FNB3

A couple of posts I read today reminded me of some really dumb stuff I used to do and believe, that only an alcoholic would do.

When I was 23, I was having terrible blackout drinking and driving occurrences.

Alcoholic solution:

I went out and bought a motorcycle for no other reason than thinking I could control my drinking out of fear of dying in an accident.

Got to shake my head at that one.

What is the most bizarre, backwards, alcoholic thinking that you have ever had?

Ranger

When I was pounding a sixer and littering the rural roadsides with empties during my daily commute, I never once thought "man, this is really effed up". Rather, the sanity was apparent only after becoming sober.

soberviking

Think most of my thinking has been backwards now for 15+ years.

I guess along the same line as you a recent one I did last summer was I thought by running off to be a otr trucker would keep me sober. My thinking was I would be on the road all the time driving an 80,000 pound truck so I would be to scared to wanna drink. Found an easy way around that, blew a butt load of cash on school and just dropped out. But that was probably for the best at this point in time.

Seth84

Thinking everyone is essentially out to get you, even while some are, they all aren't. Laying hellfire to bridges that never needed to be burned in the first place. All in a days work for an alcoholic.

SomethingBetter

I remember telling my wife i'd quit this time, if i could just buy a new Harey Davidson and i did to, for about a week.

That was in 05, the bikes finaly paid for but i have only been sober a couple months, im glad i got the bike but i totaly lied to myself thinking i'd because of it.

Ive done simular things to quit drinking but in the end quiting was a decision that came from within wihout need of a material "prize".

OklaBH

Oh wow I had so many great ideas!

*Only carry $10 so i couldnt buy "that much" alcohol
* Have my husband hide my phone when i drank
* put wine in a styrofoam cup with lid so people would think i was drinking pop
* "fake" being sick so i could stay home and drink

If i had only realized how sick i truly was.

FrothyJay

When I relapsed after a decade of sobriety, I was only drinking mouthwash. At a certain point, I read that mouthwash is bad for you. So I switched to vodka, for my health.

FNB3

I think I've done all of these...

I use an inhaler for asthma. I used to store pills under the cap, in the mouthpiece and take them in public while pretending to do an inhalation...

WTF were we thinking??? Looks so nuts with a little distance from it....back then it seemed like a great plan...

Nirvana1

To try and hide that I drank too much the night before, I would begin drinking in the morning so that I could attempt to function. So essentially I was drinking more to try and cover up drinking.

Boleo

I used to get sooo drunk - I had to crawl up the stairs - feet first LOL!

EmeraldRose

That I could groom a dog after a 3 day whiskey binge?! That I could ride a green broke mare? That I could even put on nail polish? That I could cut my hair? I think 'most' of my thinking the past 30 years had some pretty stupid logic behind it.