Drive Thru Beer Run

It's not as seedy as it sounds. It felt like it, but it's not.

I was trying out a new recipe, Buffalo Chicken Chili. It called for 6oz of beer. We don't drink beer.

I asked some friends at work. Most didn't drink beer. The ones that did either had a flavored beer that would have ruined the recipe or they forgot to bring in a can Friday.

So I was on my way home from taking Vanessa to ballet Saturday morning. I wasn't sure if grocery stores sold individual cans of beer and frankly I didn't want to get out and walk into a store to find out.

I have seen others go through drive-thrus when I have gone through for a Diet Pepsi and chips. So at 11am Vanessa and I go through a nearby drive-thru for a can of beer.

The smallest they have is 16oz. From the back Vanessa is shouting requests for M&M's. So I also ask the drive-thru dude for 2 bags of M&M's.

I pull up to pay. Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't carry cash on my like I used to. I pay for most things with a plastic card. I had a $5 but used it to buy a pop at ballet. The machine gives change in gold dollars and quarters.

The total for my beer and M&M's is $3.70. I'm not handing a drive-thru dude a card. I don't trust him. So gather $3.70 in gold dollar coins and quarters, he puts my beer in a brown paper bag and hands me the M&M's. I drive away feeling like an alkie!