A Brave New Year

Usually, I find New Year's Eve just another excuse to get drunk. I believe this because once the clock hits midnight, you drink some champagne, maybe get a kiss, and nothing really changes. This year this is not the case. Once we move into 2008 all the smokers in the bar will be forced to extinguish their cigarettes and they will have to stay out forever. The days of going home smelling like smoke are over. I was talking to my local bar's manager and asked him what he was going to do with the ashtrays. He said they would probably sit in a box in the basement until someone got motivated to throw them out. Who knows, some day they may be collectables.