Blogosaurus Vex

July 30th, 2009

Drinking with the police: it was really surprising!  Based on my weight I was instructed to down five ounces of hard alcohol in one hour, in my case in the form of gin and tonics.  I am not a heavy drinker and this was the most I’ve ever had so fast probably in all my life, and let me tell you, I was pretty looped.  But guess what?  An hour later, at maximum alcohol saturation, I did not blow over the legal limit of .08.

Not kidding!  My friend John was there and he was given 8 drinks in one hour, and he too didn’t blow over the limit.

Still not kidding!

I guess I had a pretty inaccurate idea of how much alcohol is permissable in drivers in that I thought the tolerance was lower.  I now realize that when someone is busted for driving while over the limit they are probably utterly shitfaced, because if little old 125lb me can stay legal on 5 drinks in one hour, then shit, you really have to be trying to be illegal.

Note: You can still be charged with impaired driving if you are weaving or driving unsafely with alcohol on board, even if you aren’t over .08.  Driving while impaired is a different charge than driving while over .08.  (And you shouldn’t drink and drive at all, ever.  I wouldn’t want anyone to take these observations as an encouragement to drink and drive because, hello, that is stupid and you are an idiot jackass if you do so.)

Still.  I am surprised at the findings.

And then I got hungover, which is no surprise considering how much I had all at once.  So in the end I was glad I went to the concert alone because I wasn’t required to talk with anyone, and I didn’t feel much like chatting.  More like sitting very still and monitoring the tender condition of my stomach for vomit potential.  Fortunately the worst had passed by the time the show started, and I had a really great time.  Clutch is great live and the crowd was going bananas.

I was disappointed that they didn’t play any of my favourite songs, which is saying something, because I have about twenty of them.  But they have something like 10 full length albums to choose from, including a new CD that they played heavily from, so my twenty favourites average out to two tracks per disc and, when you look at it that way, I guess it wouldn’t be hard to miss them when making one’s set list.  Nonetheless it was a great show – my non-favourite songs are still much beloved to me.  As an encore they played Big News I and Animal Farm from the first CD, which was awesome.  (These details are for Cousin Pat, who is also a fan but didn’t go last night.)

So the whole day was a bit odd but interesting.

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