You write the title, really

I like the previous post but it ran long
so this will be shorter, but still have a point.

Mom and I were driving home from church on a Sunday night
the roads were slick after a minor snow storm and the car ahead of me had come to a stop and was spinning its wheels. It was a Cadillac, ( my dad never liked Caddy's) drivin by a blond.

I was stopped anyway, so I hopped out and offered to tow her to the top of the hill ( the car) or use my bumper to PUSH her cute caddy to the place where the road flattened a bit.

She said the funniest thing when the window rolled down. I kid you not. With her best exasperated female, white wine laced, 'Gone with the Wind' voice. " there is something wrong with my car!"

Seriously, the thing wrong with the car was the driver, and if she stayed in the middle of the road she and her shiny car were in jeopardy. I told her I thought the ice was the problem ( i could barely keep my feet on it) and eliminated the rope tow option and nudged up under her perfect bumper and gave her the softest bump I could, until we were both moving and she was cresting the hill. She was seriously freaked out by now and moving at ten miles an hour, which is good if you are intoxicated and driving on ice. It is not good to stay at ten when there is another dip down and a rise in the next block, so she spun the tires again and we repeated our delicate dance and she ( i presume) got safely to her home and I am sure said something like, " I need a drink!"

Disclaimer: all stories on this blog are true ( even this one) unless they are fictional.

So YOU make up the applications ( there can be several) or "Caption this post"

alcohol, alcoholics and sobriety

may I recommend an author, Susan Powter, and her
practical and funny book "Sober and staying that way".

The same great style that she brought in "Stop the insanity"
is here as she tells her own story and offers brilliant insights that will help those who wish to quit drinking.
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a sad, grueling and in the end, hopeful look at the disease is found in another fine book
"Drinking, A Love Story". by Caroline Knapp an award winning editor and columnist, and an alcoholic. She got free from this life ending, relationship killing disease/addiction and so can you.
Please consider buying these books on Amazon for yourself or a friend, or just to enhance your understanding of what is going on in the mind of a habitual drunk.

I paid good money for a whole bookshelf full of these sort of books and it was well worth it.
It did not help the woman I was dating, but it gave me clarity when it came to the point where I needed to cut myself off from the pain, the powerlessness and the dishonesty.

You know what? .
I do not regret the past year, I learned so much, and gained in my sense of who I am and what I want for my life. Thank you, God for wisdom, and grace to go on.