wet bread wisdom

and a punch monkey's approach to enforcing sobriety

Dear reader,

I’m having a problem.

It’s an ethical delima.

You see, I sling booze when I wait tables.

And?

I think booze is pure shite. It’s the fucking devil.

Binge drinking in young women is linked to higher instances of breast cancer. My own wife, a survivor of Stage 4 breast cancer for 15 years now, links her battle directly to the years she spent binge drinking in her youth.

And alcohol for middle aged men?

It’s a different kind of cancer. (remember that we middle aged men are the best in the world at suicide? Booze is our Tenzing Norgay.

And when booze is mixed with cocaine?

It’s fucking deadly.

Take this video for example - in it you’ll see retired NHL enforcer Nick Tarnasky forced to pummel a coked up drunk.

I mean, it is quite excellent watching a six foot three two hundred and sixty pound punch-monkey rag doll a dude eighty pounds lighter than him while saying ‘BANG BANG BANG’ with every punch to the drunks kisser.

Right?

Who here hasn’t had a moment dealing with an unreasonable drunk w…