Ancient Arabs were right, al-kuhul is The Devil and you should stay away from it.
It pushes you to do bad things, not things you wouldn't do while sober, but things you will regret later, like drinking with strangers. Let me tell you one thing about strangers: unless you are a chad with a chiseled jawline who always attracts large group of followers with his natural charisma strangers you meet whilst drinking are crazy. Crazy and alcoholic. And if you're desperate enough to drink with strangers you're probably an alcoholic too. There are different types of strangers you will meet though, bums for example, some bums are aggressive - don't drink with those. Other are peaceful and calm, those are the ones that usually will ask you to borrow a fiver but they are so nice you usually give them your change or even share a drink with. Knew a bum once, chill guy but alcohol clearly destroyed his mind, I was working with him on a job and he destroyed nice front door in a house because he didn't knew we had a key (house was a squat bumhole we had to clean for the renovating crew), later when boss wasn't around he explained his personal philosophy of slacking off on a job. He died in hospital last month, some people say he tripped while drunk, other say local drunk beat him to death. Guy is in prison now conveniently enough, if that was really him we're gonna break his legs when he gets out - frontier justice. The bum never was aggressive, never did anything to anyone, didn't deserve to die. Getting to the point, worst type of stranger to drink with - a woman. I've met two of those yesterday; one has Problems and when she drunks too much wine she likes to complain about her Problems, like her mommy dying when she was six and she didn't really gave a shit about it for all of her life but now she has an attention deficit it's apparently part of The Problems, another part of those is that she has no friends at school, which is a giant red flag at her age of seventeen. The other girl is her only friend as far as i'm concerned and they both like to gather information about people, this was my first interaction with them and they knew everything about me, where i live, who i am and who my family is, crazy shit but our town is relatively small. The other girl is less sad, and not as much of a mess than the other one, but surely is eccentric. She's a little older than me, twenty four or twenty five i believe, like all female mid-stage drunks likes to get wasted on cheap wine. And she likes young boys. I'm not even kidding, she's like Misato from Evangelion in training, she likes them legal - sixteen or seventeen, she buys them drinks, talks to them very fondly and at one time called herself the mommy of all teenage boys in our town (which was a little hot not gonna lie, but she's too flat for my standards of a mommy). Amusingly enough she has a boyfriend who is about her age, i never saw him, i'm not sure if he's even real, and if he is i'm not sure he knows about his woman's little fetish.
Anyway the point is, my dearest friend Binyamin "
@dropdatwat" Kohen you should get sober while you still can. I would get sober too but that's not physically possible for me, not in Slavistan.