Life Lessons

As part of my summer program, I had to endure an afternoon with Lockheed Martin. Fortunately, I wasn’t seated *too* far away from one of my friends, so we started *passing* notes (read: engineers build mighty nice paper airplanes ;-) The discussion turned toward the party on the previous Friday night which I avoided by escaping home for Shabbos. Excerpts:
30 beers
½ gallon of punch
bottle of wine
+ 15 people
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fun for everyone

Sounds like fun, right? Well, midway through the event my friend remembered the klal that “ wine + liquor = BAD..” Now, I’ve lived through enough traumatic Purims to know that mixing drinks is a sure way to make you sick. Well, I used the ol’ “I don’t drink and I know that. Boo-ya!” shtuch. Well, my friend decided to enlighten me further:

“Well, it’s actually the order that matters:
Liquor before beer—you’re in the clear
Beer before liquor—makes you sicker”

You learn something new everyday, I guess….