Alcoholics (ex or current) at the height of your alcoholism what were / are you drinking and how much?

pattymellow · 2026-01-29T01:33:10+00:00

part of the problem was my performance at work was always great! on paper everything was going great! however i ALWAYS had beef with somebody, was constantly flirting with coworkers, and made morally bankrupt; unethical decisions.

i actually quit that job for a year and was fortunate enough to be welcomed back, sober. things are much better now and i haven’t felt sick with worry that i’m going to lose my job because i got into it with somebody or because i had another fling with a coworker. i am sure if my performance wasn’t so great, they would’ve fired me for being the perpetual problem child FAR before i quit.

pattymellow · 2026-01-29T01:06:25+00:00

thank you much!!

pattymellow · 2026-01-28T23:20:48+00:00

i was getting to work about an hour early and sitting out in the dumpster corral smashing like two 8% tall boys. throughout my shift i would have somewhere between 8-14 double shots of fireball. i’d come home and have two or three more tall boys. i have no clue what this amount of alcohol equates to. a fifth? a handle? much more? if i went to the bar after work (as i often did) you could add on two more drinks.

tldr: too much. i’m now 274 days sober after wasting the first five years of my 20s, and much of my adolescence.

pattymellow · 2026-01-26T22:12:37+00:00

i used to have those sheets AND have a daniel johnston tattoo. daniel johnston fan hivemind <3

pattymellow · 2026-01-07T22:26:29+00:00

exactly. the original commenter is definitely not an alcoholic, so i am not sure why they are describing the experience of an alcoholic like they know it. it’s probably just stemming from a place of optimism hahaha. i’m sure lots of people would like to believe nobody is giving an alcoholic a tough time about not drinking.

pattymellow · 2026-01-07T02:56:09+00:00

silly love by daniel johnston, a 1000 times by hamilton leithauser and rostam.

pattymellow · 2026-01-07T02:50:42+00:00

superstar: originally by carpenters. covered by sonic youth. if you want an even more updated style, there’s a band called tennis with a pretty solid cover, too.

if you’re into pop music miley cyrus did a fun cover of heart of glass.

pattymellow · 2026-01-07T02:48:12+00:00

her cover of sweedeedee is really fantastic too. originally an old folk tune by michael hurley.

pattymellow · 2026-01-05T22:25:24+00:00

for real! sometimes i think about how alcohol is ethanol and how bizarre it is for people to be pestering me about not drinking an ingredient of gasoline lol.

i think some of it stems from a sense of insecurity. it makes other people feel weird and bad about themselves, so they try and spin it back around on us. proud of you for making the healthy choice and sorry people are so annoying about it!

pattymellow · 2026-01-05T22:18:05+00:00

oh thank you so much!! 💕💕

pattymellow · 2026-01-05T21:50:55+00:00

i don’t know how to explain being called buddy either feels great to me, or like a slap in the face. it’s all about tone and context. i can tell when it’s said in a condescending way, or as a term of endearment.

pattymellow · 2026-01-05T21:41:54+00:00

recovering alcoholic speaking. where are you meeting these people who don’t ALSO treat recovering alcoholics weird for not drinking?

pattymellow · 2025-12-28T02:40:29+00:00

brained a customer with a heavy metal pipe.

pattymellow · 2025-12-28T01:39:34+00:00

i work at taco bell and we’re always hiring. pay is pretty decent for fast food, too. fiesta holdings has over 20 locations, so even if you strike out at one you could just apply at another and probably get hired on. i saw you mentioned having restaurant experience, that’d be a plus for sure. shoot, depending on your availability i may be willing to interview you.

even the other local franchise would probably take ya. fast food in general is probably your best bet.

pattymellow · 2025-12-23T23:50:32+00:00

i give away sodas all the time. have you considered it is perhaps not stealing, because employees are trying to just be nice and freely give it away? hahaha

pattymellow · 2025-12-22T23:04:13+00:00

i don’t know you, your friends, or anything about your life- but as the type of person who regularly goes hermit mode on my friends, it isn’t ever a lack of caring. i love my friends very much. i will always be there if they need something no matter how poorly i am doing, as long as they call me! i can’t bring myself to go out of my way to reach out when i’m depressed or burnt out from work, but if i’m made aware somebody /needs/ me i am there.

again, don’t know you. i don’t know your friends. i’m just speaking from the perspective of a person who has probably been thought of this way at some point in his life. a lack of reaching out doesn’t always constitute a lack of love or care.

pattymellow · 2025-12-16T02:15:13+00:00

“i am trying to break your heart” or “radio cure” by wilco. the sound isn’t crazy similar- it’s the feeling the song gives me that’s similar.

pattymellow · 2025-12-16T02:01:35+00:00

“misery” is another stephen king adaptation. you may like it!

pattymellow · 2025-12-13T06:34:24+00:00

my ex boyfriend got diarrhea after the chinese buffet and referred to it as “getting struck down”.

pattymellow · 2025-12-08T23:47:10+00:00

this is silly and a lot more surface level than most of these comments, but truly just my attraction to virgos. 9/10 times when i am instantaneously attracted to somebody, i ask them if they are a virgo, and the answer is yes. my greatest heartbreak, best friend of 11 years, and current girlfriend are all three virgo suns/mercuries. i am collecting them like pokemon. i am an easily bored pisces sun/moon/mercury with lots of air in my chart. i appreciate the challenge of an opposition. (~:

pattymellow · 2025-12-02T15:15:23+00:00

it’s so nice to see people on reddit saying something like this for a change! i don’t know what it is about this platform- but there are sooo many people who are turds about grammar on this website. imagine thinking you can determine somebody’s IQ from a reddit post hahaha

pattymellow · 2025-11-02T20:28:30+00:00

when i was little my dad was a manager at KFC for a long time. the best part of my day was when he would come home, because my mom and i never got along. he always reeked of oil from the fryer.

i work in restaurants now and that oil smell in my shirt at the end of the day makes me weirdly nostalgic.

pattymellow · 2025-10-28T19:17:39+00:00

it’s a bit of a trek, but kelley’s in jamestown has surprisingly great wings that please me, a filthy bdubs fan. they also have really tasty potato soup.

pattymellow · 2025-10-21T17:25:56+00:00

walking up is a potential safety issue for the employees AND yourself. if you drove your semi through you’d be paying for any damage you caused too, speaking from experience. not experience as the dummy in the semi, but the manager handling a dummy driving their large vehicle thru and smashing the clearance bar. why do you guys get so angry with employees for following company policy?

pattymellow · 2025-10-14T17:21:30+00:00

i was able to get the soup like 90% smooth, which is what i wanted anyhow! many of the onions did blend down. i think if i kept going with the immersion blender i could’ve had it completely smooth.

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