Book Review: Our End Of The Lake by Ron Foster
Along the way they meet some people and get drunk with them. He gets a nice little .380 by trading money he knows is worthless that he acquired from an abandoned semi with the bouncers relative. Shortly therafter he gets an operational tractor in a lopsided deal and uses it to drive the rest of the way home. He makes it home to Montgomery and his elderly mother, ex girlfriend (who is a “prepper” and they are still close) and some other acquaintances. After some hanging out and drinking they decide that they need to bug out because things are going to get dangerous. They proceed to “acquire” a couple more operational vehicles and then the whole tribe heads out to some lake.
Seriously?
Interesting Video
Tam linked to a video. Two young women are walking down the street and a staggering drunk spits at them, seeming to hit one. They walk off camera and her friend comes back to presumably yell at the staggering drunk who then KO’s her with an elbow to the face. Warning, the video I am about to link to portrays real life violence, namely a chick getting KOed by a jerk. You can watch the video here if so inclined.
The gal really messed up by coming back and yelling at him. Of course I am not saying she deserved what followed but it could have been avoided. When the other person is clearly aggressive and a lot bigger/ stronger than you escalating a situation is not smart.
The legitimate options would be to A) call the cops, B) just leave, which only makes sense if you want to avoid interacting with cops due to warrants, being 18 drinking on a fake ID or have a pocket full of designer drugs, or lastly C) violence. I won’t debate this one, I would send the guy to the ER for sure. However that option isn’t so available for gals. Unless she wanted to shoot the guy or fastpitch a brick to the back of his head fighting with a drunk (even as drunk as this guy) jerk like that is a bad option for most women. It is worth noting that cops look for someone that shoots a guy or cracks a skull with 50 mile per hour brick a lot more aggressively than for winners of late night fisticuffs.
Note that none of the options involved talking to this guy. Even a big healthy guy would be stupid to do that. You are not going to have a rational conversation so it is better to just act if you are so inclined. As Wifey said “you don’t talk to crazy.”
My Drunk Kitchen: MRE’s
I was going to take a bunch of pictures and talk about gear I regularly use today. Really I had a great post planned, honest I did. However it just didn’t happen. No reason in particular, just all of a sudden it was 8 oclock at night, I hadn’t started and had not motivation. I stumbled onto this great youtube video where a girl who apparantly drinks and does food reviews tries an MRE. Warning there is a bit of foul language.
I hope you all find this half as amusing as I do!
The “leftovers” are pretty good also.
Quote of the Day
“Are you drinking or bowling?”
The guy at the bowling alley to some guys before assigning them a lane. I wasn’t aware that the two are mutually exclusive. In my mind it was sort of like pool or fishing or watching football where the activities are often paired with drinking.
Positive Friends
quote of the day
“The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid”
-Misty
quote of the day
“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss . . .”
-Robert A. Heinlein