Would the sober you hang out with the drunk you?
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Great question for thought, I needed this.
The answer= HELL no. First off, the drunk me didn't want to hang out with anyone anyway... but more importantly, the drunk me was a liar, could get extremely nasty, didn't care about anything but drinking, and personality was a flat as a board.
Nearly everyone hated the "drinking me" and I do too.
The answer= HELL no. First off, the drunk me didn't want to hang out with anyone anyway... but more importantly, the drunk me was a liar, could get extremely nasty, didn't care about anything but drinking, and personality was a flat as a board.
Nearly everyone hated the "drinking me" and I do too.
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(Reviving an old thread I found because I thought it was a great topic and interesting to reflect on).
Would I want to spend ant time with the old me?? Not if I know what's good for me!
Old drunk BB might seem okay when she's in a good mood and not TOO drunk, but she def can't be trusted, and can turn into a spiteful bitch at the drop of a hat if she doesn't get her own way. She's so full of bulls**t and she thinks the world revolves around her, her, her. She's always moaning about how hard done by she is, and most of it's her own bl**dy fault. Plus, it's painful to watch her constantly on flirt-alert. Think I'll give that meet-up a miss!
Would I want to spend ant time with the old me?? Not if I know what's good for me!
Old drunk BB might seem okay when she's in a good mood and not TOO drunk, but she def can't be trusted, and can turn into a spiteful bitch at the drop of a hat if she doesn't get her own way. She's so full of bulls**t and she thinks the world revolves around her, her, her. She's always moaning about how hard done by she is, and most of it's her own bl**dy fault. Plus, it's painful to watch her constantly on flirt-alert. Think I'll give that meet-up a miss!
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I would be happy to get together with the drunk me, and the drunk me would be happy to welcome me--at first. We'd have a good time as long as neither of us drank. But as soon as she started, she'd excuse herself. Can't have sober me dragging her down and preventing her from dozing off!
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Originally Posted by Bh28 
Definitely no way.
I'd love someone to make a clone of the drunken me so that I could have a boxing match with him and KO him (drunken me).
I'd love someone to make a clone of the drunken me so that I could have a boxing match with him and KO him (drunken me).
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Actually, I think I'd want to hang out with the drunk me. The drunk me never thought anyone cared enough to hang around for long. I'd like to show the drunk me that I would be there no matter what he's going through, if that makes sense. John
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Thanks for bumping this old thread up. Made for very interesting reading.
The sober me wouldn't want to spend any time with the drunk me. Too badly behaved.
The drunk me would have considered the sober me to be boring!
The sober me wouldn't want to spend any time with the drunk me. Too badly behaved.
The drunk me would have considered the sober me to be boring!
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Not in a million years. No one wanted to hang out with me in the end, an ignorant prejudiced bigoted idiot with delusions of grandeur. I wouldn't touch me with a forty foot pole.
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Originally Posted by Dee74
I would find drunk me indescribably sad, and drunk me would consider 2013 me an insufferable goody two shoes expletive...
so no
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I have seen the drunk me, in my very young work colleagues just starting their drinking careers. They know I do not drink, but from time to time i'll accompany the whole group, diverse ages, to a bar or event that includes booze. It's absolutely scary to see what potential peril they put themselves in. I did all the same things, rides from strangers, staying after my friends left, disappearing to the parking lot with some guy. I told them about my work with Help Save the Next Girl. I told them about my rape. I have been brutally honest about my ex husband's relapses and substantial medical problems from drinking. That drunk me will probably not hear much of it.
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Hitting a low spot in my sobriety here.
Sometimes the sober me gets a little tired of me.
At this date in time if I was drinking most everyone including myself would hate being around me.
Even after being sober for many years now as stated in the AA Big Book, "we had to let go of some old ideas."
It's just much easier to let them go, "work on them," being sober.
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Sometimes the sober me gets a little tired of me.
At this date in time if I was drinking most everyone including myself would hate being around me.
Even after being sober for many years now as stated in the AA Big Book, "we had to let go of some old ideas."
It's just much easier to let them go, "work on them," being sober.
MM
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No. I've noticed that when people drink they tell stories that are too long and jokes take too long to get to the punchline. When I was drunk I could sit for five hours in a lawn chair talking to someone. The topics would range from childhood to what concerts I've been to to Ghandi and England and global warming and car fuel economy. It wasn't that I was talking nonsense, it was just that those topics seemed incredibly interesting after the first six beers.
Thing is I never stopped at six. Around twelve is when I would really stop making sense and would start embarrassing myself, which was every night.
I can be around drinking people for short periods of time. It doesn't bother me that they are drinking. They are normies enjoying a BBQ. What bothers me is how much they talk.
Thing is I never stopped at six. Around twelve is when I would really stop making sense and would start embarrassing myself, which was every night.
I can be around drinking people for short periods of time. It doesn't bother me that they are drinking. They are normies enjoying a BBQ. What bothers me is how much they talk.
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