lol - saw a good example of the difference between normal thinking and alcoholic thinking on the weekend.
Had a weekend away with the family and in-laws at hotel run by a famous hotel chain.
Nice place, except for the food. My wife was sitting in the bar having a drink (she's not an alkie, she can have just one drink, unlike me!).
She said that some people across from her were served -- literally -- a rotten burger. Much hoopla, chefs and managers coming out, money refunded, etc. My wife said that afterward she overheard the bar staff saying how about 50 per cent of the customers complain about the food and that there was something really wrong with the kitchen.
My wife's pledge re: the hotel: "nice place to say, but we'll just never eat there. Chances are, the food will be terrible." Basically, knowing what she knows, it would be nuts to eat there, at least until she had solid knowledge that they fixed whatever was wrong in the kitchen.
In my mind, I compared that to my thinking about alcohol. I must literally have had many thousand "rotten burger" experiences -- so to speak -- after I had that first drink.
Yet, unlike my wife's view of the hotel restaurant, my view on the first drink always was: "why not? it will be different this time. This time I'm really only having the one." That, my brothers and sisters in this Fellowship, is pure insanity.
If I keep working this program, I will thankfully maintain that restoration to sanity.
Just think of all the rotten food...back then, did not know it, but had so much alcohol in me, it would surly kill any bacterial..... if it can kill a human being, it can pretty much kill anything, right?
No wonder all the alcohol bottles I see today have a black skull and cross bow.....(Pure Poison) to me. Kind of like Draino...
