I mentioned to
a friend who I am currently corrupting the other night (his first time
drunk, according to him) that most of being drunk is
mental. Not mental as in,
strange chemicals have infected my
brain and done bizarre things to my
mental processes, but mental as in
I think [I am drunk], therefore I am [drunk].
He was
staggering pretty noticably (except when he forgot he was drunk), and did not agree with my
hypothesis that this was due more to how his mind thought he should be acting than the fact that his
motor skills were truly that
impaired. I insisted that, as a
seasoned drinker, I rarely stagger and attributed this to the fact that I discovered somewhere along the way that I'm able to exercise quite a bit of
control over myself even while
inebriated. This is because I see no reason not to. I've been known to appear
stone sober minutes before
puking my guts out.
I suppose if I went to
Glasgow, it wouldn't take me very long to get
arrested.