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Rev Drucifer
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Re: Have you ever been drunk? [Re: Adolin]
#22181555 - 09/03/15 01:54 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gather around ya'll, it's old man story time! (I'm 33)
I had my first cocktail when I was about 6 or 7 years old, several of them. My mom used to give me my own cup of Fuzzy Navel's (peach schnaps and OJ, to a kid, it's really sweet orange juice) whenever she'd have friends over....which was pretty much every or every other night.
Once sophomore year started in high school, my parents would pick me up from work, drive to the store and buy whatever booze my friends and I wanted, as long as I gave my stepdad a few swigs off whatever bottle. That was the Friday night ritual for 3 out of 4 years of high school. I don't mean a bottle of vodka for us, I mean "Here's a list and $150".
Got alcohol poisoning one night off a bottle of 110 proof vodka, this nasty stuff called Fosnoff 110. That wasn't fun. I was 17 when that happened and I still had 13 years ahead of me of MUCH crazier drinking.
I moved to Ft Lauderdale, Fla when I was 20, a few months before my 21st birthday. By this point, I was a fairly shy kid who realized early on that drinking brought out this whole other character. I had been playing guitar in bands for a while at that point and I'd be frozen onstage without a few drinks first....then I could rock out and jump around, whatever.
I got a job at a little chili joint while staying with my dad until I found my own place. Even after I turned 21, I was hiding my half gallons of Captain Morgan (that I'd have the dishwasher get for me next door to the chili place) in a gym bag. My dad kicked it by accident one day and was more shocked at me hiding it than he was me drinking. I'd be getting hammered at work then coming home, smoking blunts in my pool and slamming back rum and cokes by myself.
Once I turned 21...man, the group of friends I had back then. I've always worked in restaurants and I've drank in every one of them, heavily. At a TGI Friday's, we'd have the hosts sit all our tables at once, put all their orders in then run across the street, open our tabs for the night, do shots and run back to work across the street.
My band was playing out more and I ended up taking over as the singer, whole new amount of pressure...more drinking than average at shows...a LOT of shows I don't remember.
Got a girlfriend when I was 23, she wasn't a big fan of me drinking (but was totally cool with snorting Oxy's all fuckin' day) so I laid off for about a year and a half until I got sick of her shit and ended it. THIS is when the drinking took over pretty much all of me.
I moved in with my 3 best friends that I grew up with, the same dudes who my parents used to by booze for....and we still all LOVED drinking. I hadn't seen these guys in a few years, so my first few weeks it was nonstop drinking, jamming in the basement, just having a blast.
It took two months before the first buddy moved out because he couldn't handle it anymore. He's a touring musician and he'd get home from a 3 week tour and the house would be raging with people....the endless pranks pulled in this house...
This party never ended in that house. I was there for 4.5 years and the longest I went without getting blackout drunk was 30 days and that's because I was trying REALLY hard not to drink. Aside from those 30 days, I only had 2...3 at the most, sober days a week. And those "sober days" meant I was hungover and still drunk from the night before.
Another roommate bailed and it was just my best friend, my girlfriend and I. I've known this dude since we were 11 and have rarely gone more than 2 days without talking since. We'd buy half gallons of Admiral Nelson (and ultra sweet, knock-off Captain Morgan) 3-6x a week. minimally 3, on average 5.
I went from 165lbs to 250lbs. I was fucking miserable. I remember my stepdad laughing when he saw my hands shaking one day, like I made it into the club. I had a lot of things I was running from that I believe was preventing me from moving forward in my life and the drinking was covering that stuff up.
I knew all along what I was doing to myself. Part of me WANTED to fall on my face because all my rockstar idols did at one point, or ended up dead and by the end of this, I was thinking of places to hide my body so no one would have to deal with it after I offed myself.
The last year and a half was really rough. I was living in a total drunken haze, going to work drunk, waking up and drinking right away. My girlfriend was doing her best to be supportive but I really wanted/needed to be on my own....she wouldn't go, definitely best she didn't because I probably would have done myself in out of not having to worry about her finding my body. I did a lot of dumb shit to purposefully put distance between us.
