You Can't Read Minds

Metafilter commenter grumblebee explains why not to assume you have infallible intuition about the thoughts of others. I am copying it here.
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Life is better without the company of those who are adamantly certain they have Superpower Social Skills. We all have valuable hunches, but that's all they are. Hunches. Probabilities. It's healthy to remind them of that from time to time.

The Effects of Alcohol

At the party on Saturday, K.T. handed out pudding shots. I normally avoid most alcohol, especially strong kinds, but I ate a pudding shot. I'm not sure what it had in it.

Not long after, I became perceptibly funnier for several minutes. This is the first time I have noticed this effect from alcohol.

Explanation #1: In the past I've braced myself when I sampled a drink. I would say "I just drank alcohol. Here it comes! What's going to happen?" Then I would become de-energized, distant, and withdrawn. This time I just ate the pudding and paid all my attention to the actual social environment.

Explanation #2: Going completely alcohol-free until age 29, and drinking almost none of it since that time, may have protected against the normal effects of alcohol. It is possible that my brain is now becoming acclimated to alcohol so that it will start to have the effects that other people report as a social lubricant.

Explanation #3: It was nothing. Correlation is not always causation. The same thing happens to me without alcohol.

How much is this worth investigation and experimentation? Should I begin to always pack a tin of liquor with me and take a swig of it before every social engagement? Or is that a really bad idea?