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Old 01-28-2016, 04:57 PM
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What "normal" drinkers dont do... Part 2

first part here:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ont-do-20.html

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Old 01-28-2016, 05:19 PM
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Thank you Dee!

This post made me shiver Stale:

Normal drinkers don't have the voice nudging at their elbows and whispering in their ears sweet lies like honey dripping from its lips.

"Go on, you have had a good week", " you've had such a long and hard day", "just a couple of drinks won't harm you, you will control eventually", " Just a thimble to make us sleep well tonight ".

Normal drinkers don't have entire and very much real conversations between the two voices in their head, like the ones Gollum has..
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Normal drinkers don't deactivate their Facebook account while drinking because they don't want to see what they wrote in the morning because they know they will not remember writing it.
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Normal drinkers don't time their arrival to coincide with the liquor store opening so it looks like they were 'just passing'...at 9am on a workday.

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Normal drinkers don't have 15 favourite ways to minimise a hangover and hide it from other people. If they ever do have the tiniest hangover they tell everyone all about it, all day long.
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I am huge green-thumb, loads of indoor plants in a tiny flat. Remember fat TVs? I kept plants on top.

Normal drinkers don't 'drunk water' over and over, destroying 3 televisions and 4 VCRs.
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Normal drinkers don't finish a bottle of wine, then add bit of water to said bottle and proceed to drink it...so as to not miss the last drops of alcohol.
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Normal drinkers don't power through their flu in a drunken stupor
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Normal drinkers don't sit here 4.5 years sober still annoyed about how at a wedding they attended over 10 years ago they closed the open bar early. And then mention this to there normal drinking spouse and they do not remember that.
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Normal drinkers don't deactivate their Facebook account while drinking because they don't want to see what they wrote in the morning because they know they will not remember writing it.
OMG This was me all the time! Or I would have to see what embarrassing rubbish I had written on there when I woke up EVERY MORNING... ughhh
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Normal drinkers don't visit relatives out of state then breeze through their dining room making sure they see plenty of bottles of wine lined up and ready to go for their weekend visit.
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If I didn't do any of those things..

Am I a normal drinker?

Hahaha..
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Normal drinkers don't order $40 of food delivery and then not eat any of it ... So as to not ruin the buzz!
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Normal drinkers don't take different routes every day to work so they can stop at a different gas station and not be recognized when they buy their booze.
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Normal drinkers do not compulsively hide their liquor, their empties, or randomly find empties or liquor in the strangest places. Unless on the last two they are normie living with an alkie.

Nirmal drinkers do not have to time their last drink with things like going to the store so as not as to be over limit and return before the WDs kick in.

Normal drinkers empty remainders from parties etc down the sink, not into their mouths.

Normal drinkers do not have to plan all day, every day around their maintenance drinking timetable.

Normal drinkers do not go into a rage or panic when they run out of booze.
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Normal drinkers do not take a cheap hotel alone for the night simply to get completely sloshed, lay in bed alone and watch bad cable TV during moments of consciousness.

Dear god. That was one of my favorites to do. Pause goes the world.
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Normal drinkers don't poop the bed for no other reason except that they're not normal drinkers.
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This is an older thread I see, but...

Normal drinkers don't have to try to hide themselves by avoiding eye contact with others because they hate themselves so much, even a smile from a stranger would be too much to bear.

I remember going to the store, mid bender, to restock, and feeling like all eyes were on me, and everyone knew just how f$&@ed up I really was on the inside...
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Normal drinkers don't spend every Monday dry heaving in the bathroom at work.
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Old 06-07-2016, 05:06 PM
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A huge thank you to whoever created this thread! I really needed to see this. If the idea that I can be a normal drinker ever pops into my head again, all I need to do is take a look at this. I relate to 95% of what you've all said! I will never be a normal drinker. Thanks for sharing! =)
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