hey Shaw -
ok then ... dang. IT's tough here because I can't 'see' you. So I try to suggest safe things ... while having to keep in mind that things might not be as they seem. But yes, years of bartending did teach me a few things about the whole hangover thng and might as well admit that detox ...is the worst hangover ever.
But it can also ...be the last.
About the boss -
When I interviewed for this job ... I was three or four days sober after a five year death binge. Shaking, yellow, black eyes, swollen ... just nasty in general. I bathed, but ... I was horrifying looking.
And had to get a job at the same time.
Literally had to sit on my hands to get through it.
So right when it's over, and we stand to leave ...
I said the the GM
(and couldn't believe I was hearing myself saying it)
"You know - sit back down ... I need to tell you something."
So she did.
And I told her.
Everything.
That I'd attempted sucide only four days before, I was a last stage alcoholic, I'd been fired from my last job ... I was going bck to AA but could nhever honestly guarantee her I'd never drink again becaus any alcoholic who says that isn't being honest....
... dood ...
... she hired me on the spot.
The moral is -
I'bve learned absolute honesty - no matter how it might hurt me ... or no matter how it might LOOK like it's going to hurt me ...
is paramount.