If you want to make 40 you'll one day trade your three-beer-trigger for a twelve-step-program.

You really don't like yourself, do you Hootie.

I'm not a raging alcoholic though. I'm real about that.

I drink because I find drinking to be fun. I moved to Dallas and hardly drank at all. I had no friends and no reason to drink.

Drinking is purely social with me. You can believe what you want. I don't really care if people on this board consider me a drunk rapist. Whatever. Think what you want.

If I had ANY REASON IN THE WOLRD to stop drinking I would stop and never miss it. Ever. Alcoholism isn't in my family. It's purely a genetic disease.

My infatuation with alcohol is the social lubricant aspect. When I'm at the right level of drunk I'm outstanding. I'm a witty drunk. The problem is I don't have an off switch.

I'm sober, sober, sober, sober, sober...DRUNK. Like that. There is no in between.

It is what it is. I'm real about it. I'm amazingly content with my life right now.

NewChief is right...if I'm still doing this at 35...I'm probably going to be amazingly depressed.

Nah. I don't need a program.

What I probably need is actual responsibility. Cheer that I get a girl I don't hate pregnant...that would probably be my 12 step.

If ChiefsPlanet wants to chip in and give me a 12 month incentive not to drink, I'll do it. I'm thinkng $20K ought to do the trick.

For $20K, I'll prove to the entire board I'm not an alcoholic.

Right now...there is no incentive for me not to drink.

I get a lot of vagina, I have a lot of fun, and it's literally the only thing to do in Champaign.

I think it's actually the opposite. I probably think WAY too highly of myself.

Yeah. I have a friend who has a two bag trigger. He wakes up and often feels like shit. Then he scores a couple of bindles of heroin. Shoots two bags, then he feels awesome no matter how shitty he felt earlier. He loves his two bag trigger... at least he better since he gets to suck a lot of dick to score those two bags.


Once again, far be it from me to judge you as I drink a lot myself... but damn dude. There also comes a point, regardless of how much fun it is and how much you feel you can quit whenever, that your body will physically need the alcohol (it sounds like you're actually already there). Then quitting isn't a game, and it won't be easy.

well why do you think I don't do drugs, and never have?

I'd probably like them too much and I'd probably be dead before I was 30.

Yeah. Most drunks think they picked their nose or hit something that caused it to bleed when in fact, it is the alcohol.

I'll take you at your word, but the "I don't need to drink. I just do it to be social." line sounds exactly like every alcoholic I've ever encountered. I don't worry about you because I don't know you, but IMO if you keep up this lifestyle until your well into your thirties your depression will be severe enough that it will require much therapy to keep you from hanging yourself in a closet.

I don't know what to tell you guys. I understand the judgment. It's fine.

But I'm not an angry drunk. I don't beat women. I don't break into houses. I don't steal. I pay my tabs. I tip well. I show up to work every day.

...I mean. Come on. Some of you smoke cigarettes. That's awful.

I was about to say I don't judge smokers but I do. So I'm trying to be less hypocritical.

But I'm not. I am telling you.

I needed a break from Champaign.

I moved to Dallas.

I literally didn't drink or go out for 6 straight months. I worked NON-STOP and never had the desire to drink a beer. This was less than a year ago.

Ben-Wa balls.

I guess I'm an exception to the rule.

Seriously.

If there was ANY REASON for me to quit this lifestyle right now I would. And it wouldn't be hard.

I'm not just saying that. I know that. I already did it. Just to try it. And I was content. I went to Top Golf a lot and hit on the waitresses.

well now at least I understand the nose bleed that day...

One reason to quit would be your health. I had a grandfather die of liver cirrhosis because of his excessive drinking over an extended period of time. That is not something you want to go through.