Grendel
Well-known member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2005
- Messages
- 704
- Reaction score
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- Location
- Northern Virginia
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Liberal
One night, nearly 11 years ago, I had 27 beers . . . and still wasn't where I wanted to be. Haven't drank since. That's a fairly low bottom -- getting to the point that beer doesn't work for you any more -- but that's always what I considered to be someone with a real problem, so when I got there, I quit. I grew up in an environment where beer isn't considered 'real' alcohol -- more like a soft drink for grown ups, so I never thought drinking beer, even lots of it, was all that bad. (In retrospect, it's bad if you need more than about 6 to get sufficiently buzzed -- that's just not the environment I grew up in, so I didn't see it that way until after I quit drinking).
That said, I don't care if people like to drink, including to excess, as long as they keep off the roads and don't harm anyone else. We have bars and clubs and private residences where people who like to get stupid drunk can go hang out with each other, do their thing, and not bother anyone else. That's fine. It's their life, not mine, so I don't need to worry about how they're living it. Their life is theirs, my life is mine. I'll worry about my life -- let them deal with theirs.
That said, I don't care if people like to drink, including to excess, as long as they keep off the roads and don't harm anyone else. We have bars and clubs and private residences where people who like to get stupid drunk can go hang out with each other, do their thing, and not bother anyone else. That's fine. It's their life, not mine, so I don't need to worry about how they're living it. Their life is theirs, my life is mine. I'll worry about my life -- let them deal with theirs.
