What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

[Prairie Fairy]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Kradle - sweetie - we can't undo what we have done.

We can't.

What we can do it resolve - and I use the word RESOLVE on purpose - RESOLVE - to make the rest of our life stand as a direct contrast to the actions we took before.

We can *resolve* to use what what we have learned - good, bad and ugly - to help others. To believe that there is no hurt that can't be used for the benefit of someone else.

If we can't lay down our troubles - and try to find redemption - what's the point?

And I refuse to believe there is no point. I refuse to believe there is nothing to learn from what we have been through. And that *no* good can come of the pain.

Sending love to you today.

[pixie]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Kradle123;1384701 wrote: Okay this is what I'm thinking this morning- Who cares if I'm not drinking anymore? I mean really? All the drinking stuff Is still out there. It's still on the books...

Hi Kradle

YOU care that you're not drinking anymore. You know how much better it makes you feel, how it is having a positive effect on your self esteem. And that rubs off on the people around you - your kids, your family and friends. And that in turn positively affects your relationships with all of them moving forward.

I understand the negative thoughts - I think we have about the same amount of AF time - and it gets rough after the pink cloud sails away. A lot of "What's the point?" thinking for me too lately, along with the sober reality of my troubled marriage.

But I plan to stick it out, because I want to see what it's like on the other side. I keep hearing good things, and I want to see it for myself.

Try to live in the moment for now, ignore the past, and just pay attention to what's right in front of you.

[dixon]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Nursie;1270145 wrote: Way too many to count. I have journals full of stupid shit I did while drunk.
Fights, sex, flashing, driving, reckless, ravenous, ridiculous. I chose bad men and even worse friends.
I drank when I was alone with my kids. What if something happened?
I lost my dog and traipsed through the neighborhood in the snow drunk as a skunk crying and knocking on doors.
I had no shame when drunk and was collapsed by shame when sober.

I can't trust alcohol. I trust myself not to drink.

Me too ..
Thats why I am not with my kids now .They are in a refuge under the care of Child Protection Plan and they hate me to talk or seeing.
How the hell it has happened to me !!
Dix

[Prairie Fairy]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

dixon;1384766 wrote: Me too ..
Thats why I am not with my kids now .They are in a refuge under the care of Child Protection Plan and they hate me to talk or seeing.
How the hell it has happened to me !!
Dix

Oh Dix. Sending you all the love and hugs and support I can send you sweet Man. :l:h

[Bashley]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

40 years of getting away with driving drunk -worldwide.
Kids in the car - unforgivable
Disco dancing on the hood of a friend's pick up going down the highway at 60 miles per hour - he's dabbing the brakes- Nuts
Jumping out of powerboats at 70 mph to prove the skipping stone theory- it works but hurts.
Riding unknown horses bareback- broken hand and concusion
Diving into pools only 3 feet deep - serious face scrape and concusion
Firearms
Ex-wife(also drunk) pulling the trigger on my loaded 9 mm in my face - I would be dead if she'd ever listened as to how to rack a round into the chamber.
Jumped off a wall onto a steeply inclined street - 20 feet down, 2 broken heels- stupid shit.
Waking up in a sleeping bag with my sister's extremely ugly flatmate and a mouth like a camel's, taking a chug of Coke out the nearest can only to find it was a tobacco chewers spit can - throw up on aforementioned flat mate - Gross.

Not to mention all the other stuff permanently erased from the hard drive. Friends & family ashamed.
That is the word that is uppermost in my mind - Shame.
Trying to make amends at 58 but damage control is never easy; or too late.

Alcohol Free for now and trying to stay that way.
If at first you don't succeed:try, try, try again.

[Kradle123]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Hi everyone:

Feeling better today and of course so grateful for all your kind words and insights. :h

LG I'm glad I didn't drink either but jeez Louise I am eating everything in sight again...peri menopause maybe?

PF- Resolve is a huge word for me I can't quite get my mouth around it yet. I guess at this stage, my resolve is that I don't do anymore damage. I know you're right and I do believe There is a journey here, a point. My faith insists on it! I'm just...conflicted, I guess and sad. Does that make sense?

Pixie- I do care. You're absolutely right. And it does rub off. I see that in my kids, my husband... And you hit the nail on the perverbial head - I DO want to see what's on the other side of all this crap. Truly... I've thought a lot about that from the start of this and it's very motivating when I see people post back after a year or two or more. I'm really curious what I'm going to look like after a year, maybe two.

I hope by then my self hatred and shame will have dissipated somewhat.. I know I can't change it...I need to forget it...or more rightly, see it clearly, without the pain, the terrible shame, anger. You all know the drill.

Oh, I have to tell you!
Yesterday one of the twins comes to me and says that for the karaoke contest her music studio is doing she wants to perform "Beautiful' by Christine Augularie (sp) well I don't know if anyone knows this song but it's about loving yourself no matter what and so she starts sing this damn song and she really has a fantastic voice and very good vibrato for a ten year old and I am just completely floored listening to her. I totally fell apart, crying, sobbing. I had to leave the room. It was Indescribable....So she comes to find me and says, " Mom, if you fall apart like that during my performance, you can't come to see me! I'll be way embarrassed !

