A drink that makes you tipsy In martinis and tonics, it goes Not gin, rum, or whiskey Because it comes old potatoes

A glass in the lab, or steel on the go I hold what you need more than I show.

What is always coming but never arrives?

I froze - the evil thing sniffed but smelled like waste. One wrong move would surely seal my fate. It licked its lips as if my fear it could ....., My mind whirled, I was in such a .....

Row right? Row left? Could you pick one?