Oh for the return of my youth! - In college, of course, there is drinking without consequence... Quarter-beer night at the hangout on Wednesday, crash sometime after closing time, and no trouble at all getting up for my 8:00 class.
And now, a night like that would lay me out flat for a whole day, maybe two.
I didn't drink in college. Honest, went to a conservative, Christian school in a dry county. Actually came to terms with alcohol not being a hinderance to my faith, as well as coming to terms with my father's alcoholism and learning my own limitations. (My compulsion is sugar, not alcohol - who needs Jack Daniels when there's Mint Chocolate Chip in the freezer).
All that is to say though, that in my younger (post college days) things were a little different. I was working a campaign in 1985, we'd hit the bar after work at 6:00 and I would drive home after 8-12 beers and be back in by 8:00 a.m. the next a.m. all fresh and happy. God protected me from my stupidity.
Now, a beer and a half will put me to sleep...(I am soooo old)