Repeal Day

2017-12-05

In my younger days I consumed alcohol. In the Navy I began hanging out at the enlisted men's club and there I could drink long and hard very cheaply. This behavior pretty much continued through my hitch and came to a slowdown sometime afterwards.

After that I would drink socially or go off on a bender like consuming half a bottle of tequila only to regret it severely afterwards.

Nowadays, I can't remember when I last had a drink of liquor, beer, or any other alcoholic beverage — not that I wouldn't imbibe ... I just have not experienced any occasions where the prospects were relevant to me personally.

I'm just a little TOO old to be hanging out at the club anymore. Besides, bar flies tend to annoy me when they start yapping.

Today is Repeal Day, marking the December 5th, 1933 end of Prohibition and the resumption of the legal consuming of alcohol.

I have never been prohibited from drinking. I know of people in my family who probably wouldn't make it without at least a snootful each day.

As for me, I am content to let it all alone until such time as I view having a drink as socially relevant. I know I'll never just "need" a drink.