It has been a long time. 22 years ago my drink of choice, which was an Absolut dry Martini on the rocks with a twist, might have cost a 5 spot, but today 15 dollars might not fetch the premier vodka Grey Goose. 15 bucks can you imagine that? Maybe some of you newcomers might know firsthand just how costly it is to drink these days. A considerable hole in the pocket it would be even in today’s dollars to be drinking alcoholically.
My spin instructor was talking condescendingly about a restaurant offering this retro price of 5 skins for a martini as if it was heresy to imbibe anything but the top shelf brands. I thought to myself maybe that explanation might be just a bit snobbish but she is an earthling and can afford the high price of alcohol because she might just have one. But for us pros after the first drink we knew it didn’t matter if the vodka was Grey Goose or Smirnov and our pinky wasn’t raised as we gulped down the toxic clear elixir. Our goal wasn’t how to drink elegantly but only to drink as much as our liver could process and do it with the least amount of paper disappearing out of our wallet.
The 5-dollar martini might be a thing of the past and as long as I stay stopped the price will never change.
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You mean 15 dollars MIGHT....
ReplyDeleteOur soin instructor (like myself) is an earthling. we need only have one or two to be happily buzzed. So why not drink the good stuff if only having a couple?? We don't drink by the bottle, which makes it not so costly.
Precisely my point. Earthlings can afford the high price of top shelf alcohol because they are drinking socially. And I would never begrudge a social drinker only the best.
ReplyDeleteWhy drink at all? Life is joyous enough if you are with the right people . Who needs a "buzz"?
ReplyDeleteYou "earthlings" might find something more deserving to spend your money on.
Well that's what I might suggest to all earthlings. But since that "altered state" is still legal people that don't have a problem will continue to drink as one of their inalienable rights. No one needs a 'buzz' but life on life's terms is softened by the magic elixir.
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