I don't think I crave liquor but, I definitely like a nice buzz.

After a long day, I occasionally look forward to a bourbon & Coke, bourbon & water or a bourbon on the rocks. After a REALLLY long day, I look forward to a dry martini, a dirty martini and/or a double shot of vodka on the rocks. And sometimes, after a truly focked day, I would rather drink than eat (this isn't too often).

I've never been drunk and started a fight. But, I have been known to fall asleep...zzzzz.

Generally, when I get to the farm on Fridays, first I change into my grubbies and then I mix a 'big-gulp' bourbon and coke before I climb in the buggy and make the rounds (usually takes an hour to cover the whole place). But, I never carry the jug with me.

I don't DUI on public roads anymore (in the dark ages, it used to be pretty much OK here in Texas). Period.

...and no, I've never been arrested either.

Only once have I gotten so drunk out there that I lost my pickup in a ditch...in my defense, the ditch was full of weeds that were the same height as the surrounding grass and damned near invisible. Most importantly (to me), I didn't spill my beverage.

I've never gone to work drunk....well, at least not where I'm working now.

Comments? Advice?

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Your fine. I gotta ask though, what's a "dirty Martini," one that uses bad language or stays out all night long?

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I will bet there are any number of on-line questionaire sites intended to answer your question.

Craving alcohol seems like a pretty big indicator.

Steve

If you really enjoy it and can restrain yourself until the requisite time and then savor every drop you are not an alcoholic but a gentleman.

If you don't enjoy it and simply use it as a means to salve the fetid pus of your vanities and discolor your stale violet fancies,anxiously awaiting sweet oblivion to drown your sorrows and take pleasure in musing over your regrets,then you may consider yourself an Alky.

Otherwise,CHEERS!!!!!!!

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I was gonna say that!

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Gin or Vodka with a tiny splash of the olive juice mixed in. Yum.

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That's easy for you to say

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So would a twelve pack a day be a bad indicator?

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I would say no, you aren't an alcoholic, because you have the objectivity to actually ask yourself that question. You are concerned enough about your behavior to reflect on it rationally. And I say that as someone who flirted with alcohol dependency about 10 years ago.

I didn't reach for a drink when I woke up, nor did I keep a bottle in the desk drawer at work. But I was miserable at work and started off by drinking a glass of wine when I got home, "just to take the edge off". That glass became two, then three, then the whole bottle eventually. My wife helped me realized I was drinking too much, and for the wrong reasons, and encouraged me to make the changes I need to make in my life so that I didn't have to compensate for it with alcohol.

Its 10 years later and I'm still very happy to drink socially at a party or have a nice bottle of wine with a nice meal. But that's it. Its a huge step, being able to ask yourself that question. I think the next question you need to ask yourself why you crave the drink, and if there is anything you need to change in your life to remove the need.

I think there is a lot of truth here.

The person you should ask about drinking is your primary physician--his opinion is the one that matters the most. Now, here in the buckle of the Bible Belt, one may not be able to get an objective answer, but you probably know whether or not your physician is Baptist

And as long as you're not drumming your fingers on the table waiting for both hands of the clock to hit 12, you're probably OK.

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You didn't list the exceptions to this rule: Bloody Marys (and Marias), Mimosas, Kirs, Kir Royal's, Bellini's, Pimm's CuppsChampaigne in general and Red Eyes


But yeah, since he said he was a bourbon drinker, you are technically right

I say it is always noon somewhere!

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That IS dirty! I hate olives. Make mine a clean martini, will you?

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Not for a guy with a bunch of Ninja monkeys plotting his demise.

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles