Stupid_Responses_from_People_when_you_mention_that _you_no_longer_drink
bona fido dog-lover
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: SF Bay area, CA
Posts: 99,759
I guess I'm blessed. Hardly anyone knows I'm an alcoholic but my family and they're totally supportive of my sobriety. As to anyone else, I would just have to tell them to mind their own business...
To Thine Own Self Be True
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: So Cal
Posts: 1,946
Originally Posted by Ajax 
This one still blows my mind!
From my mother, at my hospital bed, in the Psych ward, the night after I had my last drink and tried to commit suicide:
"Well, even Mrs. Mills (a recovering alcoholic friend of hers) learned how to
have wine with lunch"
I mean, what do you do with that?????
From my mother, at my hospital bed, in the Psych ward, the night after I had my last drink and tried to commit suicide:
"Well, even Mrs. Mills (a recovering alcoholic friend of hers) learned how to
have wine with lunch"
I mean, what do you do with that?????
I don't ever get the one liners. I was such a closet drinker that my quitting drinking did not really alert anyone...
Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Baghdad
Posts: 2,822
Going on 2-1/2 years now, the skipper of the boat I crew on still offers me drinks. People I don't know, and some people I do, simply tell them that I don't drink.
If they ask why, can/have told them truthfully, "Doctors Orders"
Don't have to tell them that it's Dr. Bob.
If they ask why, can/have told them truthfully, "Doctors Orders"
Don't have to tell them that it's Dr. Bob.
Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Baghdad
Posts: 2,822
Originally Posted by dgillz
I was told "you are a lot more outgoing, engaging and personable when you are drinking".
My response: "what a coincidence, you are a lot more outgoing, engaging and personable when I am drinking too!".
My response: "what a coincidence, you are a lot more outgoing, engaging and personable when I am drinking too!".
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Blu**ed Lines...A ClockWork SR
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: AZ
Posts: 2,529
Thanks guys. This stuff helps keep me focused, in the mindset that I am not alone and prevents denial from creeping back.
Here's my Favorite...
After being wasted and rowdy at a bar; I was arrested twice in two weeks.
Girlfriend, "You can still drink... Right?"
Here's my Favorite...
After being wasted and rowdy at a bar; I was arrested twice in two weeks.
Girlfriend, "You can still drink... Right?"
Heathen
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: La La Land, USA
Posts: 2,567
Originally Posted by ElegantlyWasted
Thanks guys. This stuff helps keep me focused, in the mindset that I am not alone and prevents denial from creeping back.
Here's my Favorite...
After being wasted and rowdy at a bar; I was arrested twice in two weeks.
Girlfriend, "You can still drink... Right?"
Here's my Favorite...
After being wasted and rowdy at a bar; I was arrested twice in two weeks.
Girlfriend, "You can still drink... Right?"
And you still have said girlfriend!?
where the light is
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2,763
Originally Posted by tommyk
"I had soooo much fun last night... I can't remember a single thing after 11:00PM..."
(Fun...?
)
(Fun...?
)
Back to the topic, I visited some friends who were camping the other weekend. These guys know that I always used to drink until I blacked out. I was offered a beer and said "no thanks, still quit." The response was "WHAT? No happy medium?"
Umm...no.
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