Funny How Your Brain Associates Things

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Eleven

Every time I smell it, I go back to New Years Eve 1983 (wasn't old enough to drink...) and the horrible New Years Day I had trying to sleep off the brutal effects of Gin.

My story in a nutshell, except Scotch, and NYE 1979.

Ruined myself for good Scotch later in life for an under-age pint of Cutty Sark.

[Sauer Grapes]

Originally Posted by icehog3

My story in a nutshell, except Scotch, and NYE 1979.

Ruined myself for good Scotch later in life for an under-age pint of Cutty Sark.

A pint of scotch? Well done.

Mine was Gin and Juice. Only took me a handful of months before I could stomach orange juice again.

[Tio Gato]

My wife spends all day on her computer, she and I were driving along one day. She asked "What's laugh out loud cheese?" I glanced over to a sign outside the local deli. The sign read LOL cheese. I had to tell her that meant Land O' Lakes.

On day I happily pulled into the lot of the new Polish Shop in town. Visions of kielbasa and peirogis filled my head. As I approached the door I saw a sign, "Mani Pedi $29". Doh!

Whenever I hear the Mama's and the Papa's I'm transported to my Mom's Ford LTD station wagon with the fake wood sides. For what seemed to be hours on a road trip my baby sister sang "Dream a little dream of me" over and over. My mom was not pleased. It was like yesterday, not 40 years ago.

[Bill86]

Originally Posted by icehog3

My story in a nutshell, except Scotch, and NYE 1979.

Ruined myself for good Scotch later in life for an under-age pint of Cutty Sark.

A pint sounds like a good amount, but admiral..... cutty?

Sorry to hear, scotch is good..

Jager - I can look at it but if I smell it......Probably have a hard time not getting sick
Goldschlager - I can smell it and look at it but cannot drink it
Fireball - The smell is vile......
Absinthe - If I smell this $hit I will seriously vomit.
After shock - Drinking a full bottle of this stuff...bad idea.
Cuervo - Same goes with the above.

I think that's about it, I've gotten sick off a BUNCH of other stuff but it doesn't turn my stomach. The time when I drank 3 120 minute IPA's in a row comes to mind. 21% each, 36 oz's total. It was probably within 5 months after I turned 21. Good times.

[awsmith4]

Just today I was at Kroger getting a few things with my son. He had to pee and after he finished I was helping him wash his hands when all of a sudden the smell of the soap took me back to when I was 15 and worked at Kroger. Its weird, I only worked there a month 15 years ago but as soon as I smelled it I was back in time.

[dannyboy]

Originally Posted by Bill86

After shock - Drinking a full bottle of this stuff...bad idea.

This is a very, very bad idea - the smell of cinnamon turned my stomach for years after that night! It was combined with lots of other stuff, but the taste of this dominated everything else.

I can still get a wave of nausea from the alcohol smell in hand sanitizer, my guess is it reminds me of the cheap vodka I used to drink?