Last night

I went to visit Maryanne at her job. She's a bartendar @ a bar in our
hood, well not her hood - but my hood. So I show up @ abt 7ish. Ask
for a virgin Bloody Mary, cuz I'm no longer drinking, and chill with the
crowd. Her roommate was there with friends and family and it was a cool
vibe.

Well about 2 hours later of course everyone is pretty tipsy by now, and
a customer, who was a friend of her roommates, starts to argue with
Maryanne about payment for drinks. First off, this guy had been buying
round after round, so he was pretty buzzed. Secondly, he didn't know
what the hell was going on. It went a lil something like this...
Maryanne: so that's gonna be $12.50 (cua they was drinking brewski and
I was drinking water at that point).

Drunk guy: ok well here it is (and he pushes like 8 bux her way).

Maryanne: Ok it's 12.50.

Drunk guy: yes and here it is.

At this point she looks @ me AND I TOTALLY GET IT!!! *EPIPHANY*
(Fyi...last year I was Maryannes #1 scholar in the drunk category)
I now understand the whole it sucks to be sober in a room full of drunks
thing. It was so frustrating to have explain to mr. Drunk guy that he
had not paid for the last round and he was being charged for 2
rounds...it was so frustrating she let it go. I would have too, there
is no point in having a discussion or rationalizing with a drunk while
you are sober. It does not work and it's frustrating.

At that moment I was sooooo happy to be sober!

And that my friends, confirmed that I need to stay sober...because I
can't afford to not be 100% here.....now!

Aregato (once again, mr. Drunks words!)