You know you're an alcoholic when...

[hadit]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Crash the car into a creek and wonder what the hell those ducks are doing floating past!!!

[Scandinavian]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you read all these posts and consider getting completely nutfaced and do something extremely gnarly just to post about it here and be the "winner"


When you (a friend, not me) go to the store to buy breakfast (that's beer and cider and a snickers ice cream bar), and realize alcohol sales hours are over, be polite and put the beer back, then say to the clerk you forgot to buy something, go back inside the store, and STEAL 12 beers. Go outside and feel like a ninja with free beer!


When you DUI, see police, run into the forest for 20+ minutes with police chasing you, finally get caught up by a really really really angry K9 (that did not bite, thank God), get taken by the police when they finally catch up, go to the drunk tank (which was not that bad after all), and finally getting a ride with a cop car back close to your house, telling them to drop you off by the store, buy more beer, take the subway to where the car is at, and drive home.

[almost free]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

...when you tell DH that you are going to a Sunday morning '12 step meeting', buying yourself a couple of hours, to sit in a parking lot a block from the house, sipping your 'decanted' vodka from a large travel coffee mug that I always took to meetings. Didn't want to pollute my system with those styrofoam cups.

...when you tell DH that you are going to your daily workout, again, to buy time to drink, as the surveillance had increased, and then to spray your neck your bangs, and the underside of your hair with water, to simulate the sweat from that workout, then to rush past, upon returning, to 'shower' from that workout, but in reality to try to buy time to sober up. It must have seemed strange that someone who worked out as hard as me, daily, just kept getting fatter.

And don't even get me started on the road trips. Running out of my 'decanted' supply earlier than I expected. Offering to go in to pay for the gas or use the restroom, ready to off the lady in front of me buying a hundred lotto tickets, praying that DH will not spot me through the window with two mega beers. The clerk, looking at me funny as I disappear into the restroom to chug one and pack the other one into a suspiciously bulging purse. Acting like nothing happened when I return, even though I am sweating from the stress and the exertion. Man, being an alcoholic is a full time job!

[Alcoholic]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

...when you threw up at your boss's brand new house...

[emc]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

when, even drinking a lot... your tolleration to AL is so huge that you don't arrive to get drunked but just low and sad...

[ATSO]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

.....when you are aware of so many humiliating, reckless,, self-debilitating, life-threatening things you've done whilst drunk, and you still continue to drink to the point of blackout whenever you get the chance :'(

[ATSO]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

K9Lover;1318781 wrote: When you plan your life around drinking. You turn down offers to socialize so you can sit at home, alone, and get drunk...then the next day you pretend you were SOOO busy the night before, and you pretend you don't have a raging hangover.

Wow.... This one hit me so hard I've welled up. Just thinking of the times I've avoided doing so many great things just so that I could get wasted has further confirmed to me that now is the time to stop drinking for good. Thank you K9Lover I hope all is well with you!!

[ATSO]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

.....when you get lost in an unfamiliar part of town, walk into a takeaway in the middle of the night and demand that someone drives you home. Thankfully a taxi driver took pity on me (and no doubt saved me from getting into a lot of trouble.

.....when a year after this episode, you get lost again, and do exactly the same damn thing to a stranger standing outside a bar. Thankfully I got home in one piece, but I don't remember what, if anything, happened - the thought still terrifies me. The fact that I carried on drinking even after this is a testament either to the grip alcohol has had on me for 7 years, or it is a testament to my utter lack of self awareness, self respect and sense of self preservation. I daresay it involves a little of both.

[Alcoholic]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you are told the day after you almost peed on your best friend's girlfriend thinking she was the toilet the night before....(my husband did that)

[XWino]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you vomit in your mouth, because you have already drank to much, but reswallow it, because you only have a limited supply of alcohol:blush::blush::blush::blush:

[Mootsbill]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you are so drunk that you go to babysit for a friend and knock on the wrong door although you've been there lots of times before ;0(
When u get sacked for being drunk in the day at work.
When you are so desperate for a drink you risk your kids lives by driving under the influence ;0(
When u hide bottles everywhere.
When u replace hubby's beer as I've drunk it all!
I could go on ;0( but yet here I am again on day 1!!'

[BradyKelly]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you wake up so hungover and wracked with withdrawals that you're too sick to make it to the corner shop for that morning fixer-upper, so you down a glass of methylated spirits just to settle your near-heart-attack withdrawals.

[Next, please]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you're sitting around with a group of old friends who are also drinkers...

And everyone is sharing their favorite Drunk story about you (me). Each trying to up the last story. And sadly, they are all true.

[kuya]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you have been lurking for so long, then finally get the COURAGE to do your first post on MWO

[philsjerk]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

How about when you get tipsy and its late and just want more and more and worse you become another person whose a real a hole..