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The Angry Geologist's Gin and Tonic

You will need:

One bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin
One bottle of random store brand tonic
One lime

1.) Buy the gin at the liquor store. Get into a conversation about prospecting with the cashier about gold prospecting in Pennsylvania (?) after you tell her you're a geologist.

2) Buy the lime and the tonic at the grocery store.

3) Get home and start drinking immediately after you try to brush your dog's teeth.

4) Realize you have no tumblers, so mix it in a pint glass that you stole from your ex-roommate instead.

5) Pour in two fingers of gin. Cut an eighth of the lime and squeeze the juice in the glass. Pour enough tonic to fill it three quarters of the way.

6) Taste. Realize there is not enough gin. Pour more in.

7) Drink. Drink again. Drain the glass to all but about a finger left.

8) Wonder how this would taste with cranberries. Add one dried cranberry to the glass. Drink the remainder. Eat gin-soaked cranberry.

9) Wheeeeeeeee!

Comments

Sapphire is one of the few gins actually worth drinking. I've never understood people who used cheap gin for their gin and tonics.
It is really quite remarkable what a difference a good gin makes.
Trying to brush a dog's teeth would drive me to drink too ;).

And a cranberry....that's a very good plan. I've been a little off gin and tonics for awhile, but maybe the memory has faded enough and I should try again!
That sounds marvelous. I've only ever had a sip of my sister's G&T. I must remedy this.
Atta girl, go for it, I may join you in a quick G&T this side of the pond
My god a G&T sounds heavenly. That was the post-fieldwork drink all last summer.
Can't stand gin. Smells like Pine-Sol to me.

My favorite liquor store is about 3 miles away... "Gunter's Liquor". I stop in there every so often for the past 8 years.

It's owned by a very nice Vietnamese couple.
I was concerned by item #5 (just two fingers) until it was rapidly fixed in item #6 (more gin). Thank goodness for that! ;-)