Cutting Down On Drinking

[1234-5678 0]

So, I've been hitting the bottle pretty hard lately, even more then usual. I usually stay sober Sunday through Tuesday, and drink Wednesday through Saturday, but I have found myself drinking all week, and starting the partying nights earlier and earlier everytime.

Anyways, last night I was walking home from a little get together, and I decided to cut through a lot where they are putting up a new Wawa. Well, with my luck, I of course fall into a fucking ditch, break my right thumb and smash my left knee on a rock.

So, since I am following the old alcoholic's code of "It's a problem when you hurt someone else or yourself" I am now pretty sure I have a problem, and I am planning on taking a few weeks off from drinking. But, when all you and your friend's activities somehow revolve around alcohol, how is it possible?

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Get new friends. Try smoking. Nobody ever fell into a ditch and broke their thumb because they had too many cigarettes to smoke.

[Guest The Last Free Voice]

They did die from lung cancer... And I'd take a broken finger over dead because my lungs were filled with tar, but that's just me.

[the max 0]

You're gonna die anyway, might as well look cool before you do.

[1234-5678 0]

Get new friends. Try smoking. Nobody ever fell into a ditch and broke their thumb because they had too many cigarettes to smoke.

I already quit smoking............well except when I am at the bar.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Then pick up a fun habit, like murdering hookers.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Have you simply tried moderation? Cold turkey could backfire.

[iggymcfly 0]

Yeah, just keep yourself under 10 drinks a night and only drink on Friday and Saturday. You'll never make it through a "few weeks" if you're main form of recreation with your friends is drinking.

[1234-5678 0]

Especially since my friend is having a housewarming party this weekend...........right up the street from a bar..........that her uncle owns.............

 

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[Damaramu 0]

How about you go to the parties but don't drink. You'll still have fun and if you can't restrain yourself from having a drink then you have zero willpower and might as well go out and buy up the entire liquor store b/c you ain't quitting.

[1234-5678 0]

That's the thing, I just don't see myself having fun without alcohol, especially at parties. I wouldn't say I am a depressed person, but I'm not the happiest either, and if I sat at a party sober, I'd be fucking miserable. Maybe I should switch to weed?

 

Another story that caused me to seriously question my current lifestyle. Last weekend I jumped between a couple parties, and drank a bottle of Jameson (not a 5th, the one smaller then that) and then moved onto Bud from a keg. On my way home, after of course, one of my friends (Chief) decided it might be fun to talk shit to some cops, we are walking down the street, and out of nowhere, I turn, run up a hill and jump into a bush in somebody's front yard. Later on that same walk, I decided it might be a good idea to do a Foleyesque somersault.........on the train tracks.........onto a big pile of rocks.

 

Somewhere in that tomfoolery, I lost my glasses which I need to drive, and which I cannot replace at this time.

 

That was when I first started to second guess all the partying, and last night sealed it. One of these times I will probably seriously injure myself unless I at least attempt to change my ways.

[Damaramu 0]

That's the thing, I just don't see myself having fun without alcohol, especially at parties. I wouldn't say I am a depressed person, but I'm not the happiest either, and if I sat at a party sober, I'd be fucking miserable. Maybe I should switch to weed?

Were you going to drive with those glasses while drinking?

 

You can't have fun at a party without drinking? You can't have fun without drinking period? Man I like to drink but I just don't understand the "you can't have fun without drinking!' creed. Because I can have fun while drinking and while not drinking.

You're either way to dependent on alcohol or your life is just plain boring.

[1234-5678 0]

Probably too dependent cause my life has been anything but boring recently. Who else suggests tailgating before going to see a movie?

 

And no, I wasn't going to drive that night.

[Guest Fook]

I turn, run up a hill and jump into a bush in somebody's front yard.

 

We used to do that all the time when drunk. Then one of my friends punctured one of his balls on a sharp branch.

 

We don't jump in bushes anymore.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Who else suggests tailgating before going to see a movie?

This is genius.

