Entry for November 21, 2006

I am off for a mid-week pinty, and institution which has become rarer with the advancing years. David, he of the lager ice cream drinks, is off to Abu Dhabi imminently. So we are off for a farewell shandy.
I'm in that mid-week drinky quandry - take the car, have a Diet Coke, bring the car home; or take the car, decide to abandon it, intend to have two pints, have four, wait on a taxi, watch crap on the telly until 3am and feel fuzzy-headed and tired all day tomorrow.
When I put it like that, it's a no-brainer. However, the problem is that the question is never posed in exam conditions. The dilemma always arises in a lovely pub, with lovely shiny beer pumps, full of lovely beer, with lovely friends drinking it, from lovely ergonomic pint glasses, frosted with lovely condenstation.
That's when the question is posed. Like I said. No-brainer.