he called it...

HISKY DADDY

My son had a Youtube channel he called it Whisky Daddy,   he would review various whiskies.  Not exactly what I wanted him to be an expert at...he used to work in Beverage sales and marketing,  He worked for Budweiser, then an Independent seller, then  Republic  National Distributing.  So he knows a lot about spirits.  He actually kinda wanted to open his own bar, his x girlfriend was a Bartender and she knew how to mix any drink and they spoke of opening up a place....but that never happened. 

I think his channel would have done well but he screwed up lost that job with RND and then lost his girlfriend who was his camera person and editor and cheerleader.  So the channel is still up but he hasn't put any new content up in a long time.  Whiskey is not cheap so when he worked at RND he got a discount and bought damaged bottles at reduced prices to review...sometimes he would bid online for aged stuff, I know very little about spirits.  I know  it can destroy your life, if you abuse it, so when he waltzed in here today with a big bottle of Bourbon, I was not too happy,,.he made an Old Fashioned and then  took one shot later,

My father died at age 53, chronic alcoholism.  I loved him but I barely knew him and then he passed when I was 11.  His life stolen, so the very name of my son's channel was like a thorn to me, Whisky Daddy...and then he admitted to me that he named it for his grand dad, my dad, my dead dad, he said it was a tribute.   I can't ever forgive what my dad put my family through,  He was never abusive to any of us or my mom, he would just disappear for sometimes weeks...and so we were abandoned by him on and off.  He tried and quit for a while but in the end the Whiskey won.  

When he got ready to leave tonight he left the bottle, I put the bottle in my bar.   My favorite spirit is Tequila or Gin.  So it's safe with me, cause I don't trust him with it, he suffers from depression and has not been going to therapy lately, I told me we had a curse on us, I don't think he believed me,  he doesn't drink now he can't afford to, that's why I was surprised when he came in with that bottle.  Then I remembered he will be 40 this coming week.  He said  he was celebrating.  

It's hard to tell a 40 yr old what to do.   And he reminds me that just because my dad was an alcoholic doesn't mean he is or will be.  But I will sleep better knowing the bottle is with me.  I know you're asking why do I have a bar set up in my house? Well when I was redoing this house, my son and his girl friend  planned to marry and were going to live here, and he wanted a bar to store his collection of glasses, and his various bottles of spirits...so that is why I have the bar, he stocked it for me once but when all that was gone it was only the glasses sitting there.  

So they broke up didn't get married, didn't move here, and his job in the spirit industry is long ago history.  But I have a BAR!! 

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