The Most Excited I've Been For A Long Time.

I needed a couple items of the ramen and tuna persuasion. How very colligate of me. And thus, I began the walk down to one to the giant chain conglomerate supermarket, Tesco (I even think it might be owned by Wal-Mart). I’d like to point out that I do the majority of my shopping at my beloved English Market, but when you need toilet paper and habenero Tabasco, there are precious few places to go. So, as I walked down, a couple of guys passed me holding a case (they call them slabs here) of pints of Guinness. I thought to myself “wow they must be having a party.” As I entered the supermarket, I noticed a stack of Guinness slabs. I look over and see the magic words, reduced to clear. A can of Guinness will run around 2.25 euro. These were cases for 15 euro. This works out to 63 cents per pint. I immediately called my roommate:
Me “Get down here, they have cases of Guinness for 15 Euro.”
Charlie “Cases as in…”
Me “24, yeah”
Charlie’s phone doesn’t work correctly and he has to speak with it on speaker phone.
Sarah *muffled excitement in the background*
Charlie “I’m on my way.”
I stood there, guarding our claim to cases like a miner in the Yukon, who after eating boots all winter had just found gold. My basket full of ramen and beer, at my side like a husky, my water-proof jacket robes of fur. I watched others see this deal and descend on the beer like vultures to malted barley and yeast carrion.
Charlie got there and we grabbed three cases.
In Ireland, to use a shopping cart you pay a one Euro deposit, and you can walk the cart back home with you (probably because of the reduced reliance on cars). We ended up pushing this incredibly heavy shopping cart the 10 minute walk to my place (which took much longer) over walk ways and streets, that I would not quite call cobble stone, but for sure was not concrete and asphalt.
I returned home with childish glee. In my eyes gleamed the first cheap beer I have ever found in Ireland. Before me lay 72 cans 36 liters of shaken, warm, about to expire, glorious stout.

We played rummy, watched Heroes, and drank cheap beer. It was a good night.