Posted by AuntieMel on April 11, 2005, at 12:16:34
In reply to Re: Silence banished!! (poss. TRIGGER) » just so sad, posted by partlycloudy on April 11, 2005, at 7:35:51
"If I can keep it hidden and do it in secrecy, who cares? It was not a healthy line of thinking. I recognized it as such at the time. My family, for one, would not be pleased to have me Dialing While Drunk again. I don't like waking up and wondering who I spoke with, what I said, how many conversations will I have to fake my way through before the penny drops and I remember that I'd had that conversation before... you have to be very clever to keep your tracks covered if you consciously decide to drink. Not that it fools anyone."
Boy did I see myself in that one! I did that a lot when I was traveling. Nothing like getting a few (ok, more than a few) in you to make you want to call home. Or call you sister. Or - get up the courage to call your <insert foul word here> father.
Or telling the people travelling with you how you *might* have been instrumental in getting the last boss fired.
Then keeping quiet for the next day or so waiting for someone to say something that *might* jog your memory so you can laugh and tell them you have a bad habit of making up "stuff" when you're drinking and not to believe a word out of your mouth.
A friend (drinking bud) used to decide when he was snockered that he just *had* to call his mum in England. No one could convince him that it was 3AM over there and a bad idea. It usually took several wrong numbers before he gave up, but at least he never did have to explain it to mum.
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