Barq’s Root Beer

Mark Benjamin
Sep 1, 2018 · 1 min read

Yesterday I drank…

  1. Black coffee at breakfast.
  2. Barq’s Root Beer at lunch. Confession: until twenty seconds ago, I always thought it was Barg’s, not Barq’s. Turns out Barq’s is the only root beer brand that contains caffeine. Seems like, in general, soda ingredients used to be natural, people discovered said ingredient causes something bad, and now artificial ingredients are used. Are we healthier? Looks like we’ve just substituted heart disease for cancer. Who cares? Give me the old shit. Maybe some hipster in Brooklyn will sell it to me after making me sign a waiver.
  • Played Scrabble at Fat Cat (a bar for NYU nerds with jazz and games) with my brother, his girlfriend, and my friend Jess. I won of course. Jess hated the jazz. It was annoying jazz.
  • Played shuffleboard. Shuffleboard is great if you enjoy spending seven agonizing seconds thinking your puck is drifting perfectly to a stop in the 3-point zone only to plop off the end of the board in a morale-crushing zero-point thud. And when you finally get it right, it’s promptly knocked off and replaced by your opponent. Awesome game.

Days without booze: 10. Days without weed: 8.

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