Just as an example, or maybe a warning, I worked with a young man whose parents were both fellow union members. He was headed on the straight track toward membership, and it's not easy to get in.
I worked in the entertainment business where drinking was tolerated, if not encouraged.
I drank with his parents. I drank with him at the bar we all drank at. The bar even gave us fifty cents off a beer.
This is hard to write.
But when they found him in his parents recreation room he was dead.
At the autopsy, they found he had literally drank himself to death.
His BAL was .423.
He was twenty three years old.
There were three other co-workers who did the same, only on the installment plan. It took years, but alcohol killed them.
One of them, his skin was actually greenish yellow. Still he drank.
That's all I can write.
If you're concerned about your drinking, stop.
It's a matter of life and death and I was on the same route.
I made it out alive.
RIP my friends.