The Grateful Hangover

A few weeks ago I had one, and couldn't stop telling my friend how glad I was we were friends. (Fortunately she didn't dump me for being a weird friend.)

Today I have one, and it's making me uber-patient and loving with my children who are most definitely at an insane age (18m and 3.5). In fact, these hangovers are so good that I could almost be convinced to drink too much every night in the hopes I would get one. (Who needs anti-depressants?)

I wondered: am I alone in this phenomenon?

A Google search tells me a few things:

• Mike Tyson is grateful he was asked to return for The Hangover 2
• Someone is grateful they saw the The Hangover
• Some people are grateful they don't have a hangover
• Other people are grateful for something that helped their hangover
• The Grateful Dead is good hangover music (allegedly)

But no one seems to be waxing poetic about grateful hangovers. There is a lot about a hangover pill coming onto the market, though, and I don't need to tell you that would make a LOT of hungover people grateful. The FDA has just approved it, and it will hit the market in January. Single doses will sell for $2.99, and a six-pack will cost $11.99, and it contains 1000mg of asprin and 120mg of caffeine in two effervescent tablets. *

Most excellent! But what if it lowers my abnormal level of gratitude? Then I would be most ungrateful.

* Blowfish, the hangover cure, is currently giving away free samples on their site. Just one more thing for which to be grateful.

Sarah Western Balzer

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Sarah Western Balzer is the editor of HITC Life. She grew up in Tampa, Florida, and lived in Washington, DC and New York before moving to London, where she lived for seven years. She now lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons. Her background is in the music industry, lifestyle relocation, and journalism. If you'd like to contribute to HITC Life, and work in banking or a field related to finance, please drop her a line (sarah.balzer@hereisthecity.com).