Drinks Well With Others Maryland cocktail shirt featuring the Bloody Mary, Orange Crush, and Black-Eyed Susan. The three drinks that run this state. A Bloody Mary for the morning. An Orange Crush for the afternoon. A Black-Eyed Susan for when it's time to get dressed up and pretend you know something about horses. Three drinks. Three occasions. All Maryland. That's not a menu. That's a personality.

Nobody drinks alone in Maryland. It's a group activity. It's a team sport. It's the reason every dock bar on the Chesapeake has a rail full of people who showed up alone and left with six new friends. You know the person who drinks well with others. You might be the person who drinks well with others. They're the one who walks into any waterfront bar in any town on any shore and somehow knows someone within ten minutes. They don't need an invitation. They just need a seat, a drink, and proximity to other humans. The rest takes care of itself.

This is for the social drinkers, the round buyers, the "just one more" crowd, and everyone who has ever closed down a dock bar with people whose last names they never learned. If you can hold a drink and hold a conversation at the same time, congratulations. You've been doing this your whole life.