Trampism & alcoholism
I knew a tramp once who'd regularly (that is, every day) drink the best part of a bottle of vodka, then go and put his kids to bed. After a night of deeply troubled sleep, he'd get up and go to work, until that is, he was 'made redundant' after the booze made him take loads of time off work, due to his evening habit's propensity to make him 'stressed' and 'depressed'. After 4 months' off, and his drinking continued, he found that his only outlet was posting stuff to the web. His wife hated him, his children were distant from him, as he to them. After several months of this, he found a pattern into which he could fit. It was called "functional alcoholism". He was a tramp, or what we like to call a tramp, but his missus washed his clothes for him, so he didn't smell.

O hang, on...

Shit.
( petuniadb, Sun 5 Jul 2009, 20:04, 1 reply)

it's only functional
when you keep the job and maintain your relationships.

Thanks for the cautionary tale though - I've had to cut back after missing work recently due to waking up pissed on a Monday morning.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 9:51, closed)