My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken guy swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.
So, I asked my wife, 'Do you know him?'
'Yes,' she sighed, 'He's my old boyfriend. I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober since.'
'My God!' I said 'Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?'