Sometimes I Just Want to Go to a Bar

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I’ll let you in on a little secret of mine: I don’t drink. Ever. The last drink I had was about twenty years ago. And it was with a friend who worked in a bar. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have had that drink.

Unlike other people who seem to place superlatives whenever it comes to talking about drinking, I quit drinking years ago not for necessity, but just because I didn’t like it. If you want more detailed information about my drinking, you can check it out here. To make a long story short, I gave up drinking and decades have passed since. And no, I don’t have a desire to start up again.

Here’s where the problem is: If you want to try to meet people these days, you kind of have to go where they are. And most of them are in bars or whatever the 2023 version of a nightclub is these days.

But if you don’t drink, you’re kind of screwed. To make it worse, I don’t even drink non-alcoholic beverages unless it is part of a meal. Sure, it’s helped me get into the best shape I’ve been in in my life, but it also makes it really hard to meet other people.

I’ve had people tell me to try meeting people at Church, but I’ve never really been a church kind of guy. It’s not that angelic chorus music from Hell starts to play when I touch foot on holy ground. I’ve just never been comfortable with churches, and I don’t…