I Have Been To Work Drunk

I was in my early 20's and went to a party the night before, thinking I would just have a couple of drinks then go home. I knew I had to work early the next morning, but after the second drink, I was having so much fun that I had...

Another morning... last night?  Last night?  Right.... I remember until about 9.... 9:30, another drink and.....

Morning.

Shaking, sweating.... get up.... get to the bathroom, worship the porcelin goddess.... gah...

I have to be on call for my job meaning that anytime the phone rings I gotta be ready to rock. Yes this is annoying as it sounds but I still go out and drink anyway. One night I was just about finished with a 5th of vodka and of course...

for a nursing home whilst completely hammered on Glenmorangie (because I may have been a drunk but I still had good taste). It's too many years ago to remember how this came about - perhaps I had forgotten the date? Anyway, I got the...

My life was turned upside down when they introduced drug and alcohol testing at my work last year. It means I have to count my drinks and go to work sober which is ridiculous. The other day I thought I was fine, tested myself in the...

My boss made the bold move to schedule 18-year-old me for a shift on New Years Day at 8 AM. Well, there was no way in hell that i was going to stay sober for the first New Years I could legally drink. So I did the only logical thing and...

The call, the hunger.

Beaconing, teasing, wrapping around my senses

Insidiously filling my consciousness.

An arm's length away.

She is beaconing.

The smell, filling my mind with vapours of anticipation.

Sweet...

In early 2010 my marriage came apart in a very predictable way , but I had my job and no reason to be sober , so. . . . I drank abouta pint of Scotch on a daily basis , not to hide from the pain ( I told myself ) but to liven up a job...

So, I was four bottles of Woodchuck Amber into a six-pack (usually takes five for me to start to really feel it), on my first night off from work in two weeks, when work calls and asks if I can go in.  I think it had something to...

If there was ever a lesson to be learnt this was it.

This was happened my first summer back from university. I moved back in with the parents over the break to work and save money. I returned to work at the coffee shop that I use to...