National Cocktail Day 2024
In my Navy days I held cocktail hour pretty much throughout my enlistment. I could go for a mixed drink and was partial to vodka and gin at the Enlisted Men's Clubs in Orlando and Great Lakes. I didn't drink on base at Charleston because I had other venues to which I would venture out on liberty. At that time I had cultivated a taste for beer anyway.I found that with time my excursions to bars became increasingly sparse and I eventually drank a snootful of some shot glass cognac or other brandy at home or not at all. Nowadays it's not at all for many years.
Today is National Cocktail Day. It is observed every March 24 in celebration of alcoholic drinks for those who indulge.
Cocktails may drum up various memories of days gone by. I know some who drink them just to be social. I know others who go out of their way to drink them. Me ... I pretty much stopped drinking some 30 years back; not that I wouldn't have a drink with someone now if appropriate.
In general, during National Cocktail Day we make note of those bevereges which remind us of good times and good friends. My personal memories primarily surround copping a buzz. Tying one on. Getting schnockered if you will ...
National Cocktail Day was created by one Jace Shoemaker-Galloway as a fun day to celebrate drinking as a social function. IMHO this one could have been foregone for something a little more meaningful in the context of life.
Happy National Cocktail Day if you're so inclined !
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