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WotD: Liquid courage
What do you do when you can’t force yourself out of your comfort zone?
Well, wrongly or rightly, some people will have a glass of liquid courage to help lower their inhibitions.
Perhaps a young guy wants to ask out a pretty girl at a bar.
Yes, all girls at the bar are pretty, but some enter the bar pretty, whereas others become pretty the longer you stay there.
Anyways, that’s neither here nor there.
Liquid courage is a way to refer to alcohol when you drink it to help lower your inhibitions so you can easily get out of your comfort zone.
We have left the guy in the bar hanging, so we should get back to him.
If we leave him too long, he’ll be too drunk to do anything.
So, a guy in a bar sees a particularly pretty girl and decides to make his move.
The only problem is he is not brave enough to approach her.
That’s why he needs a class or two of liquid courage.
You see, women often underestimate how sensitive men are.
They also fail to realize how intimidating they are.
One pretty woman is fierce enough, but women tend to travel in packs.
You rarely see one alone, so separating one from the group and then asking her out can be very nerve-wracking for young men.
That’s why they need liquid courage.
You need one or two glasses to work up the courage to ask, then three or four more to overcome the embarrassment of being turned down and laughed at by all of her friends.
Now, you know why university students consume so much alcohol.
Oh, what about the guy in the bar?
He had imbibed so much liquid courage that on the way to ask her out, he forgot what he was doing and went to the bathroom instead.
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