perfidy

As Charles Bukowski once wrote, "One tends not to think clearly when one has been drinking." A regrettably common manifestation of this tendency is the "drunk dial." Ever done that? Ever consumed, say, three pint glasses (pint glasses) from a gallon jug of Carlo Rossi "Paisano" wine and picked up the phone? Ever called the last person in the world you should be calling, drunk or sober? Ever regretted being born afterward? Nothing just makes the hangover experience like trying to remember who you called, what you might have said, and how much you must now suffer in consequence.

Leave it to our good friends and andipodal neighbors the Aussies to come up with a solution to this serious and potentially humiliating problem. Virgin Mobile in Australia is now letting customers black out specific numbers from their phone before going out for the night as a guard against waking up single, fired or miserable. If I could give Australia a medal, I would. Nice one, mates!