The bad drunks, the ones that get you in trouble, are the ones that sneak up on you. If you set out to get drunk, then you go at things with a plan in mind, a pacing that a sneaky drunk slyly slips around. During a sneaky drunk, you start with a drink, maybe in the afternoon, and one thing leads to another, and maybe you haven’t eaten enough, at least not enough for the kind of drinking you are about to engage in, and before long you are drunker than you should be, sloshy, and because you haven’t planned for the drunkenness, it seems like a pleasing surprise, an unexpected guest, and you keep
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