It was my brothers’ birthday yesterday (they have the same birthday) (I guess my folks like to have make-a-person intercourse on the same day) (namely Valentine’s Day) and we went to the Retro Room to get peanut butter shots which is peanut butter vodka with chocolate on the rim.
I’d gotten one there a couple weeks ago and was embarrassed to be drinking it next to this Irish guy who was enjoying a normal beer. My brothers went on to order Orange Julius and Blueberry Cheesecake cocktails as if they didn’t even care what the Irish guy thought of them!
I recalled that the bartender said he could add a scorpion to any drink for $3 and I’d asked him how much to not add a scorpion and he said $5. But I decided tonight was for scorpions and not peanut butter so we all dunked scorpions in whiskey and drank them. I couldn’t swallow mine so I chewed it up and it tasted OK. For a moment, we were a rough approximation of men. Then we went to another bar and played Ms. Pac-Man.
