What with all of the upcoming opportunities to drink\u2026er\u2026I mean the holidays, I\u2019ve been in the liquor store more than usual lately.<\/p>\n
And even though I\u2019m now a sanctioned adult and fully authorized to be there, I still feel weird about it.<\/p>\n
Is it just me on that one?!<\/p>\n
Because I\u2019m always vaguely worried someone may have called ahead from college through the tightly interconnected liquor store network and warned them I\u2019m on my way.\u00a0 So by the time I get there, I feel like everyone at the store is spying me with their little eyes and they know, KNOW, about the very wrong Flaming Dr. Pepper Shots Incident backintheday.\u00a0 (In my own defense, I didn\u2019t spill the drink that caused the bartop to go up in those weird blue flames.\u00a0 That was someone else.\u00a0 I was just the Idea Gal on the Flaming Dr. Pepper Shots.)<\/p>\n
Or perhaps my feeling of unease comes from being at the liquor store in the middle of the day, when it\u2019s so oddly quiet and everyone\u2019s got their peepers on each other being all judge-y about stuff that happened a million years ago.<\/p>\n
I mean, who even GOES to liquor stores in the middle of the day?!?<\/p>\n
I was wondering that very\u00a0question the last time I was at the liquor store doing a little holiday booze hunting when I say him.\u00a0 Him!\u00a0 Neighbor Man.<\/p>\n
No, not Helpful Next Door Neighbor Man.\u00a0 (You still have to get yourself one of those if you haven\u2019t already.).\u00a0 It was the Neighbor Man who got so loop-de-looped at the last block party that he stumbled up to Sonny who for some reason was dragging around his\u00a0squeaky red wagon,\u00a0and asked for a ride home.\u00a0 Sonny agreed, so\u00a06\u20195\u201d Neighbor Man\u00a0folded himself into the wagon whereupon\u00a0Sonny brought him\u00a0home then came back to the party with an empty wagon and a\u00a0two dollar tip.<\/p>\n
And there you have it.\u00a0\u00a0THAT is\u00a0who is in the liquor store in the middle of the day.\u00a0 That Neighbor Man.<\/p>\n
Well, and me.\u00a0 Thanks for bringing that up.\u00a0 So you can just shut it now.\u00a0 And you know what else you can just shut it about?\u00a0\u00a0 That Flaming Dr. Pepper Shots thing from\u00a0college.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry I ever brought that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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