You know you're an alcoholic when...

[kuya]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

matt2d2;1420956 wrote: when u pass out in the summer in your deck chair and discover it's possible to get a sunburn on your tongue

:H:H. Too funny ......did you take photos?

[Kimberley]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

...when you have to walk past a certain local restaurant with your hands covering your face in case they 'remember' you from 'that' time.

..when you go into a slot machine hall and demand that they serve you a drink. The assistant says they don't sell alcohol there. You carry on insisting, thinking he's being an a-hole. You plead and plead and eventually get so obnoxious that eventually he chucks you out. You realise days later that they DON'T sell alcohol there.

...when you ruin your dad's 60th birthday dinner by being 3 hours late because you fell asleep on the floor of the railway station while waiting for a train. You eventually turn up and spend more time outside smoking than eating. Before long, you pass out at the table anyway.

...when you break your ankle in three places and don't realise because you just hop around drinking vodka, thinking you have a sprained ankle. Only to wake in agony and unable to move when you sober up.

...when you get the police called on you because you refuse to leave the pub.

...when your boyfriend has to go collect your phone from the pub, which you left with a guy you were chatting up before you got bored, pretended to go to the toilet and actually wandered home. And then you have to explain why this man has your phone.

...when you think it's acceptable to give a stranger a BJ in broad daylight in the beer garden so he will buy you a drink. Rinse and repeat with all his friends.

...when you have to get a taxi home because you don't know where you are, only to have the bewildered taxi driver drop you a 2-minute journey to your house. And then, you don't have the money to pay him because you left your bag at the bar.

...when you actually can't post the worst thing you did because it's even more shameful than the things already posted above.

I find this thread strangely funny, sad and validating all at once. So glad I'm sober and in recovery now. But I must never forget where I came from.

[nicelife]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you stomp into your children's school grounds, at night in your pjs and as fat as a house, demanding to the priest to cease the fireworks display that ALL the neighbourhood have attended (including children's friends and their parents), because it is upsetting your little dog!!!

[Struggles 106]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

WHEN YOU...

>Wake up in an apartment you have no recollection of ever seeing, with your right leg is bruised black and blue from knee to hip-no idea how this happened

> Find yourself standing outside a sports bar with the manager waiting for a cab he has called, and being told you had been throwing shit at the bartender???

>When you wake up and put your foot on the floor resulting in agony, cannot walk, small fracture in foot-no idea how that happened either

>When you go to a gig with your band, after the gig end up in a hotel with a stranger who has left you there. Someone pounds on the door early am and you sling open the door without a stitch of clothing on. Hotel guy is the little brother of a friend-really great

>When you pick up your most expensive guitar and see that it is severely damaged-no recollection of how that happened AGAIN

>When you sit in a car close to a bar smoking dope, drunk, with people less than half your age

>When your fingers (index and middle-right hand) always have burns from cigarettes,smoking while drunk

>WHen your daughter calls you and says DONT EVER CALL ME DRUNK LIKE THAT AGAIN

> When you go to a party at a good friend's and wake up in their guest room as they would not let you drive home. THIS IS NOT COLLEGE ANY MORE FOR GODS SAKE

>When you KNOW that there are some things you are no longer invited to because people KNOW you will be a drunken mess by the end of the evening

>When you are diagnosed with hepatitis C and KEEP ON DRINKING

JEEZZZ I'm so glad to be sober!!!

[byebyebridgetjones]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you have to check the nightclub entry stamps on your arms in order to ascertain your whereabouts the previous evening.

[maddiemadison]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Andrew_CN;1419240 wrote: Balboa - Thank you..and I don't think I would wish anyone to beat any of mine, though reading through the thread some of the stories..... The scariest one for me (looking back) was the whole incident of trying to break into my apartments window on the 23rd floor after being locked out...I still shudder at that one!

lol Moots, right, no one notices the complexion etc.

On the other hand there was a period in the past when I managed to go a few days AF and actually started looking 'less drunk'. Someone I had recently met (in other words prior to my AF days) said to me after a few days of my not drinking 'hey, you ok? you don't look yourself'...that really hit me where it hurt!

With the water bottle routine, since I couldn't easily decant sometimes since my hands often shook(depending upon the time in the morning....) I used a funnel for the bottle, but first put the bottle in a bowl, that way if any is spilled, you can still drink it from the bowl. Daren't waste it right? Actually I seem to remember I still spilled some even then on the counter...but that can be solved with a straw of course.

Reading through many of the other posts on this thread, I think that we are a creative lot when it comes to ensuring that not a drop is wasted.

Ack..someone mentioned it a few times in earlier posts..there is enough material in this thread for a book. We are all fighters and I for one am very, very ashamed of a lot that I have done under the influence, but I also try hard to keep a sense of humour and try to be optimistic...hope is a powerful thing.

Andrew agree, we have all enough stories for a book, no names, any writers out there? People need to hear the bad ugly and damn right not cool parts of AL addiction.

[byebyebridgetjones]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

maddiemadison;1421550 wrote: Andrew agree, we have all enough stories for a book, no names, any writers out there? People need to hear the bad ugly and damn right not cool parts of AL addiction.

That's actually not such a bad idea.
Maybe we should get it into the highschool curriculum as well

[maddiemadison]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

caper564;1247087 wrote: well lets see... you know your an alcoholic WHEN....

when your a member of a alcoholic chat board.. and every single persons story, no matter how awful, sounds like your own.

Miss you Caper where are you, so true, your support in the early days was great.. all the stories ring home,

[Kimberley]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Bridget, I would always check my bank statements to see where I'd been. And sometimes it STILL didn't click into place.

Maddie, I'm a writer. I'm an ex-journo (news and features) and have published a book too. Really you need to know how you would pull all of this together.

[mya]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you walk into a store to get a soda and the cashier already has your usual waiting at the coun

[K9Lover]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you leave a drunken message on your doctors answering service...begging for an emergency appointment the next day because you just CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE!

[Captainjack]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you wake up sick early morning frantically looking for your box of wine and finding it in the freezer..you try desperately to pour a glass out but cant, so you decide to defrost it in the Micro Wave but instead of putting it on for a couple of seconds you drunkenly punch in 8 minutes..8 minutes later the bladder explodes spraying said microwave and kitchen in cheap wine how lovely, god i am glad those daze are over, sober is best.

[Mootsbill]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you have such bad shakes that you drink small bottles of wine in public toilets at 9am In the morning!
When you steal vodka from a collection of bottles for Christmas at the office to cure a hangover!
When you leave wine by your bed so you have access to it early morning!
God when you right it all down it really helps with sobriety!!!

[paulywogg]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

when after you stop drinking your body and mind are taking so damn long to heal youre scared youre going crazy,and want a drink just to feel normal!

[mama bear]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

I still have days like that Pauly