I thought the list posted on
Modern Drunkard was good, but a little too romantic/Hemingway-esque for real people. Make your best friend the perfect martini? When my best friend from high school is in town, I make sure to have a couple of sixers on ice when he get's here. That's it.
Top Twenty Drinking Milestones
1. Drink from a visible alcoholic beverage on the street
(in a city where it's illegal, of course)
2. Receive more than three bottles of booze for your birthday
(six packs of beer count as 1 bottle)
3. Own a flask and use it.
4. Sneak liquor into an event in something OTHER than a flask
(your tummy does not count)
5. Knowingly bought drinks for a minor.
6. Get a drink thrown in your face.
7. Have the bartender pour liquor from the bottle directly into your mouth
8. Gone out of your way to go to a bar because a bartender you know works there now. (Give yourself 1 extra point for every river you crossed to get there)
9. Have a bartender’s email address/home phone number.
(Folks who became bartenders after you were already friends with them
don’t count)
10. Date a bartender from a bar you frequent.
11. Nail a bartender from a bar you are visiting for the first time.
(Bonus: 2 points)
12. Attend the closing night of a bar
13. Win an award or contest for your drinking
14. Be visibly drunk enough to be ejected from a bar, sports venue or bowling alley.
15. Be visibly drunk enough to be denied entry to a bar.
16. Thrown up and kept drinking.
17. Thrown up in or on a moving car.
18. Thrown up while riding in between cars on the subway.
19. Fall down from drinking.
20. Fall asleep in public after drinking
