(TM) 229. Getting a certain someone drunk ...
If you could get anyone drunk, who would it be and what would you do?
Interesting phrase, getting someone drunk. It implies that whoever's getting boozed up has no choice, which we all know isn't true. Even during the most raucous military initiation parties and promotion celebrations I ever attended-- and I've attended more than I want to admit to --the person headed for a power drunk and a nasty morning after always could have said no. His or her comrades just provided the opportunity.
... okay, the opportunity, most of the alcohol and a massive load of peer pressure. Still.
These days those with any inclination to get hammered don't need much in the way of persuasion, so getting someone drunk is hardly needed. But there are always exceptions. If I could provide a consequence-free method and opportunity to any one person in the fleet, it would be Laura Roslin. Not to lower her inhibitions (I respect her too much for that), nor to provide escape from the realities of her position and her illness.
No, I'd get Laura drunk simply because she deserves the chance to lash out at me the way I lashed out at her the last time I was under the influence ... whether she takes that chance or not.
And if she declines, maybe I could get her to laugh again like she did on New Caprica ...
Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 217
Interesting phrase, getting someone drunk. It implies that whoever's getting boozed up has no choice, which we all know isn't true. Even during the most raucous military initiation parties and promotion celebrations I ever attended-- and I've attended more than I want to admit to --the person headed for a power drunk and a nasty morning after always could have said no. His or her comrades just provided the opportunity.
... okay, the opportunity, most of the alcohol and a massive load of peer pressure. Still.
These days those with any inclination to get hammered don't need much in the way of persuasion, so getting someone drunk is hardly needed. But there are always exceptions. If I could provide a consequence-free method and opportunity to any one person in the fleet, it would be Laura Roslin. Not to lower her inhibitions (I respect her too much for that), nor to provide escape from the realities of her position and her illness.
No, I'd get Laura drunk simply because she deserves the chance to lash out at me the way I lashed out at her the last time I was under the influence ... whether she takes that chance or not.
And if she declines, maybe I could get her to laugh again like she did on New Caprica ...
Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 217