re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
So instead of looking at the long faces on the crowded NJ transit train as I dash off to class, I'm shaking my shoulder some music from the The Budos Band as I write this story about alcohol and tobacco.
"There was an old Catholic clergyman, very week respected in his community. He had only two vices: alcohol and tobacco (cigarettes). He could drink and smoke with the vest of them. After a series of serious health scares, one day at church, his family and friends stormed angrily into his office.
They staged an "intervention". They told the clergyman: "we love you too much to see you destroy your health this way. We are willing to live with you having one vice and one ONLY. You have 5 minutes to decide - is it the alcohol or the cigarettes?"
The look on their faces told him they were deadly serious. He went outside for a few minutes, stared at his flask and pack of cigarettes.
He walked back into his office solemnly.
"Have you decided?" his wife asked.
"Yes," was the reply and he handed over the flask.
Moral of the story: some habits are harder to kick than others, especially if they can be legally obtained.