HOW TO RUIN A GOOD THING

I've heard it said that alcoholics can drink 12-24 beers in one evening. That is astonishing to me. Some, I suppose, drink that much nearly every night.

My drink of choice is diet coke in a bottle. Since I can't find those, I go to diet coke, the 8 ounce size, in plastic bottle. Also, bottled water, Dasani is my water because their bottle doesn't fold and buckle when I unscrew the lid.

In addition, diet orange Sunkist, unfortunately in a can, and diet root beer from Hansens. Also in a can.

Once in awhile a full pop Fanta orange that reminds me of the orange drink we served when I worked at Burger Chef in the day.

But I cannot under any circumstance imagine sitting down and drinking even two in a row. Oh sure over the course of the evening. I might even have 3, but I doubt it.

Once at Sundance, a golf course half the way to California, they served up chicken wings for free. After our front nine, I tried to drown my sorrows in a dozen or so wings. I may have underestimated how many I took, but that lasted through most of the back 9. My buddy Bob, tripled my number and polished them off before I finished mine if memory serves.

We've played maybe a half dozen times since then at Sundance, and they've never offered them again. I point to that day, to that time, as the end of that perk for playing golf there.

One of my favorite foods on the golf course was at Green Hills in MTV. When it got cold, they would serve up some great chili in large Styrofoam cups. With a lid on it, the chili would last quite a few holes on that back nine. On the front nine, too, for another buddy of mine, Sam.

Whether alcohol, soda, water (recently a woman died after drinking too much water to try to win a contest), chicken wings, or chili, too much is simply too much. But you already knew that.