Disappointment

[R. Richard]

OK, it's just past Christmas. I have lived in a lot of really crummy places and there is a nice park not too far from where I live. I try to walk through the park at least once a day. Since it is just past Christmas and it is cold, people are out walking their dogs. The dogs are wearing brand new Christmas gift blankets in red, blue, green, yellow, purple, black and even tartan. It is really a disappointment to realize that there is a dog out there who is dressed better than I am. Comment? [No, I am not going to wear a diog blanket, not even a coat of many colors.]

 

[sirhugs]

to me the real disappointment is a society which not only tolerates but encourages people that spoil pets this way- but I feel pity that their inner life is so empty that they need to strive so hard to bring jooy into their misery.

Inner peace is worth so much more than outward appearances.

 

[adetaildiva]

OK, it's just past Christmas. I have lived in a lot of really crummy places and there is a nice park not too far from where I live. I try to walk through the park at least once a day. Since it is just past Christmas and it is cold, people are out walking their dogs. The dogs are wearing brand new Christmas gift blankets in red, blue, green, yellow, purple, black and even tartan. It is really a disappointment to realize that there is a dog out there who is dressed better than I am. Comment? [No, I am not going to wear a diog blanket, not even a coat of many colors.]

Nope, not gonna comment. Only offer a snuggle.



{Aside: my in-laws insist on driving thru our local chicken fast food place (like KFC not not them) to get food for their 2 dogs (chciken strips from here & ice cream from Sonic next door) & don't like feeding them dry dog food when it's not convenient to go out. So, yeah, I know kinda what you're talking about.}

 

[sr71plt]

So, I take it this is not your computer and Internet connection you are using today (and that there's a good reason you're not at work instead of chatting on an Internet board), then. Otherwise, I'd wonder about your priorities.

Hope life improves for you in 2008.

 

[R. Richard]

So, I take it this is not your computer and Internet connection you are using today (and that there's a good reason you're not at work instead of chatting on an Internet board), then. Otherwise, I'd wonder about your priorities.

Hope life improves for you in 2008.

Actually, I was at work. We were called in for a meeting. The ass hole who called the meeting was late. Thus, instead of sitting and doing nothing, I used the time to make a post. [By the way, the meeting was, as usal, a total waste of time.]

Now, I have a quiz for the AH. If you had to make the terrible choice between being an alcoholic or a drunk, what is the obvious best choice?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

RICHARD

I'm kinda stoic when it comes to fortune. In my life I've seen some awful times, and been blessed in many ways. I'll likely live to be 90 and wont exercise/eat right for love nor money. I know people who do everything they should and die for no good reason, when young. Everyone gets a different prize in their box of Cracker Jack.

 

[R. Richard]

RICHARD

I'm kinda stoic when it comes to fortune. In my life I've seen some awful times, and been blessed in many ways. I'll likely live to be 90 and wont exercise/eat right for love nor money. I know people who do everything they should and die for no good reason, when young. Everyone gets a different prize in their box of Cracker Jack.

Like most things, there are those who have the gold ring drop into their hand with no effort and those who climb the mountain, fight the oges and find that the fabled gold ring has been misplaced.

Still, I would rather try to climbing the mountain route, because the skills I honed climbing the mountain give me a better chance to survive the ill winds of fortune.

No answer to my quiz?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

RICHARD

I had a friend in high school. He had it all. Athlete, girls, good looks, wealthy family, scholar. He went to college, graduated medical school. Gifted surgeon and professor in his 30s. And a drug addict.

The first few times he was caught forging prescriptions, they let it slide. But he kept it up and they took his license forever. No more profressor. No more board of directors. No more rich & famous.

 

[R. Richard]

RICHARD

I had a friend in high school. He had it all. Athlete, girls, good looks, wealthy family, scholar. He went to college, graduated medical school. Gifted surgeon and professor in his 30s. And a drug addict.

The first few times he was caught forging prescriptions, they let it slide. But he kept it up and they took his license forever. No more profressor. No more board of directors. No more rich & famous.

I saw the same kind of thing, on a lower level, time and again in the South Central. Someone who was born with everything, threw it away and woundup a junkie or a 'ho' working the steets. I also saw those who had to work and fight for anything they got, make it to a reasonably good life.

IMHO, the harder you have to work for what you get, they more likely you are to hang on to it.

 

[sr71plt]

No answer to my quiz?

Not from me, because my definition of "a drunk" would be identical to my definition of "an alcoholic."

 

[Weird Harold]

If you had to make the terrible choice between being an alcoholic or a drunk, what is the obvious best choice?

