Caipirinha is an extremely potent drink. If you haven't been to Brazil, you may think that you've already tried it at some snazzy West End bar and it wasn't really that bad. Trust me, that wasn't a caipirinha. In England, there are specific measures for shots of liquor that pubs and bars have to stick to. In Brazil, there are no such measures. Here, they don't serve caipirinhas in piffly little whiskey glasses, they serve them in what looks like a half-pint glass (sometimes bigger).
Anyways. I went out to a very cheesy gay bar on Monday night. As I surveyed the 18/19-year-old clientelle and listened to the godawful American pop music pumping out of the sound system, I thought to myself: "I'm going to need a lot more alcohol in my bloodstream to enjoy this". So, I decided to order a caipirinha. Apparently I ordered one with vodka (or so I'm informed). I drank it sort of quicklyish and started enjoying myself a bit more. I then began slurring, the room started spinning, I went out for a cigarette and felt nauseous, and finally I went downstairs and fell asleep at a table. My girlfriend had to physically accost me for my swipe card at the end of the evening(/morning?) to pay the bill. I do remember watching a bit of the drag show. She did a stage dive.
It seems that every time I have a caipirinha (or two) I end up falling asleep. That happened on Friday when I had two of them....and back in March when I had three.
Basically, I need to steer clear. I'm supposed to be going to The Week on Saturday night and falling asleep on the dancefloor is never a good look.
