Alcoholics Disease
I have seen some pretty bad cases of Alcoholism in my days, my first encounter with it left a lasting impression on me as a child. I was maybe 10 years old, and my uncle had a local Barbershop in our little city in Georgia, located about 35 miles north east of Atlanta, called Canton. We used to have a Hotel in downtown, and the shop was at the left entrance of the Hotel. It was called the Hotel Barber Shop. Imagine that.
Any way there was a man that came in there one morning and asked my uncle if he had any Vitalis Hair Tonic, my uncle politely pointed to a shelf filled with all kinds of hair concoctions, the man walked over to the shelf and got a bottle of Vitalis and took the lid off and drank it right there in the shop. After he finished he said Thank you I was about to die. He paid for the tonic and out the door he went.
I asked my uncle how in the world that that stuff would keep him from dying. He laughed at me and then he explained to me the ways of an Alcoholic. I was so intrigued by the story I had been told that I took notice of people I knew who drank. Sometime they were funny, or so I thought, but most of the time they were pretty stupid.
I now have someone that I care for a great deal that reminds me of the first encounter with an Alcoholic. He is a good person, but just can’t seem to shake the demon that has him on this whirlwind of a ride with The pains of Alcoholism. When he drinks, it’s never his fault, it’s always somebody done went and did me wrong so I will just drink it away. Its like Jeckyll and Hyde. There is two people occupying one body. He thinks that he can get over on my wife and I, he’s so slick that we can’t tell if he’s had a drink.
Remember when I said most time they are stupid, well this fits to a tee with him trying to convince us he has not had a drink. He has even been one of those Bible toting drunks before telling you the way of the lord and your damnation for the life you are living, all the while he,s drunk. This used to really piss me off, that side don’t come to me anymore and it had better try to return.
I guess that I have vented enough today until I get my next dose of Alcoholism that destroys the lives of good and bad people everyday.
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