A couple of years ago, a girl I know got fired for drinking on the job. A mutual friend of ours told me what happened, and finished the story with "her parents think she has a drinking problem. Isn't that insane?"

I said that it seemed a little anxious of them to bring up something like that from that one incident.

"Well," she continued, "she also got an MIP a few months ago. And a DUI after that."

"Oh," I said. "Does she have a drinking problem?"