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I admit, I’ve had a bunch of bad booze experiences. The first one was when I was 15, and a friend and I mixed ginger ale with just about everything in my parents’ liquor cabinet, but my worst episode of overindulging came from drinking at least 10 plastic cups from a barrel of Riverwest Stein.
This was about 10 years ago, and I was at a party that, coincidentally, took place at a house that’s on the corner of my current block. It was a beautiful fall night and about a dozen people -- all of whom I knew -- were hanging out on the porch and drinking Stein.
I made the mistake of standing next to the barrel for the majority of the party, chatting it up with everyone as they tapped their beer -- and refilling my own cup in the process. Finally, at about 1 a.m., I made my sixth trip to the bathroom for the night and realized, mid-pee, that I was totally tanked. Suddenly, the linoleum floor looked so cool and inviting that I almost let myself lay down for just a “few minutes.”
Instead, I finished up in the bathroom, stumbled over to my husband, hissed in his ear that we HAD to leave, and slipped away without saying goodbye to any of my friends. I barely made it through the door of my house before yakking the Stein and, sadly, the $25 in sushi I had devoured prior to the party.
Somehow, I can still eat sushi, but Stein, forget it. Just the smell of it reminds me of being bad naked in front of my trying-not-to-smirk husband as I was hurling into the toilet and saying in between rounds, “I’m dying! Seriously, I’m dying!”
OK, so what beverage did you drink to the point you can’t even consider taking a sip? Jägermeister? Peach schnapps? Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill wine?
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
