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I would consider myself a social drinker. I only drink when I am with cool people and the conversation and hijinx can flow. I am certainly not a teetotaler, but I can have liquor and beer sitting in my cupboard or refrigerator for months or years untouched.
I saw a report at CNN.com yesterday by Sanjay Gupta, MD on alcoholism. Some guy had ten drinks a day for thirty years before needing a liver transplant. The operating surgeons said that his original liver only had two weeks left in it. According to the doc, four drinks a day makes you an alcoholic. I’d provide a link but the streaming video story has already dropped off the face of the earth after it went out for a pack of smokes.
Anyway, I am a paranoid and very responsible drinker. When I have more than a few, I leave my car where it is, or if I am drinking at a friend’s place, I stay the night. The next morning, I go home, or take the magical ghetto tube to pick up my vehicle.
This responsible thinking unfortunately alerts people to when I drank. Why are you at home with no vehicle? Why did you stay the night somewhere? I look like some type of raunchy drunk.
There are a lot of people out there that slug a few back and then drive home. You never know when they drank unless you saw them in person. They probably do it a lot but are furtive about it. Nothing to alert the passerby that they have drank. My responsible behavior does the opposite. So, in turn, I look like the bum while they look angelic.