You know you're an alcoholic when...

[KingPin]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

You go to the local store at 10am and as you approach the counter the assistant asks 'Do you want this one or this one sir?', left hand pointing back to the cigarettes and right hand to the liquor. You give the assistant a knowing look and reply 'Both please'.

:busted:

[KingPin]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

You stop by the supermarket after work agitated and shaking like a leaf and pay for your liquor and other groceries and the cashier is thinking 'What's wrong with him... hope it's not contagious!'.

You return to the same supermarket an hour later steady and composed and pay for the item you forgot to pick up earlier and the cashier is thinking 'Perhaps I should ask him what was wrong with his twin?'.

[KingPin]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

You're standing agitated and shaking like a leaf waiting for the pharmacist to make up the prescription that will take away your withdrawals while you home detox. You know the pharmacist can guess what's wrong with you, but you think 'Well, at least I'll never have to see him again'.

You return some time later agitated and shaking to collect the third course that your doctor has now had to prescribe you and you look at the pharmacist and think 'Should I introduce myself?'.

[jennyneric]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you come to this forum night and day night and day night and day for months because you have finally found other people that are like you and you just can't get enought.

[fennel]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

...when you want to write fan fiction for Neil Steinberg's "Drunkard"!

[Recluse]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When it's 4:30 in the morning and you're just getting started?ops!:

[RudyB]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

when your four year old asks you why you keep asking him what happened last night.
when your four year old asks you why you kept falling down on him as he pedaled his bike along the (thankfully, pretty quiet) road. when you nearly die in mortification when you see the scrapes and bruises on your son's shoulders and back that occurred when you fell onto him as he rode his bike.

oh my god, thank god i don't do that stuff anymore. what a relief to have 49 days of sobriety. may that number climb to infinity...

[mauritiusdodo]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you wake up having no idea what the end of the film was or whether your DH is speaking to you :blush:

[madmans]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

when you wake up and do not know were you are ,what time is it or how you got there , even after walking around out side for ten mins and it takes a phone call to a mate to find out what town you are in

[ExpatJock]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

The feeling of unbridled joy when, hunting around the house for something else, you serendipitously discover that bottle you stashed away several months previously and were too smashed to remember where you put it.

[sunshinetoday]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

-When you start replacing meals with AL, drop 30 pounds, and can't remember the last time you went a day without booze.
-When you are driving 102mph to work at 4 am and you get pulled over by a very pissed off highway patrol officer, who if he used a breathalyser on you, you know you would fail from AL still being in your system from last night.
-When you catch someone drinking at work, and have to let them go, then one day have a drink yourself at work to help the shakes go away.
-When you have had quite a few at an event and end up telling a public political figure sitting next to you at a tennis match what you REALLY think of him. You do not even remember, you're friend tells you!
-When you go to the movies just to have a drink in peace and quiet, and in the dark alone.

[aspman]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When even at 18months sober, you still consider someone who drinks less then a slab of beer
or a liter of sprits on a friday night a leightweight.

[choice]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you wake up and have no clue how the rest of your night went.... log on to facebook only to find the key to a black out path of awkward private messages and posts. All surprisingly witty and spelled correctly just not a good look. All sent between 3 and 3:15 am to all of your ex-boyfriends and current crushes. Not good. Especially when you include all of them and only them on the same link!!!!!!!

[aspman]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

when you have been a total drunk since before sms and facebook and even PC's were available.
but i feel your pain choice

[stellatoshine]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When your back to day one of trying not to drink...and feel a sense of grief by 11am in the morning because you know your going to miss your bottle shaped friend so much....