Last week I ran into someone I know who had been on a two week drunk and had found sobriety at the bottom of one of the days he upturned. During the drunk, I'd seen him and mentioned little things to him like, "you're more easy to deal with when sober" and so forth, but of course that had no effect - saying it the right way doesn't alienate them, but saying it the right way literally has no effect.

What I found interesting was that during the drunk, he said that he operated perfectly fine under the influence of rum - and yet after the drunk, he looked at me with sober eyes and said, "I have a lot to do. I wasted a lot of time in the last 2 weeks."

Why yes. Yes he did. And that he knew that sober while he didn't know that when drunk is a point of interest.

Addiction. A wonderful recreational vehicle with built in power excuses and hot air bags that deploy at every denial.