of beer I actually like to drink. Apparently having a brother who's a bartender is at long last having some sort of effect...

Comments

[stepps]

LOL, Murphy's Law, occurs every time. After 6 weeks in Europe this winter with my 2 Christian BFFs dining out and drinking wine/beer every night I have finally managed to break BFF1s habit of calling me alcoholic whenever I ask her to buy me wine with the shopping or have a glass after work at 9pm.

[themeletor]

Water Buffalo Bison Blonde!

it is brewed on the corner of Water and Buffalo, obviously. also very drinkable, if you like that sort of thing (which, if you like MBC's Flaming Damsel -- which not going to lie I first bought for the sexy lady on the pack -- you do). also probably you already knew this but New Glarus' Spotted Cow is a Very Good Thing.

[dira]

Yeah, God KNOWS what the downstairs neighbors think of me. Although they keep giving me baked goods, so apparently I'm not out of their graces thus far. :)

[dira]

Oooh. I'll have to look for that one next. (Though they also had a ... can't remember the name of the brewery, but a strawberry blonde, which I am quite curious about.) This was my first time trying Flaming Damsel and I have to admit, I was pretty swayed by the name and the illo. :)

[tatterdemalionkit]

Heee, such a lush! At least the six-year-old isn't in the D.A.R.E. program yet?

(pee ess: Hi! I'm new and fairly harmless, here for the fic and whatever other miscellanea you post about. :D)

[strangecobwebs]

Oh, honey... At least they won't ask you to babysit?

[dira]

Right? I'm a WILD WOMAN with my two drinks in six hours last night. :)

(hi! welcome!)

[dira]

TRUE FACT.

[ellen_fremedon]

Ooh, Spotted Cow! One of the many things I look forward to about WisCon.

[were_duck]

A Flaming Damsel?? Is that like... a drag queen? Someone should collect the dysfunctional family of WI beer-- your Flaming Damsel, Tyrenena's Bitter Woman, the Grumpy Troll's Captain Fred, New Glarus Dancing Man Wheat...

Also, hi! Wonderful to see you on Saturday!

[dira]

I think she was some sort of sideshow act, and she, like, set herself on fire and then leapt off of something into water? Or something? They tell the story on the side of the six-pack, but I wasn't paying that much attention. *g*

Also, hi! Yes! Excellent to see you as well. :)