Like I've said before, I stay at hotels throughout the week. I stay in a particular hotel in Hanover Maryland pretty regularly. Many people that check in there are from around the country and have to board a flight the following morning.
I came downstairs and started talking with the front desk clerks who I know quite well and I asked them what was going on? They were talking about a person who was not allowed to board because the airline felt that he was too intoxicated. So he came to the hotel and got a room. A little while later he came back down from his room at 5 in the afternoon to catch an Uber taxi. His wakeup call was for 2:30 a.m. (OUCH)
They asked him what was going on and he replied, "I had to cancel my flight so I may as well head back to the bar."
OMG! That was me to the core!
I don't think I ever boarded an aircraft intoxicated but that would be just like me to go back to the bar when the reason I didn't make the flight to begin with was because I had too much to drink earlier.
Having said that, my last days of getting intoxicated usually found me alone in a hotel room or in my home. No way would I go to bars in the last days. I usually wore my welcome out at most of those places.
What a sad reminder! I hope that guy finds AA or some other recovery program very soon.
My disease was like a weight on my shoulder. I had to carry it around everywhere I went and it got in the way of everything that I tried to accomplish. I drank day after day, 7 days a week.
My life is so much easier now without that weight on my shoulder. Is life always a bowl of cherries? Heck no! I still have to deal with life on life's terms.
I still have to deal with people everyday and most of them seem to think that the world revolves around them. To my advantage, I have an awareness of my character defects. I also have tools that I have been given through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. What I have learned is that I can't change people but I can sure change how I react to people.
Sometimes that's still a great challenge.
Life doesn't get easier because we get sober but we get better at dealing with life, without picking up a drink one day at a time. Oh, and those problems that happen in life, sooner or later they too shall pass.
I'm so thankful for sobriety and the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.