June 1, 2009
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Twenty-One
Friends, as of yesterday, I have officially reached the age of 21. Sure, chronologically, I became 21 several months ago, but yesterday felt like my rite of passage. You see, yesterday I purchased my first can of beer. I marched right in there, picked it from the shelf, showed my ID, and walked out feeling manly. Granted, the beer was to bait a slug trap to keep them from eating my petunias, but that's beside the point. The point is that I was old enough to legally purchase it and finally did so. I'm so proud of myself (not that I have any shortage of pride).
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." - Dave Barry
Comments (6)
haha, good read.
can't wait until I'm 21
there's only one thing I wanna do.
Go up to a cop, drink a beer and say "what are you gonna do?"
Congrats.
You know, it irks me that at 18, you are deemed old enough to be sent halfway across the world to die or suffer all sorts of horrible injuries "for your country", but you're not deemed old enough to have a beer or a cigarette. It just makes no sense whatsoever.
"Hooray Beer!" Wow really? XD I've tried beer when my boyfriend had some at dinners or outings and I never liked any of them - the taste or smell, EXCEPT for Corona which doesn't taste like any other beer. :p I do however love Mike's Hard drinks and all those girly fruity types. ^_~ But as anyone knows I'm not a drinker, I just drink like one or two then I'm fine. When I turn 21 in November I just look forward to being able to order my own fruity drinks at dinner instead of sharing, haha. I have definitely never heard of them being used as a slug trap, though.
That was the single greatest alcohol related story I've ever heard! XD Good luck with the slugs, too.
Congratulations! I look forward to your upcoming post about having to send the slugs to AA!
It makes me kind of glad I'm in the UK. In most other countries, the legal age is 21 as well. It's strange because you can get married, join the army, drive, smoke, gamble, etc. and yet you can't drink. I don't really understand why they do it.
Die, slugs, die!!!!!! Last year, the slugs got most of the vegetable patch, it looked horrible. They had munched holes everywhere. It was as if the whole garden had been blasted with a rifle.