A Story

So, I've been meaning to blog this story but always remember at times when it's not convenient to blog. But now I remember and I'm at my computer so here ya go!

You may have heard of pregnant brain before...you get knocked up and suddenly can't remember things to save your life? I definitely have that. My memory is nothing amazing normally, but pregnancy has taken me to new levels of forgetfulness. I'm not sure if the memory loss in this story stemmed from the pregnancy or just stupidity, but I'm going to blame pregnancy.

We have a regular mailman at work who is very friendly. He often brings our mail straight into the office and we chat a bit before he goes on his merry way. He asked me a while back if I had any kids and I told him I was pregnant (I think I was only like 13 weeks at the time and definitely not showing at all). When I started to show a couple months later he stopped in and said, "Well! Either you're still pregnant or someone has been drinking a little too much beer!"

I smiled and replied, "Nope, that's definitely the baby. I've never had a drink of alcohol in my life."

"Really??" He was kind of flabbergasted. "Never? Not one taste?"

"Nope, none at all."

"Why not?"

"....uhhh..."

I could NOT for the life of me remember why I don't drink. I knew I had a really good reason. A reason that most people understand! But it was totally escaping me. I ended up saying something really awkward about the ugliness associated with alcohol and he kind of backed away like, "uhh..well, ok then."

He was completely out the door when I remembered. Religion! I have religious objections!

So, just in case our mailman reads this blog: I don't drink because it's against my religion.