tomuch2handle - you are ABSOLUTELY right! Normal people don't go to the grocery, pick up a nice bottle of chardonnay and then stick it in the back of their toolbox in the garage for safe keeping.
First Rule of Alcoholics: lie and deny
Second Rule of Alcoholics: make it somebody else's fault
Third Rule of Alcoholics: repeat rules One and Two as necessary
Next he'll be cutting holes in the ceiling... but I digress