C84 Thorny Rose

The waiter, left with no other option, cracked open a bottle of beer and took several hearty swigs. His tolerance for alcohol was rather low, and he figured that if he drank enough, he would simply pass out and forget all his troubles. As the beer went down, his cheeks flushed a deeper shade of red, and his courage swelled.

Alcohol has a way of bolstering the timid.

Before he knew it