Alcohol has a strange way of changing people. After a few drinks, confidence, caution and common sense can suddenly start feeling much less important.
It is easy to believe you know your limits. It is much harder to recognize the exact moment when you have already crossed them.
Perhaps the safest thing to remember about alcohol is that feeling completely in control does not necessarily mean that you are.
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