Why is it that something toxic can make you feel so damn good?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

I had a glass of wine with dinner tonight, and I got high...

I'm still a little high, in fact...

I'm smiling with it...

But alcohol is toxic, but not very. Enough of it at one time, though, and you can get very sick, or even die...

It's always struck me as a paradox that a toxic substance can make you feel good!

:D

[XemaSab]

1. If you heard how much I have had in the last 24 hours

your liver would crawl out of your body and run away in horror. :o

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Xema!

Oh, I hope not! I'd like to keep my liver, TYVM!

:scared:

[UndertheOcean]

2. weed gets you much higher , and is not toxic ...bake hash brownies dear CP !!!!!

you will enjoy it !!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear UndertheOcean!

That may happen, one of these days...;-)

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. Peggy, please put down the wine. You don't want this happening to you...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear LeftyFingerPop...

Ah, no worries!

I finished that wine before we left the restaurant!

I am now happily metabolizing it...

Yum.

:hug:

[Deja Q]

7. A neighbor/cowkerer sitll isn't dead from it...

The night I called an ambulance, she was already months into a nasty problem and I later found out her blood alcohol level was .389...

After a few dozen DWIs and violating useless things like probation, she was thrown into the slammer. 6 months. Got out in 3. Went back in within 24 hours; she found some guy and boozed it up -- again.

She weighs like 90 pounds.

And i know she lost her job; there's nothing to come back to.

If she didn't have a death wish 8 months ago, she certainly does now...

And how her relatives can afford keeping the apartment available for her while she's in the hokey or selling her bod for some cheap booze and some pokey... $6000 and counting... not logical.

All that is no way to live a life. :(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear Deja Q...

What a terrible situation for you, and esp. her.

People who drink to excess often feel depressed and want to die...

That is NOT ME, I hasten to tell you...

I hope she'll hit bottom and realize that she really does want to live before it's too late...

I would never live my life like that...

:hug:

[Deja Q]

14. I'm certainly worried for her. AND,

I am so relieved you are not even remotely in that position!

It's horribly tragic. :(

Life is worth living, that's for sure.

Thx for the :hug:

:hug:

[UndertheOcean]

9. Alcohol is pure poison , anything stronger than one beer gives me a headache ....

and i think it kills brain cells to boot .

[jmowreader]

17. .389? Holy shit, dude...

.3 is the threshold of "death is possible."

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. It tried to kill me once.

I won't give it another chance.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six...

I know it did...

I'm so grateful it didn't succeed...

I would have missed you something awful...

:hug:

[rcrush]

12. Alchohol when I was 21 = good Alcohol at 29 = pain

I used to be able to pound beers all night and not have any problems. Now 2 beers makes me puke.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear rcrush...

I've never been awfully fond of beer...

Ale was more my thing when I was young.

Now, I love a good glass of wine.

But just one, normally...no more than two.

Knowing one's limits is a good thing!

I hope you've found your happy medium...

:hug:

[UTUSN]

15. Yip, "toxic" means (poisonous?), so "inTOXICate" means?!1 & Dylan THOMAS died

from over the top benders and his death certificate said his cause of death was "Insult to the brain."

That said, CHEERS, CAPeg!1 You are nowhere close to Dylan's level of consumption!1

[elshiva]

16. Wine is life! No way is it toxic.

;)
http://foundmagazine.com/find/11098

[liberaltrucker]

18. Belated Happy Birthday!!!

Anything can be toxic if enough is consumed.

Drink up! :toast:

:hug:

:loveya:

[azmouse]

19. I love, love, love the taste of Scotch, rum, bourbon, etc!

But if someone could invent an alcoholic drink that tasted the exact same but w/o the effects of alcohol, I'd sooo be there! I love to have a drink or two but I can't stand the woozy effect from it.

[cemaphonic]

20. True of lots of things though.

Your body actually depends on getting enough arsenic to function, for example.