ONE OF LIFE'S ETERNAL QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Why am I here? What does it all mean? Who shot JFK? How is it that Chinese restaurants can add anything to your dish for only an additional $1.00? Existential dilemmas? No, these are mere children's riddles!Among the truly difficult-to-answer questions that haunt men's souls is, "Do I have a drinking problem?" No definitive set of circumstances triggers the "yes" answer. Everyone's different, everyone has his or her own limits, expectations, and obligations.
That said, I think I've found the scenario that qualifies as clear evidence of A Drinking Problem: if you sell your 6 year-old step-daughter's beagle to buy beer . . . then you have a Drinking Problem. No explanations, no excuses, no qualifications. Drinking. Problem.
As explained by Reuters, an unemployed German man:
offered to take [his 6 year-old step-daughter's] dog for a walk and then stopped at a bar where he convinced the owner to buy the 3-year-old dog for 40 euros ($53) . . . [and then] spent the proceeds quenching his thirst for beer.Even in Germany, I'm guessing that $53 buys a lot of beer. On his next bender, I wonder how many he'll get for selling the step-daughter?
posted by Mike at 9:24 AM
7 Comments:
g-dammit, I was going to use this in the observations.
Bastard. :)
Does the handsome little pooch in the picture belong to you?
I'd like to tell you I'm sorry, Ed.
But I'm not. So I won't.
Kelly - No, there are no pooches in Chateau Mike. And I'm the only handsome little anything here.
But most importantly . . . BUSCH beer? In my house? Tastes like crap, owned by the same family that owns the St. Louis Cardinals, and pronounced the same as you know who? No way.
Well, at least he probably got some decent German beer out of the deal, unlike that nasty Busch in the picture.
The step daughter may get him some fine Belgian ales.
Actually, I think its possible that was my Mom's dog. I got sent that picture years ago, after my sister had thrown a party.
It looked just like the dog they had at the time and they drink cheap beer.
Then again, they may have found a picture with a similar doog and flooring and thought it would be cute to send it out to friends and family...
I might ask sometime...
BTW, Jeff Foxworthy invented this device. Its known as a Redneck Pet Carrier.
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