You know your student loan is about to run out when...

So I've discovered a secret, and I think its a great idea but apparently I'm not as sneaky as I thought. Following suit with my "its not alcoholism..." mantra, I have recently been hiding the fact that I drink wine at the pub. The neighbourhood, good ole'boy, pitcher slammin' pub. For the cheapo winos, one knows that red wine, no matter how cheap, is mildly palatable. Cheap white wine is antifreeze, and probably not legal. So when one finds themselves in non-wine country, and braves against the norm of pitchers and rye, this is the solution I have found.


Order your wine in a pint glass.


OF COURSE wine glasses are much more fun, fancy, and sophisticated...but one doesn't always want to stand out. Also, most often when my classmates and I attend "such pub", it's not usually to be sophisticated.

After braving the magnum of unnamed "red wine", and a pound of wings (which is actually quite tasty! BBQ sauce and red wine are a great pair!), and the resulting jeering from my beer chugging friends, my first solution was to cross the line and drink.....vodka-tonic. When I was 21, vodka-tonic soothed my tattered soul well enough, and also made me leave my inhibitions well, well behind. These days, its a trip down fuzzy memory lane to my undergrad.........let's just not rehache that....

I recently went to another pub, and legitimately ordered wine, and they served them in high-balls. And lo, my "Neighbourhood Pub" solution beheld.

Pros To Ordering Your Wine in aPint Glass:

1. You get a pint of wine.
   
2. Your beer-buddies think its guiness...for the first half.
3. Its crap wine, tastes like grape-juice anyway--feels like its a coctail

Cons to Ordering Your Wine in a Pint Glass:

1. You get a PINT of WINE. (see: inhibitions, left behind)
2. Its not so sneaky when you get "red wine teeth" from the crap wine
3. After the first half-pint, it looks like grape juice.
4. When your friends DO find out....the oversized spigelau doesnt seem so bad.

Seems I only write during exams. Seems my wine consumption also increases over exams. Coincidence?