Here I will admit that I don’t drink, not because I’m any sort of puritan, ‘coz I ain’t. It’s just that being “a woman of a certain age”, my hormones decided that alcohol and I are incompatible. Now I only have to sniff the stuff and I get a headache, which has taken all the fun out of it.
But Slashfood’s Bob Sassone says, “I think there’s a misconception about drinking alone. A lot of people I know see drinking alone as a sign that you’re depressed, lonely, unsocial, or a combo of all three.”
Whilst I would agree with him that there is a huge difference between having a “medicinal” red wine with your dinner or single a gin and tonic and, being “face down in the gutter with a bottle of whiskey in a brown paper bag”, I think psychoanalysis might be a healthier way of “opening up internal lines of communication” with your inner self.
Getting to know that rogue is no bad thing and most people are uncomfortable with that or avoid the little bugger completely, but is all this talk of “setting monkeys free” just a drinker’s excuse?
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Sponzurz
I see nothing wrong with making myself a drink for dinner or after. I’m Irish and a big fan of whiskey, so I’ll often have a bit of Bushmills on the rocks after I eat. I’m 23 and Female, and I realize this surprises people (my friends call me the Old Man), but it’s a matter of culinary preferences rather than a desire to get sloshed (most of the time). Chow just did an article on White Collar Moonshine which I thought was very interesting on this point. You can drink beer or wine by yourself, but hard alcohol still has a bad rep.
Thanks Caley, it is interesting. I found the article you’re referring to (here’s a link for those who wish to follow it). Actually, illegal or not, putting it that way - the making being transformed into a hobby - does make it seem more “acceptable”.
There’s also the concept of spiking the after-dinner espresso that they mention, which I would hardly consider as a “hard drinking” habit.