Of course this gets me laughing but really, out of the mouths of our babes.. Jeez Louise.

Mr. Bash- Don't know you very well but so glad to meet you. Steve McQueen has nothing on you! :l

Hugs to all,

[Fred_The_Cat]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Carved "fuck" into my chest with a pair of scissors to horrify a group of drinking buddies I didn't like too much. (The scar remains to this day)

Played chicken with a freight train which called the police on me. I earned my second (of three) underage consumption charges that night.

Wrecked my car after passing out at the wheel. I drive past the accident scene on a regular basis, and these factors of the accident still amaze me:

1. I Missed a telephone pole by inches, flew over an embankment and plowed over a stop sign, yet the damage to my car was minimal. I drove it for 2 more years and it's still on the road today.

2. I landed in someone's yard without waking them up. Damage to their property was nonexistent because of 6 inches of snow on the ground.

3. Before calling 911 in a state of panic, it occurred to me that, since my house was only 3 miles away and that my dad had a truck, he could pull me out of the yard. That decision saved me a DUI.

4. Probably the most shameful of all, my dad was himself drunk when he pulled me out at 3 am. We never, ever EVER talk about that incident.

Given the ridiculous odds of coming out of that situation unscathed, I haven't driven intoxicated since. There have been times when I've (ill-advisedly) driven on 3-4 beers, but NEVER again will I get trashed and turn the ignition switch.

[kuya]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

After consuming half a bottle of vodka I decided, at midnight, that my bedroom needed a makeover (boring so far,eh?).

My daughter had friends on a sleepover and they were playing happily in her room.

It was a hot summer's night and as I moved things around I started to get a little warm, so I thought "oh I'll just whip off my kit" ( I mean who hasn't moved furniture in the nude?).

So that no-one would came in and find naked, overweight, drunk, sweaty woman I locked the bedroom door and proceeded to try and swing my very heavy bed through 90 degrees into its new 'feng shui' position.

So i huffed and i puffed and i pulled and i shoved and it moved. The problem was I misjudged the angle and the leg jammed itself into the drywall and now I couldn't move it backwards or forwards. PLUS I had trapped myself in a corner, behind the headboard end which comes up to my chest, and I can't climb over it cos I'm too fat and exhausted and I risk doing even more damage to the wall.

I can still hear the girls playing happily, oblivious to the fact that a giant drunken manatee is now beached behind a bed head, behind a locked door, only yards from them.

Behind me is a small window, and I mean SMALL. I have no choice, I open it and somehow squeeze out (remember I am still stark bollock naked) it was NOT a pretty sight .....and I assure you I was sobering up VERY fast.

In due course I am outside, in the bushes having scraped and bruised parts of my anatomy best left unmentioned!

Why, oh why, when you are drunk can you never see the inevitable outcome of any action?!

NOW I am naked, drunk, sweating, bruised, close to tears, in my garden at 1 am and LOCKED OUT OF THE HOUSE!!

I remembered that there was some wet weather gear hanging by the back door. So in the pitch dark I had to don this stuff...spiders and all and bang on the back door until my very confused daughter let me in.

Amazingly she swallowed some cockamamie story about my letting the dog out via the french doors of my bedroom and the doors closed shut. She never queried why I had followed a dog into the garden naked and was now dressed up like a deep sea fisherman........kids eh? So trusting.
That night I slept on the couch cos I couldn't get back into my bedroom, I vowed never to drink again, I was so ashamed and I didn't .......until the next evening!

[Tipplerette]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

That one has to take the cake. I am spitting coffee through my nose. It`s just one bad decision after another, eh Kuya..

[Prairie Fairy]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Wow Kuya. That is- uh - outstanding. Thanks for the giggle. Sadly - I can see nearly all of of it. I feel like breaking into that country song "Alchohol..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3zkkLckeyM[/video]]Brad Paisley - Alcohol - YouTube

[allankay]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Kuya thanks for sharing. That is by far the most glamorous of all

At least you weren’t endangering other lives like many of us.

AK

[resrchqueen]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Damn these stories gave me the giggles this morning... Mine don't quite rank up to that level of hilarious but I don't want to get intoxicated to try and rise up lol.

[Prairie Fairy]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

Wait....I can do one better now that I think about it...don't blow coffee out your nose at this one....man, those in other continents are really getting an introduction to American Country music this way aren't they? All I can say in our defense is there is a subgenre of humorous songs in this space...and to out ridiculous is a way to score in this category... so without further ado...I give you rocking the Beer Gut...by I kid you not - the Trailer Choir....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxpcGT7kSoE[/video]]Trailer Choir - Rockin' The Beer Gut - YouTube

[Struggles 106]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

KUYA

That was a great story! It made my day

[stumpy]

What are some of the DANGEROUS things you've done while Drunk?

The most dangerous thing I ever did while DRUNK was take the keys from my husband to drive him home because he was too DRUNK to drive...Dumb, huh? I ran over a few curbs but we made it home! I think about that night often.