[1234-5678 0]

I turn, run up a hill and jump into a bush in somebody's front yard.

 

We used to do that all the time when drunk. Then one of my friends punctured one of his balls on a sharp branch.

 

We don't jump in bushes anymore.

How exactly does one treat a punctured testicle? Antibiotics? Bandaids?

[Guest Vitamin X]

That's the thing, I just don't see myself having fun without alcohol, especially at parties. I wouldn't say I am a depressed person, but I'm not the happiest either, and if I sat at a party sober, I'd be fucking miserable. Maybe I should switch to weed?

That's exactly it.

[Damaramu 0]

Probably too dependent cause my life has been anything but boring recently. Who else suggests tailgating before going to see a movie?

 

And no, I wasn't going to drive that night.

Well then there you have it. You can still have fun without drinking. Anyone can and the people that claim they can't are to dependant on it and defending themselves.

Just go out and have fun. Hell do stupid things like you are drunk if you really want to do something wild.

[Guest Fook]

I turn, run up a hill and jump into a bush in somebody's front yard.

 

We used to do that all the time when drunk. Then one of my friends punctured one of his balls on a sharp branch.

 

We don't jump in bushes anymore.

How exactly does one treat a punctured testicle? Antibiotics? Bandaids?

I'm not exactly sure. I just know he went around for a couple of days showing everyone his scarred scrotum and his boxers that had a huge bloodstain on it.

 

And before anyone asks, I have no pics.

[Guest Retro Rob]

Get high, this way you don't feel left out since you, like your friends, will all be equally fucked up one way or another.

[1234-5678 0]

Yeah but weed just makes me tired and paranoid.

[Guest Retro Rob]

You're no fun. But then again, weed does nothing to me unless I'm already drunk, so yeah... However, I know a bunch of people who really get fucked up off of it.

[MrRant 0]

Snort Glade Air Fresheners.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Weird that, thus far, I'm the only person in this thread to say something non-smarmy or suggest that he replace one vice with another.

[A Happy Medium 0]

Cigarettes could help...but I wouldn't recommend it. You already quit.

 

Gotta make some new friends who don't get shitty every night.

 

Reminds me of a girl I went to highschool with. During school, she was the hottest piece of ass around, but then she went to Texas Tech and decided to become an alcoholic, how can I tell? She gains about twenty pounds, and has that booze face, puffy, blush on her face that even make-up can't cover up...looks like Billy Joel's drinking buddy. Everytime I see her....always drunk when I do see her with everyone at ihop or at sometimes house, taking down those cheap wine coolers and high life as if they were ginger ale. And one of my good friends still chases after her...sad bastard.

 

Moral of the story, alcohol can take away from you as easily as it gives. So cut down if you must.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

I consider myself pretty lucky that I've been able to *just* avoid slipping into dependence since about 17. I drink a lot, but never alone, never if it will stop me getting to work and gave up spirits altogether after a particularly raucous 3am entrance of my parents' house a few months ago. WINE~! is the key.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I used to drink like a fish, and I just quit, without any trouble. I'll have maybe one drink a month now. I don't even have the urge, really. Can't explain it, really. I never cared for beer, and I just got kinda tired of barfing. Some people are meant to drink, though. Since I'm a confirmed addict that changes their vice once in a while, I'll recommend you do these two things.

 

1. Switch to beer, period. No more hard liquor.

2. Smoke pot when you drink. You'll get fucked up quicker and won't pound so much beer if you keep your head.

[Damaramu 0]

Or you could go the entirely new route of *gasp* not getting fucked up. I never understood that. "I'm quitting drinking. Now I need to find a new way to get fucked up!" Try being sober and doing some things. I gurantee you that you aren't having fun b/c you're convincing yourself "I can't have fun unless I'm fucked up" It's all psychological.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Nah, I really have more fun when I'm fucked up. I was once foolish and thought sobriety was the way to go, too.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

A wise man once said "you don't need to get drunk to have a good time...but it sure helps".