Abstinence Now

Abstinence Now 

Capt. Benjamin Willard: Toowong… Shit... I’m still only in Toowong… Every time I think I’m gonna wake up back in the bottle. When I was sober after my first month it was worse. I’d wake up and there’d be nothing. I hardly said a word to my flatmate until I said yes to moving out. When I was there I wanted to be here. When I was here, all I could think of was getting back into the bottle. I’m here a week now, waiting for a drink, getting softer. Every minute I stay in sobriety I get weaker. And every minute Charlie holds up the bar he gets stronger. Each time I look around the walls move in a little tighter…

Nearly two weeks into my annual “No Drinking Between New Years and Australia Health Kick.” Leaning on sobriety to try and coax my body’s vital organs into hanging on for another 12 months. I’ve taken to walking to pass time. Just this morning I was rambling through the park, coming up behind a lady with this heavy duty looking double shoulder brace contraption. I was trying not to stare while I wondered what sort of horrible life changing accident she’d been through to have to wear such a thing.

As I passed I realised it was a baby carrier containing an infant.

 
That’s some sort of life changing accident right there…

Chief: Captain. You’re giving away our Fourex for a Playmate of the Month?

Capt. Benjamin Willard: Nope… Playmate of the year. 

Colonel Kurtz: I watched a worm drowning in a bottle of tequila. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Drowning, choking, in a bottle of tequila… and surviving.

As you can see the Bin Chicken Ballet is in town
I passed by this danseuse in the park
displaying a textbook first Ar-Ibis-que

Lt. Col. Kilgore: I love the smell of Bloody Mary’s in the morning.  

Smells like… Victory… 

I probably need to take more water next time I go for a walk.
Think the sun got to me and I might’ve got a little dehydrated there…

Capt. Benjamin Willard: Every man gets everything he wants. I wanted a drink. And for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service...