God, I miss being young...

So, today Sarah and I were running errands around downtown and as we're driving around I'm like what the hell is with all these people on one of the main streets here in Madison (Gorham/University for those who are familiar). At first I thought that that's just how Madison is on a nice sunny day after about 6 months of cold overcast weather. We go to the Capitol Centre Market to redeem a MoochoMoocho thing and get some groceries and literally thousands of college kids are drinking everywhere. I thought it was just from some "Crazy Legs" race they have around here this weekend, but I asked one of the people working at the store (since cases of beer were flying off the shelves) what was going on and apparently today is the Mifflin Street Block Party. Basically, this is the spring version of Halloween in Madison and I was completely oblivious. This is the latest in a staggering sequence of events that has lead to me realizing on a semi-continuous basis that I am getting old (at least relatively speaking, living in a college environment does that for you).

I looked into it and the event has it's own wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifflin_Street_Block_Party) and originally started in 1969 as a protest to the Vietnam war. Interesting stuff. Anyways, when you have that many kids drinking all day, hilarity ensues. My personal favorite t-shirt that was being worn was "Drink me how to teachy" (a mock on the ever popular "Teach Me How To Bucky" shirt). I want one so bad now, but not quite as badly as I want to be young again. It was nice in undergrad when you could just do whatever you felt like and not have to worry about it.

One of the best parts was this girl exclaiming loudly about how it was so bad that they already ran out of beer so early (this was approx 1PM, likely an impressive showing depending on how much they had put away already). Sarah turns to me and is like "that IS pretty bad..." and this drunk kid behind us is like "it's not that bad..." all defensively like who could ever pass judgment about re-loading with 4 cases of beer at 1PM on an idle Saturday. Oh to be a college kid again...I do somehow miss that logic...

Oh well - at least now I'm drinking the beers that I'm reviewing on this site rather than pounding back Keystone Light or Milwaukee's Best (why has someone not sued them for false advertising by now?). Take a minute to think about what you drank in college and what you drink now - hopefully you're a step up and able to look back and smile about some of the stupid stuff you did when you were in college.

Cheers,

Hurls