Then my best friend moved out. The drinking started cutting back, slightly....I was still drinking a lot at work though. My girlfriend and I decided to move back to Florida (this all happened just south of Boston) and even after getting here, I was still getting pretty shitfaced regularly. My buddy was a bartender and would hook us up, I'd rationalize I had a night off so I could drink.
Then my 30th birthday hit. I was already hammered when my buddy gave me some molly....and I had my first 3 day hangover after.
The Florida sun, finding a new band and focusing on music more than I ever really have, being out of New England and away from friends who can't stop drinking (my best friend is still getting hammered way too much)...the urge to drink just went away.
During those 5 years I didn't smoke as much weed as I did during high school, but when I got to Florida, I DEFINITELY rediscovered my love for it. I only drink once a month these days. I blacked out a couple weeks ago, but instead of feeling guilty about it, I was able to laugh because it's been so long since it's happened and I only don't remember the last hour of being awake. I had to rewatch an episode of Heroes to make up for hahahahha...
I smoke all day, every day....but my outlook on life, the way I carry myself, the way I appreciate other humans...it's so different than 3 years ago. I'm glad that I can still drink and not worry about binging for weeks at a time. The worst I'll do now is drink a bottle of vodka by myself and eat a shitload of food, then feel like shit for 3 days and not do it again for another month.
Drinking is definitely fun, but man....that shit does things to your brain that you just don't realize at the time. It's called a depressant for a reason, that's for sure.
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mollymadman
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Damn man, you started young. It's a good thing you cut back, it sounds like you were on the path to liver damage for sure. That house must have been a shithole hahaha... Jesus.
That was a good read.
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SARAtonin
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Re: Have you ever been drunk? [Re: mollymadman]
#22184948 - 09/03/15 08:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Drunk? Never heard of the word.
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Detached
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I think 30 is the magical age for hangovers. At least in my experience.
One of the reasons I don't drink much anymore is because of recovery time. I can't drink nearly like I used to, otherwise I'm out of commission for a few days.
That was also around the time that smoking weed started giving me terrible anxiety and panic attacks but I think that may be more of a coincidence.
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Re: Have you ever been drunk? [Re: Detached]
#22184959 - 09/03/15 08:44 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Detached said: I think 30 is the magical age for hangovers. At least in my experience.
One of the reasons I don't drink much anymore is because of recovery time. I can't drink nearly like I used to, otherwise I'm out of commission for a few days.
That was also around the time that smoking weed started giving me terrible anxiety and panic attacks but I think that may be more of a coincidence.
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Detached
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Oh you....
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Re: Have you ever been drunk? [Re: SARAtonin]
#22184981 - 09/03/15 08:47 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Drunk? Never heard of the word.
Except for that one time at band camp
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Re: Have you ever been drunk? [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#22185758 - 09/03/15 10:48 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I told you to never speak of that.
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Re: Have you ever been drunk? [Re: Detached]
#22186028 - 09/04/15 12:22 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Detached said: I think 30 is the magical age for hangovers. At least in my experience.
One of the reasons I don't drink much anymore is because of recovery time. I can't drink nearly like I used to, otherwise I'm out of commission for a few days.
That was also around the time that smoking weed started giving me terrible anxiety and panic attacks but I think that may be more of a coincidence.
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Creepiest graem Ive ever seen..
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Re: Have you ever been drunk? [Re: Detached]
#22186101 - 09/04/15 12:52 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Detached said: I think 30 is the magical age for hangovers. At least in my experience.
One of the reasons I don't drink much anymore is because of recovery time. I can't drink nearly like I used to, otherwise I'm out of commission for a few days.
That was also around the time that smoking weed started giving me terrible anxiety and panic attacks but I think that may be more of a coincidence.
I'm already a wimp about hangovers, they can easily take me out the whole next day. I kind of always have been, but they seem like they're harder for me to avoid now. I've never been the type to end up so drunk I'm puking(save for 1 or 2 times as an 18/19 year old), instead I will end up puking the whole day after.
I'm 23 though, and from what I understand 2-day hangovers are an actual thing and I'm so not looking forward to that .
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Unless you are only looking for responses from teenagers, Wouldn't it make more sense to ask if you have been drunk more than 10 thousand times?
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