Originally Posted by
GerandTwine 
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Why did I almost always drink more than I originally planned? Because the ME that made that plan to drink just one six pack of tall ones had "left the building" by the time the contents of the fourth and fifth can was in my body. Drinking myself into a "MIND ALTERED STATE" absented ME from the known universe - until I sobered up again. By chemically stupefying myself I had completely lost the original reasoning.
So concise and simple really when you look at it like that. It seems like we just forget how twisted our reasoning becomes when drinking alcohol. It's like trying to run a race blindfolded and wondering why you come last!!