Actually, I have made that choice and decided that the only difference betweena drunk and an alcoholic is that Drunks don't have to go to meetings. I decided to be a drunk (or more precisely a "Reformed Lush") and not have to deal with the Meetings.

 

[R. Richard]

Actually, I have made that choice and decided that the only difference betweena drunk and an alcoholic is that Drunks don't have to go to meetings. I decided to be a drunk (or more precisely a "Reformed Lush") and not have to deal with the Meetings.

100% correct! If you are an alcoholic, there is an endless stream of meetings. If you are a drunk. you are not urged/forced to attend meetings.

Meetings are my second most favorite thing. My most favorite thing is throwing a bowling ball as high as I can and catching it with my teeth.

 

[adetaildiva]

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[R. Richard]

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You were suddenly called to a meeting?

 

[cloudy]

I'm the granddaughter of a man who was an alcoholic, and died of cirrhosis of the liver before I was born. My father was a high-functioning alcoholic. I deal with alcoholism and its effects every single day of my life.

I don't think your little "quiz" was amusing in the least.

 

[R. Richard]

I'm the granddaughter of a man who was an alcoholic, and died of cirrhosis of the liver before I was born. My father was a high-functioning alcoholic. I deal with alcoholism and its effects every single day of my life.

I don't think your little "quiz" was amusing in the least.

I am sorry that I offended you. I know the negative effects of alcohol very well, as I saw any number of people detroyed by alcohol addiction. I saw even more destroyed by dope addiction. I did try to indicate that the choice was an awful one.

 

[cloudy]

I am sorry that I offended you. I know the negative effects of alcohol very well, as I saw any number of people detroyed by alcohol addiction. I saw even more destroyed by dope addiction. I did try to indicate that the choice was an awful one.

Something you, and others, might consider the next time they're tempted to make alcoholism into a joke: I know for a fact I'm not the only one affected by it in my life...there are others who post here who's situations were much like mine, they just might not be as outspoken about it as I am.

Living on a reserve teaches you just how un-funny, and truly tragic, alcoholism is.

 

[elsol]

OK, it's just past Christmas. I have lived in a lot of really crummy places and there is a nice park not too far from where I live. I try to walk through the park at least once a day. Since it is just past Christmas and it is cold, people are out walking their dogs. The dogs are wearing brand new Christmas gift blankets in red, blue, green, yellow, purple, black and even tartan. It is really a disappointment to realize that there is a dog out there who is dressed better than I am. Comment? [No, I am not going to wear a diog blanket, not even a coat of many colors.]

*yawn*

My money... next question.

 

[sr71plt]

Something you, and others, might consider the next time they're tempted to make alcoholism into a joke: I know for a fact I'm not the only one affected by it in my life...there are others who post here who's situations were much like mine, they just might not be as outspoken about it as I am.

Living on a reserve teaches you just how un-funny, and truly tragic, alcoholism is.

Geez. Lighten up. Everyone has baggage similar to this in their background. No need to wallow in it. Sort of funny on a porn site that specializes in incest, nonconsent sex, and BDSM, for instance. What would Kathy Griffith say?

 

[sr71plt]

My money... next question.

The dog in your avatar looks cold. Shouldn't you buy it a doggie vest?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Actually, I was at work. We were called in for a meeting. The ass hole who called the meeting was late. Thus, instead of sitting and doing nothing, I used the time to make a post. [By the way, the meeting was, as usal, a total waste of time.]

Now, I have a quiz for the AH. If you had to make the terrible choice between being an alcoholic or a drunk, what is the obvious best choice?

This is an extremely easy question for me to answer. I AM an alcoholic, so it's not a matter of choice. But, thank God or Allah of Jehovah or The Man Upstairs, I haven't been a drunk for a number of years.

 

[elsol]

The dog in your avatar looks cold. Shouldn't you buy it a doggie vest?

My dog refuses to go outside if it's too cold, too hot, snowing, or raining, thus alas... it would be a waste of money.

 

[sr71plt]

I just stumbled onto the Amputee Fetish thread. Shouldn't we be waxing indignant over that too ("My grand uncle Harold was second base")? And, oh yeah, I'm a Methodist, so no one had better crack any religion jokes in here.

 

[sr71plt]

My dog refuses to go outside if it's too cold, too hot, snowing, or raining, thus alas... it would be a waste of money.

Great. Must mean you can buy yourself some pretty sharp clothes then.

 

[elsol]

Great. Must mean you can buy yourself some pretty sharp clothes then.

Well, I gave up a long time ago on filling up my empty inner life (do you know what a good therapist charges?!?)... so I went with the less expensive option of fierce outward appearances.

The girlfriend likes that option too... she gets lots of jewelry.