100,000

 We just had our 100,000^th reader. Thanks folks. The number 100,000 reminds me of the “Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall” song people sing on long bus rides. (Funny, you never hear of this being sung on trains, planes or subways.) You could traverse a whole county, maybe a small state while singing that song. We sang the version with the line “take one down and pass it around”. I never understood the lyrics: like, what was the beer doing on the wall? Were there shelves? And the beer had to be warm, right, sitting on that wall? And passing around 100 bottles was incredibly unsanitary, even before Covid. And the number of beers seemed overwhelming.

But was it? Let’s do some math here. If there were typically around 45 people on a bus, 100 bottles of beer is less than 2 beers per person when one allows for spillage and breakage. And if it’s a long trip, we’re looking at one oz of beer consumed every, like, 14 miles. And I picture this beer as Coors Light or Natural Light and not the more potent micro brews. And for all we know, we might have been singing about 7 oz Little Kings bottles…

So yeah, it’s a horrible song, but, assuming the driver didn’t participate, maybe not quite as bad as you thought.