The Tolerance Plan
I have taken up (what I dub) "The Tolerance Plan" and managed to scam a few co-workers into a drink or three post-work tonight. What is the tolerance plan? Well every time I get ready for Austin or a trip to the UK... I take up drinking. The problem is that I didn't inherit enough of my father's hard-drinking Irish side and instead gained my mother's slight alcohol intolerance. Because of this I don't drink all that much. Unlike my mother I don't get a headache after a few sips of wine, instead I get it after a drink or two. Again unlike my mother, I don't dislike alcohol because of this. Instead I try my damnedest to raise my tolerance prior to trips like Austin where I know that a ridiculous bounty of alcohol will be basically all that I ingest for a week. Hence... "The Tolerance Plan". If I've planned ahead, it starts off with a drink every night, a glass of wine or a cider if you please. This quickly goes up to two drinks a night prior to my departure. It's never enough to "get drunk" but enough that after awhile my system starts to get use to the alcohol it doesn't often get. For some reason one of my co-workers finds this simply ridiculous but believe me... by 5 pm next Friday I'll be glad that I'm slightly buzzed right now.
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