My father (not my step-dad) is a recovering alcoholic, he only ever recovers from the hangovers.
But I don’t like the idea of AA meetings. I mean, I get their importance and stuff, but honestly, my question is, what do these people do with all their now spare time that USED TO BE SPENT drinking?
Do they find new hobbies?
Be downtown, bump into a friend you haven’t seen in a couple of months, “Hey Ted, what’re you doin’ down here?”
“Just left my latest AA meeting, gettin’ sober.”
“Ya stopped drinking! Good for you, so uh, what’s yer hobby now?”
“I kill people.”
Is this REALLY what we want to be doing to people? I’m not saying people who drink will kill people. I’m saying people who used to drink who suddenly need new hobbies to fill the void may start killing people. Or performing tax fraud. Or…join a race gang, IDK. I get the purpose of the meetings, just doesn’t seem normal to me to suddenly have nothing to do after you stop drinking. That’s why, if I ever became an alcoholic (a good chance if I start drinking, just ’cause of my genes from my father), I’m gonna plan this sh*t out BEFOREHAND. I think I’d make a list, a list of what hobbies I could take up after I stop drinking.
Smoking crack would be a good one, right at the top of the list.
Neutering my dogs.
Neutering OTHER PEOPLE’S dogs.
Or you could throw a big party of some kind I ’spose. Ya know, celebrate, be happy that you accomplished something so grand. Invite a bunch of people over, order some appetizers, and then have a drink to celebrate, one last drink before you’re totally sober.
You’d wake up the next morning in Montana, with no pants, on a golf course, and holding a pinata.
That’s a new hobby for you and your friends, the fun game of, “WHAT THE F*CK DID I DO LAST NIGHT AFTER I GOT HAMMERED?!”
M@RK
