Givin' it up (for now)
Sep. 11th, 2008 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantaeI've already banned alcohol from my room since last year, so that I'd only have reason to drink when I was with friends at bars/pubs.
I considered getting a drink at the pub with the German Club today, but then I thought about salmiakkikossu and how wonderful it was (even a Swede agreed today!) (not to neglect Long Drinks, which are pretty good too but not as good) and how no drink here could ever replace it, and I thought, maybe I won't drink tonight.
But when I saw the new price list at Dewey's (given that minimum drink prices were set up this summer - but they're not really all that high), I couldn't figure out what happened to $4.75 pints (the price of a glass of draught beer is comparable now to the price of a bottle of import beer, almost) and was even a little shocked, so I think I'm just gonna give up drinking altogether for the time being.
Somehow paying 5€ for a glass of beer doesn't feel so bad - maybe it's just knowing that everything costs more in general over there makes it feel more okay.
I considered getting a drink at the pub with the German Club today, but then I thought about salmiakkikossu and how wonderful it was (even a Swede agreed today!) (not to neglect Long Drinks, which are pretty good too but not as good) and how no drink here could ever replace it, and I thought, maybe I won't drink tonight.
But when I saw the new price list at Dewey's (given that minimum drink prices were set up this summer - but they're not really all that high), I couldn't figure out what happened to $4.75 pints (the price of a glass of draught beer is comparable now to the price of a bottle of import beer, almost) and was even a little shocked, so I think I'm just gonna give up drinking altogether for the time being.
Somehow paying 5€ for a glass of beer doesn't feel so bad - maybe it's just knowing that everything costs more in general over there makes it feel more okay.
