YESTERDAY I WOKE UP with my wife yelling at me - and I responded in kind and the day just got slowly worse to the point that I ended up secretly glugging wine by lunchtime and getting onto my second bottle by 4pm.
I was drunk by then and sort of hoping my wife wouldn't smell it on me when I walked past her. She did - I stank of alcohol of course - and she took the kids to her mums house and left me to my own devices.
I heard a little girl 2.40
So, with no money, no keys and no wallet - what to do? Half shot and angry and abandoned - I looked underneath a pottery bowl and found a secret hidden $15. A purple five dollar note and a bluish $10 note. But no car and it was rainy and cold and I was tired and all that - so I walked across town looking for two bottles of wine for $15.
Funny how you sweat when you walk fast in the rain - even when it is like 26C - and you somehow manage to feign sobriety and normalcy when you get to the alcohol shop. And I even stooped so low as to pick up an old cigarette but off the road that wasn't wet. Nice form considering I'd also stopped that shit a few months back too...
I was drunk by then and sort of hoping my wife wouldn't smell it on me when I walked past her. She did - I stank of alcohol of course - and she took the kids to her mums house and left me to my own devices.
I heard a little girl 2.40
So, with no money, no keys and no wallet - what to do? Half shot and angry and abandoned - I looked underneath a pottery bowl and found a secret hidden $15. A purple five dollar note and a bluish $10 note. But no car and it was rainy and cold and I was tired and all that - so I walked across town looking for two bottles of wine for $15.
Funny how you sweat when you walk fast in the rain - even when it is like 26C - and you somehow manage to feign sobriety and normalcy when you get to the alcohol shop. And I even stooped so low as to pick up an old cigarette but off the road that wasn't wet. Nice form considering I'd also stopped that shit a few months back too...