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By clover kicker (Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:28:08 PM EST) (all tags)

So I'm at a party and run into a guy from my hometown. We're sort of acquainted but don't know each other all that well.

He's drinking Johnny Walker straight out of the bottle, and makes a big deal of offering some to me in front of everyone. He's probably thinking about what a huge nerd I was in high school, or has noticed that I'm not drinking much at the party.

He has no way of knowing what a raging drunk I was in university, or that I had a brief flirtation with single malt a few years back. Oddly enough I'd never tried Johnny Walker before.

So I theatrically sniff the opening of the bottle, take a slug, swallow, and take a deep breath so as not to waste a single fume.

He laughs, I've passed the test.

"So why did you sniff the bottle?"

"Well, I want to actually taste it and enjoy it. If all I wanted was to get drunk, I could just drink fucking mouthwash."

Full discussion: http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/3/30/21288/2794