how the best drinking game ever was put to shame

My friend Liza moved into an apartment that sits right on University Avenue (the main road that runs past campus) a couple months ago. In the process of moving in, another friend of hers made a colorful, pretty sign that read “You Honk, We Drink.”

Every day during rush hour (which is very bad on University Avenue and tends to last most of the afternoon) the sign would go up in the window and anyone who happened to be at her apartment holding some sort of alcoholic beverage would be required to consume part of it every time someone honked from the road. Between the well-spirited and supportive college students who drove by and the angry drivers honking to show off their incessant road rage, it was a drinking game that could get you quite inebriated before rush hour ended. (i.e. a fun and successful drinking game).

One day, Liza tells me that she received a letter from her landlady telling her that she must cease and decist "You Honk, We Drink." I never personally saw the letter, but I certainly am sad and angry that it was sent. Seriously, I think a little part of me died inside.

I mean, she lives in a small apartment building right off a college campus that has decent rent rates for students. I don’t know everyone in the building, but from what I see and hear, it’s mostly all college students who probably have seen the sign in the window but are too shy to ask to join in, even though Liza and her friends are super friendly people and would probably let anyone who just wants to relax and unwind at the end of the day join in.

Besides, highly doubt putting such a sign would encourage any more honking. Before you call me a dumbass, think about this: As a classic road-rage infested individual drives by, instead of honking angrily at the person in front of them who can’t drive for the love of everything holy, they probably see the sign and think, “Oh, what a lovely afternoon for those hooligans. Oh boy do I wish I was in college again. This reminds me of that one time back in the day when….blah blah blah.”

As they continue home, they think fondly back to their days in college and remember all the happy times they had drinking with their friends in the middle of the afternoon.

Not only that, but its great advertising for the building. Since it’s mostly college students who live there anyway, they can see the sign and realize what a good time living in that complex must be. They’ll sign a lease on the spot just for a chance to hang out with whoever lives in that unit!

So you see, Liza’s landlord? You don’t have to be a fun sucker. You Honk We Drink is actually a benefit to your building, and makes old people happy and nostalgic and college students want to live there, therefore increasing your profits and karma.