rondfw777

I'll plead the fith. Digging up bones about drinking won't make me laugh and just look forward to tomorrow. Don't want to spoil the topic,it's just not me.

Ronnie

barb dwyer

hell hon... I was a bartender.
I've got more stories
than you have time to read them.

Thing is -
after some distance has grown
between me
and those last drinking escapades

as I look back on them now
they're not so funny.

I see
instead of the hilarity
of riding a horse through a crowded bar

I see instead
someone who
in their drunken stupor
risked the life of that horse
and the people in that bar

someone who betrayed the trust
of the owner of the horse

for a stupid prank.


So see -
I'm not seeing things
the way I did before.

COGuardsman

I'm new here, but there were plenty of things me and the "old" group of friends did that at the time we "believed" were "hilarious". Today, I look back at those times when I really cut loose with binge drinking from 1999 (high school sophomore year) until 2006 (when I joined the Army and left that life behind).

A few choice examples...

Girlfriends vomitting on a friend's unit late one night.
Urinating off the third-story level of a parking garage in Denver.
Watching one friend run naked in front of a cop car, then jumping on the windshield of said patrol car only to be arrested.
Feeding beer to a Greyhound, having it run off, get picked up by the cops, brought back to a house full of drunken teenagers who faced minor consumption of alcohol charges and one friend arrested for animal abuse.

Sure, at the time, those events were hilarious to the drunken mind. Right now, I look back at those "fun times" and think of how many years I wasted screwing life up. I can actually hardly laugh these days considering that out of a crew of twenty young men and women with their lives ahead of them me and two others managed to kick our alcoholism.

However, so goes life and if a few can be saved, eventually we might just save a few more.