Originally Posted by
tinyowl 
It's what everyone seems to do during their spare time.
Yes, that's what all my friends did too..especially when I was younger. It's what I did too. I am middle aged now and it was my pretty much my energy, life, health and soul sucking "hobby".
I look back over the last 20 years and wonder what my life would have become if I didn't "drink in my spare time".
There are plenty of folks of all ages who do not use their spare time to drink. You just don't know them. I didn't either. I am trying to meet them now.
If you try to stay sober around people who don't really do anything but drink in their "spare time"....
Your sobriety will SUCK..and you will be back drinking in your spare time.