The Seriously Bad First Date
A disturbing, cautionary tale that we pray never actually happened. Partying convention-goer gets looped and returns to hotel room with hot new “friend.” He wakes up alone, nursing the world’s very worst hangover—naked, lying in a bathtub filled with ice, and minus a kidney.
Psychological Implication:
Fatal Attraction to the nth degree, the story capitalizes on our fears of waking up alone and feeling betrayed by those we trust…not to mention being robbed of our internal organs.
Little-Known Beer Fact:
No connection—but it’s nice not to be worrying about the liver for once, huh?
The Extra “Treat”
You’ve heard plenty of variations on this one: the mouse in the soda bottle, the odd critter in the chicken bucket, etc. It always involves a small, furry animal and some packaged food product. This urban legend’s particularly frightening in that it seems imminently plausible. And, in fact, such things do occasionally happen. (Bon appetite!)
Psychological Implication:
The urban legend of consumer vulnerability.
Little-Known Beer Fact:
Let’s face it: a few beers might actually be improved with some added rodent flavor (“subtle hamster undernotes”).
