> > No one said anything, other than ask if I was ok, but I'm sure they thought I was drunk as a skunk. I was so embarrassed. I rushed back into the building, and I was covered in dirt and reeked of alcohol. I cleaned up what I could, and began to get the coats, but I got a lot of weird looks. The Colonel finally told me to go wash up because I looked and smelled like a drunken bum. Gah.

Before my parents were married, my father travelled to meet my mother's parents for the first time. He had two bottles of wine in his suitcase as an expensive "I have to impress these people" gift for them. They smashed during the trip and every single item of clothing he brought reeked of booze for his entire visit.

Brunnen-"not sure what's scarier, that or the fact that my mother's parents still let him marry her"G