This is about to happen again as your birthday is fast approaching and your officemates have reminded you about it the other day. The barbecues of your wife have always been great hits with your drinking buddies in the office who say that your wife’s cooking is the one that keeps them from getting drunk even if they indulge in the beer in the coleman wheel cooler down to the last can. Your wife has just been smiling at the flattery, telling your office mates that they should say that again when they are drunk. That is the only time she will believe them and not when they are still sober.

Your wife knows the antics of almost everybody in your drinking group as she has hosted them in all the birthday parties you have been having out in your yard. She even knows the guy in your group who in his drunken moments confesses that he has regretted very much in marrying his wife and that he wants to change her with another woman. Your wife’s response to this guy’s drunken talk is that he should not worry because she will call his wife in the morning to put poison in his coffee so he can get the other woman he wants as a ghost. Somehow that statement of your wife sobers up the guy a bit and he even starts kneeling before your wife to please forgive him, and not to call his wife as he still loves her very much.

All these funny incidents provide the fun in your barbecues all because of that coleman steel coolers that seems to be bottomless with the cans of beer. The laughter reverberates far into the night and you have to caution the drinkers to tone it down a bit, as your neighbor is a policeman who might just lock up all of you in jail for public disturbance. That leads to greater fun because now you have everybody trying to suppress his laughter – but the beer guzzling continues anyway.

The drunks in the group now turn their attention to the steel cooler, drooling and mumbling drunkenly that if not for it, they would not have finished up all the beer. You and the wife have to guide the drunks to their cars to get rid of them, hoping they reach home safe.