Entry #151

Drunken Semantics
by JaneyV


“In vino veritas. Bollocks innit?”

“Whad’you mean?”

“I’m sayin’ that people just blurt out uncomfortable facts when they’re shitfaced - like stuff they regret…but that’s not…Truth.”

“Still clueless.”

“Let’s say just coz I’m drunk, I admitted to bonking the new temp when I was bladdered at the office party. That’s just a snapshot in time. It doesn’t tell you how meaningless it was and how desperately sorry I might be. Important facts like how deeply I love you and how shit-scared I now am, might be overshadowed by such a revelation. So even though it might be a fact – it’s not really the whole truth is it?”

“Ah - I see what you mean. It’s an aberration of truth. Like looking through the bottom of a glass that makes the bit in the middle all huge and all the bits around - um - blurry.”

“That’s exactly what I mean. Truth should be whole, don’t you think – for it to be really truthful?”

“Damn right! And because I’m currently squiffy I might tell you that I shagged the stripper at my hen party after doing 15 shots of tequila, but that in no way reflects the truth of how completely I love you and how I would never jeopardise our relationship by doing anything that stupid again.”

“Right! - So it’s just bollocks innit?”

“Absolutely. But - for our marriage’s sake -I think we’d both better give up the booze.”

“Ain’t that the truth.”