IMO the smartest people are the ones who can learn from the mistakes of *others*.
ER, EMT, Police will drive you
to drink, Oh you last a few years.
“Having worked in a big city ER for years I can guarantee that alcohol is a huge,huge,*huge* problem in this country.I wasn’t there long before I decided to 1) stop drinking *completely* and 2) to *always* buckle my seat belt (this was before it was the law in my state).”
-Been there, done that. My “moderate” - I thought - drinking ended me up in the ER a couple of times. I foolishly kept drinking “moderately” after being prescribed a certain medicine for high blood pressure (prb. caused by the alcohol), which one night caused horrific hallucinations of fearsome beings. Never had anything like that before (65 years old). Ever be laying in bed at night and feel someone - something - sit down on the other side of the bed? I won’t say what I saw, but it was just about the last straw. Then my daughter told me she picked me up running along the road, saying I “had to find mom.” I admitted to her I had been drinking. I have absolutely no recollection of that incident, and thought I only drank in the evening to help me get to sleep. Scared me straight. I quit cold turkey. To those of you who can enjoy a glass of wine with a meal or a cold beer on a hot day - more power to you. That was me for several years before it gradually escalated. Once again, its not for me to judge anyone else, and have no problem with moderate drinking so long as you can keep it strictly under control. I thought I was, but was only fooling myself.