I Told You - Remember

[MikePal]

I lived in a small farming village in Germany for 4 yrs.. it had 3 pubs, one on every corner. They sold bottled beer, but for the most part everyone drank the tap/draft. It was where I was introduced to "Weißbier" or wheat beer. No preservatives, fresh chilled from a keg in the basement. Best beer I've ever partaken of.

Lots of good local 'Craft Beer' here in the Ottawa Valley that have a strong following.

[Fisherman]

For some reason it was like an instant laxative for me.

[Sharon]

A "little" may be fine , but having 5 generations of alcoholics in my family tree, I'm not going to find out.

[JoePa]

I know what you mean Sharon - my father-in-law was an alcoholic - my dear wife told me how their family went through hell when she was growing up - most of the time I was in his company he was half buzzed - would talk like he had marbles in his mouth - luckily he was a small guy and couldn't do too much damage - some of the things he would do were really funny - but when he drank he got mean - I could write a book about some of the things he did - just one -

Every summer we had a family get together at a farm that had a pond - there was a diving board sticking out into the pond - he's half bussed but decides he wants to go swimming - so he gets his bathing suit on and goes down to the pond - gets on the diving board but instead of diving off the end he dives off the side where the water is real shallow - his head gets stuck in the muck and mud on the bottom - all we see are two skinny legs sticking up out of the water - we all starting running down to the pond figuring he's gonna drown - well he finally falls over and his legs go into the water - he stands up and has mud and weeds all over his head - to this day I can still remember the scene - he was a real character -