Old 04-10-2011, 08:22 PM
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XABF never hid his bottles from me, full or empty.
When he lived at his mother's, though, he always hid them from her.

I remember helping him clean up, periodically he'd decide there were too many empty bottles around the house. He would wrap them in newspaper (so they wouldn't make noise), then take them to a dumpster somewhere else to get rid of them (so his mother wouldn't see them).

We would throw away 20-30 half-pint bottles of whiskey. They'd be hidden all over the basement, in his travel suitcase, in his dresser drawers, in his closet, under the seat and in the trunk in his car, behind his video collection, in his box of expired craft supplies...

This elaborate ruse to keep his mother unaware of how much he was drinking.

But never any attempt to hide it from me. The only times he lied about how much he drank, he was too drunk to remember, and would finally get flustered and frustrated and hand me the empty bottles and tell me to figure it out because he couldn't.
I guess he cared more about his mother's opinion than mine. I really was too "safe" - just another sign that my opinion didn't matter to him.
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