Post-Pub Analysis

I've posted before that there are many advantages to not drinking and still going to the pub - for example, I don't have to worry about hangovers, hastily regretted kebabs, making a drunken fool of myself, unexpected nausea and a whole collection of other mishaps.

However, there are also some downsides. I've blogged before about the perils of the diet coke evening which leaves me at home, late at night having consumed far too much caffeine, wide awake for hours.

The other annoyance is how things stick in your mind. Comments made by people quite late in the evening, when they are sufficiently inebriated to make random comments, and you're never quite sure how much notice to take of them. Without the benefit of an alcoholic haze to lose them in, they end up bouncing round your head for a good while after they've been said, and you spend far too much time wondering about the consequences and other things.

Suffice to say, while I had a very enjoyable evening I've had a very contemplative journey home, and am still mulling things over which will no doubt last a couple of hours more too.