2022-11-12

National Happy Hour Day 2022

Gin and Tonic    
Back in the day I went to bars. Beginning right about my hitch in the Navy I could be found at various watering holes in and about Charleston, South Carolina and points sometimes far beyond in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic Europe, Scandinavia, North Africa, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, and of course, Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico.

My pursuit of altered consciousness followed me for a good while after the Navy and whereas I could not tolerate alcohol much at all when I went in you couldn't keep me away from it after I got out.

This is primarily a function of that company with which I found myself and various other secondary reasons which are insignificant to my present longstanding teetotaler state.

So one of my favorite past times was happy hour at the enlisted mens club at Orlando Naval Training Center. Mixed drinks were a dollar, two bucks for a double and I could be seen staggering back to the bachelor enlisted quarters to sleep it off early most evenings.

So today is National Happy Hour Day. Though I no longer participate, the memories persist to this day. If you pursue cocktails on November 12th from around five through seven pm on that day you're right in the middle of something I once loved to do often !

I was once a gin and tonic man, but that was then and this is now.