$86,000 Hangover

Thursday, 07 October 2010 | by Pat's Picks

Not much can make you feel worse than a hangover. Except, of course, an $86,000 fine. The Star Tribune says along with their pounding heads, three college kids have to deal with the staggering fee police fined them for throwing an unauthorized kegger.  The three gentleman managed to rack up 153 infractions between themselves. The students are trying to get the fine reduced, arguing that even split three ways, it’s more than a year of tuition.

Obviously these kids didn’t go to Darmouth, where Keggy the Keg is the local mascot:

And finally, anytime we have a hangover-related story, I like to highlight the best description I’ve ever come across of what a hangover actually feels like. I read it in a Joan Acocella piece for the New Yorker several years ago. She’s quoting author Kingsley Amis as he describes what he calls a “metaphysical hangover”:

?When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. . . . You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a shit you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is.?