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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have not had a drink in about 5 years.
Not for any particular reason, except that I didn't enjoy it that much anymore. Also, I quit smoking around the same time, so not drinking made it easier.
I swear, WHEN Trump gets taken down, I'm going to go out to a good bar and I'll be swilling the hard stuff right out of the bottle and dancing on tables the whole night.
Initech
(100,042 posts)I'm hopping the next Uber to the nearest bar and going hard! I will be gladly celebrating in the streets!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)they DO go together...stopped seeing the jackass I was with...natural progression...I am with you, tho ..Parents quit smoking as soon as Surgeon General came out with warning...my Ma(87) still says she likes to go around smokers and sniff them !!
Here's to us Lucky...
LuckyCharms
(17,414 posts)If someone lights up a smoke on the next block, I can smell it! I still kinda/sorta like the smell...but I don't think I'll ever go back to it. Good for you for getting rid of the jackass!
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)that's a given....jackass now dead....bi polar....
LuckyCharms
(17,414 posts)I'm sure it had an effect on you even though he was a jackass. Also, I'm of the mind that if you can just have a smoke every once in awhile when you have a drink, it is ok. I tried doing that a few times, and I always started smoking again, so I had to finally go cold turkey.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)I like breathing too much...I got asthma and emphasema....both gone now..my Doc said that CAN happen....
LenaBaby61
(6,973 posts)I hear you.
I have a friend who said when tRump's taken down, she'll take me out for an expensive steak dinner @ a restaurant that a relative of her co-owns on the beach in So. California (Manhattan Beach, Ca). I've been a strict vegan since the late 1980's, and I got past the taste of meat long ago. I told her, when tReasonous fatso's taken down, and I mean really taken down, buy me a huge basket FULL of organic fruit--something I KNOW I'll enjoy eating and will EAT. I had a friend who celebrated when Pres. Obama won the presidency in 2008, and he lit up a cigar to celebrate, and he hadn't taken a puff in almost 30 years. Well, he's been smoking ever since and can't stop. Want's to, but can't. He's on his 4th anti-smoking med. The anti-smoking patches over the counter didn't work and the other 2 anti-smoking prescribed meds haven't helped. He's had 5 members of his immediate family die from lung cancer (smoking-related), amongst them, two 1st cousins, both of their dads, his brother who died from lung cancer @ 30, and both of his parents died of lung cancer (smoking-related-they both smoked King-sized Herbert Tareyton's since they were both about 18 years old, and died when they were both 66 years old, the same age he is now).
mercuryblues
(14,525 posts)dehydrated yet?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Independence Day from drumpf et al and the redumbliCON party.
leftieNanner
(15,067 posts)I think it would be fitting to put Trump, Ryan, and McConnell in the back of a horse drawn cart, with all three of them in orange jump suits and shackles. Drive them around DC - Hell, drive them across the country and let us mock them and throw rotten tomatoes in their faces.
PJMcK
(21,998 posts)Vodka and weed form my escape from TrumpWorld but when he's gone, the evening's beverages will be on me.
Who else will join us?!
Ligyron
(7,616 posts)The only way I can smoke weed is if I have a few drinks first. Otherwise, I get kinda paranoid for some reason.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)With me if I smoked a bit then drank it barely left me with only one foot in reality, you know, the one you hang over the side of the bed to touch the floor with.
Kinda, sorta....
"An Irishman is never too drunk"
"As long as he can hold onto a single bade of grass"
"And not fall off the world"
From a plaque in my Parents kitchen since I was young.
Sanity Claws
(21,841 posts)Mopar151
(9,975 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)When Trump is out I won't drink anymore. I won't drink any less either.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)If you've not drunk alcohol for 5 years, your body will probably get drunk faster than you realize. We want you to ENJOY kissing that clown in the WH good-bye. Beer and wine are just as festive as hard liquor. Buy a bottle of good champaign and share it with your pals.
LuckyCharms
(17,414 posts)Hell, I'll probably have a beer and pass out cold.
rzemanfl
(29,554 posts)walkingman
(7,583 posts)SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Even dumpf can't make me take a drink.
But I do love the joke flower though, I have a big ol fattie spiced with keef and coated with hash oil waiting.
For that day......
LuckyCharms
(17,414 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Vodka, St. Germain, Cointreau, White Cranberry Juice, Rose's Lime Juice ... shake with ice... strain into martini glass, garnish with floating thin lime slice (or fresh/frozen cranberries).
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)I'm getting a couple bottles of Asti Spumante and get a nice buzz on.
Oppaloopa
(866 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,414 posts)And I'm a 60 year old man.
C Moon
(12,209 posts)CHEERING and hooting until I lose my voice!
Vinca
(50,237 posts)Maybe two.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,055 posts)I'll take the table next to you.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I went thru a happy hour phase many years ago. Party party party. Scotch & water.
After the party phase was over, I quit drinking. I never liked it much, anyway. I usually have maybe one or two drinks a year.
I would never want to tie one on, now. I no longer enjoy the feeling or the taste.
I quit smoking years ago. I quit having even an occasional drink around that time, afraid that drinking might weaken me and lead to a smoke.
When Trump gets taken down...I don't know what I'll do to celebrate. I'll have to give that some thought.
Mopar151
(9,975 posts)Living well is the best revenge! For those about to enter Hell, a tall ice water is the perfect ironic toast goodbye.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)guss
(239 posts)I Stopped eating the popcorn and Switched to Beer after
Comrade Tump's 1st 6 months.
japple
(9,809 posts)Cha
(296,873 posts)nolabear
(41,936 posts)I doubt I'll get faced, but I'll certainly whoop in the street and have a couple glasses of champagne. And probably sleep better than I have in two years.
Side note: I recently had some bloodworm done and our hospital has incorporated graphing so you can see test results in graph form going back ten years. Happily I'm pretty much normal except for one set in 2016 where everything spiked. I was perplexed about what on earth had happened. I didn't recall any health disaster. A friend just smiled and said "You do know that was right after the election, right?"
I intend to outlive the bastard and if he's ever buried in a public place to go there and join the line to piss on his grave.
Coventina
(27,064 posts)But I will tie one on when he goes down.
Best_man23
(4,897 posts)That bottle will be opened the day tRump is gone.
Denis 11
(280 posts)I hope we won't have to wait very long more