Tales of a RevEngineer

When you're a grown-up, you get to enjoy beer.

Now, you have it when you're in high school and college. You have it. But when you're an adult, you really get to enjoy it.

Let's say you work all day, you're on your way home, you're really tired. But it's that really good kind of tired, you know? You know that you're on your way home, and soon you're gonna be at your home. You're gonna be by yourself for a little bit. Get home, go to your fridge, and you get yourself a bottle of beer. It's ice cold. You open it up, and it makes that great sound, that hissing sound, you know? Even the cap hitting the counter makes a great sound.

You go to your living room, sit down on the couch. You bring that bottle up to your lips, and you can smell that smell, that beer smell. It reminds you of what beer smelled like to you when you were a little kid. You didn't like the taste of beer, but now it's a fond memory, remembering when you were a little kid, and things were really simple, and you didn't like the taste of beer. But now you're a grown-up. You take a sip, and it really tastes like beer. And you've had plenty of beers in your life, but this one reminds you what beer tastes like. It's kind of sharp on your tongue. It's a little bitter. It's so cold.

There's nothing else like it. A nice, cold beer.

And you're allowed to have it!

Just make sure you eat first!

-Paul F. Tompkins, "Driven to Drink"