St. Patrick’s Day and The 6 Circles of Hangover Hell

I don’t drink much anymore, but when I do I seem to end up on the wrong end of what has become known, in this country, as binge drinking.

Due to my seeming inability to have one or two drinks and call it good, I have learned to avoid the issue almost all together, but St. Patrick’s Day makes that hard.

St. Patrick’s Day is something I have never fully understood.  Our Americanized version of it appears to be nothing more than a holiday trumped up by breweries and greeting card companies.

While it is actually a celebration of a Saint’s life, a man taken captive and held in forced servitude.  While captive he learned the Celtic language, later escaped and studied Christianity.  He later returned to Ireland to seek converts and helped to overthrow the Druids.  March 17^th is actually the date on which he died.

I looked but could find no mention of a single drop of green beer in his history.  Not that it really bothers me, as most of our holidays have lost any resemblance to their historic origins.  Maybe it’s a good thing, because most of the holidays would be either scary or so somber as to drain any celebration out of them.

So we celebrate and we drink…a lot.

So for those of you out there who will be washing down corned beef and cabbage (actually I can think of nothing which would be worse to sick up) with pitchers of green beer, I present to you the 6 Circles of Hangover Hell.

I found this on the website for Modern Drunkard Magazine.  I had no idea such a thing existed and cannot decide if it is a bad joke or just folks celebrating bad behavior.  Either way, I wish the 6 circles did not seem so familiar or ring so true to me.  At least it reminds me of why I try to avoid this stuff.