The other night, a few of us celebrated our friend Casey's birthday, with drunken Karaoke and general merriment. I was taking it easy, sticking to my classic and detoxifying vodka cranberry. I decude to go up to the birthday boy and ask him what he would like to drink. The idea of taking shots intrigue us and when the bartender asks what shot we would like Casey relates, that us being the good Irish boys that we are, we should do an Irish Car Bomb.

Now ... I am not a drinker. The taste is typically unbearable, the bloated feeling in my stomach is unfortunate, and the hangover the next day is devastating. So when the birthday boy suggested Irish Car Bombs I was like "sure, why not, how bad could it be, isn't that the shot with beer and a little bit of Bailey's". The bartender looked at me with a mix of confusion and amusement as she laughed at naivety and then proceeded to pull out the largest shot glasses I have ever seen and fills them to the top with Jameson. Ugh .... Jameson ... one of my mortal enemies, only surpassed by its partner in crime Tequila. After she had finished pouring shots, she pulls out three tall beer glasses and proceeds to fill them to the brim with Guinness. The only time I drink beer is when I am engaging in some sort of organized drinking game or watching a Wisconsin Badgers football game. Then I get told we are dropping the shots into the beer glass and chugging the whole thing.

WHAT!?!?!?! Who ever thought that that was a good idea? Suddenly a shot celebrating our Irish heritage turned into an epic journey toward personal triumph. And I'm sorry, one cannot chug Guiness - I feel as though I am drinking liquid potatoes. I did it though, I am very proud of myself, I somehow managed to down the entire glass ... and keep it down to boot.

That being said .... that was my first and now last Irish Car Bomb. Aside from the cultural insensitivity of ordering such a shot, I woke up the next morning not quite sure what happened or why my body hurt so much. So, with that said, never again. Well I say that now - give it a few months and I will probably forget what it is and doom myself to repeat my terrible mistake.