22. Hangovers Last Three Times As Long
Your mum being sick on New Year's Day in 1998 after two glasses of wine is a phenomenon you've never quite forgotten - surely she must have eaten something? She can't have been that hungover from less than a bottle of wine? Now you're coming to realise that actually, this is what drinking does to you when you get older. Your body doesn't want to play anymore. It betrays you by letting you think you're so equipped for downing eight cocktails, then really hurting you the next day by forcing you to be bed-ridden and calling for pizza like you're suffering from a fatal disease. But then you feel basically the same the next day, which is usually a Monday. And sometimes even the next day. What exactly is happening here?!