In the boozy recesses of my pickled brain, I remember a bartender once telling me that the night before Thanksgiving is the biggest night of the year for bars. At the time, I accepted this as indisputable fact and thought nothing further of it. But today I am wondering: is this right? After about four minutes of careful internet research, I discovered the answer is: “Maybe.” And it may depend upon where you live. There’s actually a lot of good reasons for Thanksgiving Eve to be a blowout: no one works the following day, kids are home from college, everyone is bracing to spend an entire meal with their families, some people are unwinding after a shitty day of travel.

So my questions to you, fair blog readers, are these: Hittin’ the sauce tonight? Going to the neighborhood local, or do you have bigger plans? Are you going to be reunited with some old friends, or are you just looking for an excuse to get out of the house? Any Thanksgiving Day hangover horror stories? (One year, I had to excuse myself from the table to barf.)