Only thing you missed out on was the burning stomach and the dry heaves. So I wouldn't say you missed out on much. 
That's very true. Guess it is only a WIN if the money was good. But when it comes to alcohol, I'm not picky. Every time someone offers me a beer and then asks what kind, I tell them it doesn't matter. My 2 favorite kinds of beer are FREE and COLD.... And it doesn't even have to be COLD.
Too true about the beer, although there are exceptions. When I was in grad school in Austin we (meaning about a hundred or so, grad students, went to The Crown and Anchor Pub, the usual happy hour joint on a Thursday afternoon. Why the grad student population, all of whom had 8:30 am sections on Friday chose Thursday night to get plastered, I have no idea). Anyway it was damn hot, as only a Texas September early evening can be and there was FREE BEER!!! The good folks from Miller had set up about ten iced kegs of Miller Clear, their answer to Zima, (Remember that? I thought not.) They were GIVING it away. Not in little sample cups but in frosty pint glasses. The sad thing was that a bunch of impoverished grad students, who were getting by on the princely sum of $841 a month, chose to poor the swill out and pay $7 a pitcher for Shiner Bock. That, my friends, is bad beer. The combination of the somewhat pathetic pleas of the Miller folks trying to get us to "try it with food" or give it "one more chance and let it linger a bit" combined with the near hysterics of a girl whose dad was a Shiner distributer would have been heartbreakig to anyone who was not as cold hearted as I am. I had trouble getting the Shiner to my mouth, I was laughing so hard. Thus proving that even destitute, professional drunks do have standards.
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