Always pay alcohol the respect it deserves. Alcohol wields immense power, and to underestimate that power—even in rare, isolated instances—is sheer foolishness and a recipe for unmitigated disaster. You may think you exercise unconditional control over alcohol, but that is pure whimsy. Alcohol may lie low in the weeds—timid as all get-out and as polite and subservient as a house servant being paid a six figure salary—for nine hundred and ninety nine times that you “socially drink”, but then on that thousandth time it will hideously arise like The Creature from the Black Lagoon and move swiftly to ruin your evening, if not a small part of your life, when one considers how utterly important special relationships are to the human species. DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!!!!! Always remember, alcohol is not inherently evil. Akin to a loaded gun that you hold in your hand, you alone wield the power to make it so.
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