Alcohol + Testosterone + Youth is a volatile combination.
Actually, alcohol + almost anyone is potentially a volatile combination.
Alcohol takes away many of our inhibitions. For some people, that means that they laugh like an idiot.
I’ve only been drunk once, and that’s how I behaved. (Why anyone would get drunk twice eludes me completely. I was dating an alcoholic at the time, so I was joining her to see why she drank. By then, I was even more mystified.)
Other people become aggressive and obnoxious when drunk. Some become morose or depressed when drunk. And of course, as the song lyric says, “Tequila makes her clothes fall off.” “Beer: helping ugly people have since the beginning of time.”
When I worked for a certain large Texas telecom equipment company, I had a chance to fly on the corporate Gulfstream V–a very, very nice way to get around. I was told that the reason that they no longer served alcohol on the corporate jet was an embarrassing trip by several of the corporate officers to Venezula. On the way back, they got so drunk (it was a long flight) that they ended up having a food fight, and the pilot had to take away everyone’s car keys when they landed. At the time, there was talk of firing him in the morning. By morning, everyone had sobered up, and thanked the pilot for his foresight.
The ones who become aggressive and obnoxious are by far the most dangerous, and sometimes some very, very nice people become very unnice people with a little alcohol. There are times it seems like a society can have alcohol, or guns, but one that has lots of both had better teach self-discipline to the drinkers not to carry guns, or the gun owners not to drink while armed.
