Tuesday, June 23, 2009

STRESS!!

Look, there's another title. Rather fitting, seeing as I am massively stressed and frustrated with the way things are going lately. I am backward and forward, one town to another, and I don't know what to do next. I suppose it's better than being bored, but it is grating on me. I just took a shot. Thank you, Jagermeister, for calming me down.
It's true, I would not drink nearly so much if I didn't work at a package store, but I figure that I am young and I may as well have fun while I can. It's entertaining to me, the myriad of different drinks that you can buy. Really, it doesn't matter, if you consume enough of any one of them, you have reached a common end. Pick your poison baby, and drink it till you can't taste it anymore. It's really rather fun though, to try different kinds, and have some things that are really delicious rather than cheap, etc. You do begin after a while to drink for the taste rather than the feeling. I feel as if it is an adventure. I like trying new things, and while there are some things I won't touch with a 50 foot pole (i.e. Boone's Farm, Daily's Alcohol Already In It! Strawberry Daiquiri, Colt 45 Malt Liquor, Bukoff Vodka, etc.), there are plenty of affordable things to drink that are rather tasty. I enjoy being able to tell the differences between beers and have a general knowledge of them. The wine is a bit more confusing, but even that I have developed a taste for. Hard liquor is the only thing I am still picky about, and I drink far less of it than I did when I was, say, 18 and had just started drinking. Anyway - sometimes I stand at work and think of how many people you could kill with all the booze in there. We get slow sometimes on weeknights, and I get bored. The amount of alcohol in that store is enough to give thousands upon thousands of people alcohol poisoning. I really truly wonder...if you took all the booze in the store, and served it to people in one night - enough to give them alcohol poisoning, how many people would that be? There is no clear cut answer and will never be, but it's still an intriguing question. Obviously it's one of those things that could probably be estimated with time and some careful mathematics, but the fact remains that every single person is different, so there are some people who would get alcohol poisoning from just a little booze and some who would take much much more. Definitely the regulars who come in every day and buy a whole handle of coffee brandy would have a much higher tolerance than the lady who buys three little tetras and a couple of wine coolers once in a while.
The variance in tolerance of people does not just vary with alcohol, but with anything. As always, there are some people who always have a smile on their face, and some, when asked how they are doing, instantly scowl and say nothing. I guess that's why it's so hard to test things to begin with, because of so much variability in the population. Different opinions, different intelligence levels, different healthiness levels...it all becomes very confusing when you start to think about little details. I suppose that it doesn't matter really, since even if we were able to figure out how many people we could poison in one night with a lot of booze, it wouldn't really make any difference in how much or how little people choose to drink, and it certainly wouldn't solve any problems except that my curiosity about the matter would be appeased, and I'd have a very interesting little fact to tell people at parties.

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