yes I am 33 weeks pregnant & just titled this blog post "Beer"
why, you might ask....well just wait til you hear what me & D-man each experienced this weekend
Saturday night, I went to work at the local VFW. They occasionally have a steak dinner or fish fry & they often have bands on Saturday night. I was given the LAZIEST job ever of running the register for the supper/collecting the cover for the band.
It was fabulous. I got to sit there, playing on my phone, eating a free steak dinner, doing practically nothing for the first hour or so. After checking out a few guests, I need some 5's. So I went over to the bar to get change from the bartender (the bar & dining/band area are seperated in this building...they did that before the no smoking in bars law so that people weren't forced to be in a smoky area and eat/enjoy the entertainment)
Bartender was busy, so I was standing next to Old man Charlie. He's a gambler, a drinker. A generally very quiet man. I ask the bartender for change & while she is working on it, Charlie says to me "you know, you are still beautiful even with that pregnant belly". haha. My response..."only a month or so more & I can drink beer with you guys again".
Old man Charlie then tries to convince me that wine is perfectly safe for pregnancy & offers to purchase me a drink....Thankfully at this point, bartender gives me the 5's I need & I'm off to be lazy again.
Poor D-man that night, had to entertain himself while I was working. You would have thought it was pure torture leaving him home alone. He ended up at his cousin's house...the usual beer drinking garage :)
D-man's buddy shows up, along with his wife. Buddy's wife is preggo too, due the day after me!
I was telling D-man he was lucky I am preggo or I would have stayed out & drank with Old man Charlie & the others. D-man replies with "being pregnant doesn't seem to stop some people from drinking"
I just looked at him all confused, and he went on to share....Buddy & his wife not only showed up at beer garage to socialize, but proceeded to each drink 3-4 beers while there for a couple of hours. And Buddy's wife was not only drinking, but chain smoking the entire time.
I think I was in shock for a few minutes, D-man said nobody could muster up the words to say a single thing about it, everyone was in aww....
so the lessons I learned this weekend were this:
1. Wine is perfectly appropriate while pregnant, in any amounts, so long as old men are buying
2. While we all KNOW alcohol is bad for preggos, you can still get away with it pretty easily...the shock factor of it happening is enough to keep anyone from mouthing off to you.
All I know, is girl is lucky I wasn't there. I would have FLIPPED the EFF out on her over it!!!
