My Dad and His Dad.
My Dad likes a beer, preferably his McEwan's Export beer but most dark ales would suffice. He would go through a crate in a week at his own pace, interspliced with long trips twice daily to "go get the paper".

But I never saw him drunk.

There were times when he ought to have been drunk (weddings, birthdays, free wine at the posh theatre do's, etc)and shown none of the usual symptoms; slurring, silliness, calling Sandra Debbie by mistake, sniffing out the best kebab van. I don't know how he did it.

Now. When I saw my Grandad, it was the same. He'd drink rum, neat. Dark Navy rum for the Navy war hero sitting in His Armchair. Never saw him drunk.

Well, come to think of it. The point of this story is that I have seem them both drunk. Once.

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It was a busy weekend. My cousin had got married, I know because I was there, a strapping lad of around 16 about to introduce his girlfriend to the family. A terrifying moment in a young man's life which had so far been 50% successful.

I had managed to introduce her to my mum, she knows this because she was there. My father, on the other hand was not there. He hadn't actually turned up to the wedding. He hadn't turned up to the restaurant after-party. There was an awkward space at our table, not only was Dad's chair empty but there was empty chair next to my Grandma as well.

We paid, left, turned into the street and could hear the sound of two drunks singing in the street. We struggled to place source of the noise but soon sniffed it out to be coming from the vicinity of the grassy round-a-bout.

There was my Dad and His Dad, arms over shoulders, dressed in suits for a wedding they skipped to go to the races, waving a bottle of McEwans in one free arm and a little swigging sized bottle of Navy dark rum in the other, while they drunkenly chanted and span in little tandem spirals.

You are probably going to try and guess who was holding which bottle - but you are wrong, it was the other way around! Ha!

Stay tuned for "First Time I Saw My Dad Hungover". (Spoiler alert: The Bacon did it)
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 0:57, 3 replies)

You can do wavy lines like this:
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( Zuowan, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 2:47, closed)

Well
I'm sorry I didn't do wavvy lines in your preferred manner.
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 11:34, closed)

That's ok, just don't do it again.

( Zuowan, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 5:48, closed)