According to a recent Forbes Magazine article, Milwaukee has been voted America's Drunkest City. I take great umbrage to this! Look at us over there! Drunk! As a New Yorker, and a drunk one at that, how the hell did we not even make the Top 10? Or the Top 20? What's that? NOT EVEN THE TOP 30? Yeah, that's right. We were ranked 32. Forbes used some stupid scientificky methodology of ranking. Each city was ranked in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism. Okay, you meticulous number crunchers of Forbes. Just because it looks one way on paper doesn't mean that's how it really is in real life. Hell, Communism works great on paper. But, we all see how that worked out.
New York is one of the few cities that closes bars down at 4 a.m. Add the after hours to that and I got your number crunching right here! Come out drinking with me and my peoples one night, Forbes. Let's see how well your statistics and pie charts and graphs work. I'll make you NYC's drunken bitch!
Besides. Things like this always happen to me when I'm out drinking. Top that Milwaukee!
Only recovering- and "Weekend"- alcoholics (i.e., those who drink only to have something to confess in church, or to have something to tell their co-workers on Monday morning) would ever admit to being an alcoholic. Most alcoholics don't even really realize that they are, let alone admit it. And I think most of those people prefer to drink their vodka-behind-the-washing-machine or their whiskey-in-the-toilet-tank, cry, and beat their children in the sanctity of their own homes, thank you very much.
Posted by: mike. | August 25, 2006 at 10:38 AM
To add to what Mike said, I think NYC has more "functioning alcoholics" and that skews the numbers. I know at least half my family is. Doesn't mean they can't hold down a job or are bad people, they just have a problem with alcohol. Me, I am one of those "weekend binge drinkers" now but I was an all out, every night of the week functioning alcoholic in my younger days.
Posted by: ZiggyNJ | August 26, 2006 at 06:50 PM