"I'm Not Drinking" Decoy #9

Guys. This might be our most elaborate decoy yet. But I guess that happens when you are pregnant with your third child and people are catching on to our ways (fact: I have three friends who found out about this pregnancy weeks before we were telling anyone because I brought sangria to a girls' night and they put me on the spot and asked if there was actually wine in it since they've all heard about our pink sangria decoy. Needless to say, I wasn't about to lie to their faces, especially since they are all close friends whom I trust dearly). So when Super Bowl Sunday was rolling around and plans were falling into place for a family gathering, Darrell and I knew we had to come up with something good, something no one in my family would suspect. And here's what we (well, technically Darrell) came up with:

Side by side you can probably tell that one of those beers is not like the other. But in a busy house (with four little ones) no one was watching my bottle closely enough to notice that it wasn't actually dark enough to be Amberbock. Darrell bought a six-pack of Amberbock (not usually his first beer choice, but he needed something with a twist-off lid) and a six-pack of O'Douls (truthfully, O'Douls Amber would have worked better for this decoy but the grocery store didn't have it), drank three of the Amberbocks (team player, let me tell you) and refilled them with the O'Douls. With the lids twisted (mostly) securely back in place, no one was any the wiser that the contents of three of the beers had been tampered with. And I at least got to pretend like I was enjoying some beer with my football and party food.