Alcohol...half a fifth a day.

20 some years ago I was drinking a fifth a day of scotch, weighed in at 135 and had a physical job. You could have tapped my blood at anytime and I would have been legally drunk for over a year. I too was a functional drunk. I never passed out or had a DUI. I paid rent at 4 different bars and was at the bar typically 6 out of 7 days.

Scotch was my drink of choice and still is but a beer on occassion is still good.
At that time I was in a depression unknown to me at the time.

I decided that I needed to make a change in my life so I moved to a new area but still keeping my friends from "home" and added some new friends.
For some reason that was it for the scotch but beer took its place, 12 pack a day. Again for some reason I moved back "home" and left the beer behind.
My guess is that I was coming out of the depression.

So after about 18 months I would have a beer or two every now and again or a scotch on occassion. I had paid approx. $10,000 on scotch and another $4,000 on beer. Today I drink at home about a fifth a year and 4 cases of beer. During the racing season I drink about 6 beers per event I work. I also have about 20 drinks thru out the year when I go out to dinner.

I guess what I am trying to say is make a change in your life, something anything. You might supprise yourself.

 

Thanks for the replies fellas.

 

750ml

 

There is help available. A.A.

 

Originally a fifth of a gallon.

 

What the hell happened to my other 7ml's??

 

Never understood people's proud heavy drinking habits after puberty has completed its course.

 

:wow:And the OP is not sure whether it's a lot?!:wow:

 

Remember he said "half of a fifth" so, less than a pint. Still. every day....

 

I know its a lot...

 

a pint is 16 ounces, equivalent to the amount of alcohol in 16 shots or 16 12 oz cans of beer. that's a fuckload of alcohol to be drinking on a daily basis.

 

That's only if you drink crappy beer.

 

I just realized that myself. My bad. He should have just said "a tenth."

But seriously, I would think that's enough to be concerned.

 

Think of the money you'll save SDG, UT liquor stores have CRAZY markup.

 

Having strolled through that rut, I %100 agree...

 

You have to up your game. Winston Churchill drank more than that for 60 years. He lived to a ripe old age.

 

I read somewhere the Queen mother drank a 5th of gin a day and she lived to be 102!

There is more to life than regular visits to the liquor store. Find it.

 

Proof if you're going to be dumb, you better be tough.

I have my suspicions he was Irish.

 

If she'd stopped drinking she coulda made 110.

 

LOL these girls went (or still go if i remember correctly) to Illinois. that's how we party in champaign baby! :up: