Some people (I have read) say that as professionals, when you start blogging about how you feel at work and complaining about your co-workers online, you can be fired, especially because it becomes libel when it is in print.  But see, that's my problem.  Does that mean that if people were to talk trash to someone else, but didn't leave evidence behind of that in writing (blogging), then it's okay?  I like principles.  The principle is to NOT talk trash about anyone else to anyone else.  But in today's society, you CAN talk trash about somebody as long as you don't leave fool-proof evidence to be used when lawfully punishing the trash-talker.  The question now is not "Is it right or wrong?", it has become "It is legal or illegal?"  The law comes from ethics.  If we don't have a personal standard to hold up to and just ask if it's lawful or not, where are we headed? 

I have never liked beer.Don't like the smell.Don't like the taste.

Most of all, I hate how it makes people act like complete idiotas.

So, I never craved beer.

Ever.

Until now.

My family is a Bud Light drinker, always have been. Sometimes, they'll have the occasional Michelob, and they've tried Coors, but they are loyal, forever and always, to Bud Light.

Once, we had company over and I made a pizza for us to all eat (wow, making pizzas when I was 12 years old?! This should have told me what career path to take...too bad I didn't listen). My parents and her parents were having beers and pizza....we were SO Americanized. haha  Anywho, my sister, Caroline, and I went into our room to play and decided to eat later. About 30 minutes later, I came out, hungry and bored, because the girls were playing with Barbie dolls and I didn't particularly like doing that because I was just too old (ha, never too old to role-play, still love playing SIMS!).

I decided I would have something to eat and then go outside to play FOR REAL (which consisted of riding a scooter up and down the sidewalk in front of our apartment...yea, really having fun). The adults were talking so I just grabbed two slices of pizza (which happened to Pepperoni,,,yum) and a half cup of coke and sat down at the dining table to eat. As I was eating, I thought that the pizza tasted very strange and almost smelled like it had been out for a while, which didn't make sense because I had just made about an hour ago. So, I ate my two slices and went back for one more.

As I was reaching for one more slice, my mom yelled, "Don't eat that!!!" I stopped mid-way of grabbing the pizza, plate in one hand and my hand reached out towards the pizza pan. Intrigued, I asked her why. I was about ready to offended, anticipating that she would say something along the lines of 'They weren't good' or 'We're going to send the rest with the family when they leave'.

She continued, "We spilled a couple bottles of beer on that a while ago!!!" 

Of course, my slices happened to be the ones that had been at the brunt of the battle.

I had my first taste of beer when I was twelve years old. I was buzzed for the next 20 minutes...decided I would go outside still and ride my scooter. Not a wise decision because I was dizzy after the first lap and had to sit the rest of the time on the curb and put my head on my lap.

So why tell all this now? Because that was the beginning of my abhorrence of beer, more specifically, Bud Light. Gawd, it smelled awful. After that, I vowed never to drink beer. I mean, why drink something that smells as disgusting as beer? It was covered in a shroud of mystery and I asked everyone who claimed to like beer "Why do you like beer? How do you drink with that smell?" Those that bothered to answer answered, "Because it gives you a good feeling" or "You get used to the taste after a while", which, coincidentally, raised more questions about why you would WANT to get used to drinking something that smelled weird.

Anyway, I was really stressed out past weekend and craved, not for ice cream or chocolate or salty foods, but for a nice Corona. How did this come about? A beer hater to a beer craver, what?

About a year ago, I went to a friend's house and a friend of mine that also came convinced me to try the Corona (actually, she just didn't want the whole bottle and so wanted me to drink the other half). Just as I was about to drink it, I sniffed and the smell was slightly less pungent than the Bud Light, but nevertheless, it made me crinkle my nose. The host's son told me to wait and got a lime and stuck it in my bottle. Interesting. I sniffed again, and it almost completely blocked out the smell of the beer. Intrigued, I decided to finally give the Corona a taste.

Wow. The taste of the Corona was....I don't know how to say it, but warm on my tongue. Very smooth. The beer itself just came from the freezer (apparently, beer tastes best like this, but I didn't think anything could make beer taste better...) so it was mighty cold, but the lime and the Corona going down was just....phenomenal.

In short, Corona with a lime stuck in the neck of the bottle, converted a drinker of dessert wines to straight up beer. Go Corona. I think I should submit this and they should make a commercial with this true story for the next super-bowl.

Please chug responsibly.

-Love,

Hyunj09.