Re: [CH] hotlucks and...well... booze
Charles P Demas (cpd@world.std.com)
Mon, 14 May 2001 19:26:04 -0400
On Sun, 13 May 2001 raincrone@juno.com wrote:
> I've got to ask a question, and I'm hoping it won't come across tactless.
> I'm not putting down anybody's drinking habits in the least, please
> believe me, just asking for information in order to protect my own
> personal recovery from alcoholism:
>
> I've never been to a hotluck or similar chilehead gathering. Part of
> that has been due to my health and
> finances, but some of it, to be perfectly honest, has
> been out of concern for how boozy I've heard some
> of these occasions can get. As a recovering drunk,
> I not only don't drink myself, I don't any longer enjoy being around
> people who are gettin' seriously lubed; it just has too many memories
> for me of some very wretched...with or without the "w"...years.
>
> So I'd like to hear (backchannel, if you prefer) from fellow recovering
> folks or other non- or minimal drinkers on the list: just how liquid
> _does_ it get at the average hotluck? Are we talkin' two or three beers
> here, or serious winebox-upending? :) I'd just like to know what I'm
> getting into.
I've only been to the hotlucks at Jim McGrath's, but I've never seen
anyone getting anywhere close to high. It seems to be two or three
beers over the course of the afternoon. Everyone seems very sober to
me. When "The Bread" was at one hotluck, there was slightly more interest
in the beer, but nothing got out of hand. There is no hard drinking.
HTH,
Chuck Demas