Way To Four-Beer It
Posted: August 26th, 2003 | Author: Carter Rabasa | Filed under: Uncategorized | CommentsA perfect description of doing something in an utterly half-assed way, where you would have been better off not doing it, or doing it all the way. Courtesy of the Sports Guy:
Here’s an analogy, which we’ll call the “Four-beer analogy”: Let’s say you’re hitting a sports bar with your buddies for Monday Night Football. You could have two or three beers, throw down some chicken wings, play some Golden Tee, wager on the home team, bond with your boys, then head home when the outcome has been decided. Or you could do everything from above, but keep throwing down beers until you’re bombed and someone has to drive you home. Either way, it’s going to be a good time.
Well, unless you have four beers.
That kills you. You’re not sober enough to drive home. You’re not quite drunk enough that you feel like you really let loose; if anything, you’re more groggy than anything. And you drank just enough that you’ll have trouble getting up for work/class the following morning. The next day, you always end up wishing you had more beers or less beers. Just not four.
Well, unless you have four beers.
That kills you. You’re not sober enough to drive home. You’re not quite drunk enough that you feel like you really let loose; if anything, you’re more groggy than anything. And you drank just enough that you’ll have trouble getting up for work/class the following morning. The next day, you always end up wishing you had more beers or less beers. Just not four.
So, for instance, I four-beered my tenure as El Presidente of the Indy division. Either shouldn’t have done it, or should have gone insane.
