This is why I should start drinking...

I got to the wedding I was singing at the other day and the guy who's in charge of the band had already been drinking for hours. This is always a wild ride. As a matter of fact, he actually calls it his “wild ride”. We’ll be playing songs that we don’t even know are coming. The song will start and we’ll have to figure out what they are in the first few measures so we know who’s supposed to be singing. When he started drinking a half a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, I knew we were in for trouble. I have a great sense of humor, but this sometimes had potential for disaster. He was laughing and fun and said, “Come on! Lighten up. I look ridiculous when I’m sober.”…Interestingly enough, that made sense to me for some reason. I still don’t understand why people need to drink in order to have fun though. I’ve never had that problem. I have fun wherever I go…but then again…I’ve always hated being around drunk people. So maybe that’s the key to everything. It does seem that people are way freer to do stupid things when they are drinking. I’m almost always rational…other than the time I was listening to techno and running through my house with scissors…but I actually found that to be extremely humorous and said out loud, “Oh my gosh! That’s crazy! I just ran with scissors!”

So what is this fascination with overwhelming amounts of alcohol? Do people really need it in order to have fun, or do people need it in order to have an excuse for having fun? I guess I have fun nearly all the time…except when I’m worried about the behavior of the people around me when they are drunk. There’s nothing I can really do about that though…if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!…I will practice by slurring my speach and spilling things on myself. MY! That is FUN!…