Secondhand Drinking: n. A negative effect that a drinker has on a non-drinker.
I was so irritated to stumble through this word last night I just wanted to pull-out my few remaining strand of hair. All along there had been a single word that could save me an entire unpleasant decade trying to explain my foul moods and nobody tell me of its existence..?
My irritation was fuelled by the realization that I no longer have a use for this new found word. On the other hand I’m also glad that I have no use for it. But the problem now is, my moody phases which I always attributed to Secondhand drinking still continue and I have to find a new single word that would explain it all, and I haven’t stumble upon it yet.
If you are a little confused by what I wrote about, it is like this. My father is a total teetotaler and I take after my father. But my Brother used to drink and many times he brought home his drinking friends and they would all get drunk. I can’t stand any drunk around me; they can only topple my mood. In fact, I often see drunken people only as a lesser human (i.e. about 50% functioning human).
Now, you want to admit it or not, we all suffer from secondhand drinking knowingly or unknowingly. Be it cleaning after someone’s vomit or being left red-faced by your friend’s drunken stupor in the street, or unknowingly inhaling Class-A Carcinogen emitted by alcohol in the air you breathe. That’s nothing.
For many, secondhand drinking has a lifelong impact. For instance, a friend’s education was interrupted mid-way because of his father’s heavy drinking. His not being able to achieve his optimum capability and the subsequent consequences like not having a job, impregnating a neighboring jobless girl, having more babies, not able to make ends meet and never able to climb the social ladder, etc. can all be traced back to his father’s drinking. That’s second hand drinking…
There are also high chances that secondhand drinking is responsible for your friend being categorized as Physically Handicapped. If your alcoholic neighbor is giving you sleepless night, or you are victims of car accidents, assault, fights, stupid arguments –then chances are high that you too are one in the list. Say, a Bollywood actor ran over some beggar sleeping on the pavement, their plight: secondhand drinking! In one sentence, any negative effect caused by drinking to its environment is called secondhand drinking.
Well, by now, I hope you understand what secondhand drinking is. It indeed is a serious issue that should be taken up by many housewives, and some husbands, of course. But for my poor spirit’s sake, let’s cut-out the serious part as I don’t want to sound like those moral teacher, and let’s put some twist to the above paragraph.
Section A
Q. Why don’t you get a good job?
A. My parents can’t afford to school me, they are alcoholic. (or Secondhand Drinking)
Q. Did you rough-up the neighbor’s girl?
A. No school means I got nothing else to do (or Secondhand Drinking)
Q. Why do you try to commit suicide?
A. My parents drink everything (Secondhand Drinking)
Section B
Q. Why don’t you get a good job?
A. I got kicked out (‘cos he’s alcoholic)
Q. Did you rough-up the neighbor’s girl?
A. I was Drunk (oops!)
Q. Why do you try to commit suicide?
A. I got nothing to drink.
Well, I hope you find the difference –see, the difference is there’s no difference at all. They are the same. The bottom line is -Alcohol not only harms the user, but those surrounding the user, including the unborn child, children, family members, and the sufferers of crime, violence and drink-driving accidents, so it definitely is a serious issues that need to be tackled. If smoking can be banned, why not alcohol… Secondhand drinking wrecks more homes, more marriages, and more lives than smoking.
For More:
I was so irritated to stumble through this word last night I just wanted to pull-out my few remaining strand of hair. All along there had been a single word that could save me an entire unpleasant decade trying to explain my foul moods and nobody tell me of its existence..?
My irritation was fuelled by the realization that I no longer have a use for this new found word. On the other hand I’m also glad that I have no use for it. But the problem now is, my moody phases which I always attributed to Secondhand drinking still continue and I have to find a new single word that would explain it all, and I haven’t stumble upon it yet.
If you are a little confused by what I wrote about, it is like this. My father is a total teetotaler and I take after my father. But my Brother used to drink and many times he brought home his drinking friends and they would all get drunk. I can’t stand any drunk around me; they can only topple my mood. In fact, I often see drunken people only as a lesser human (i.e. about 50% functioning human).
Now, you want to admit it or not, we all suffer from secondhand drinking knowingly or unknowingly. Be it cleaning after someone’s vomit or being left red-faced by your friend’s drunken stupor in the street, or unknowingly inhaling Class-A Carcinogen emitted by alcohol in the air you breathe. That’s nothing.
For many, secondhand drinking has a lifelong impact. For instance, a friend’s education was interrupted mid-way because of his father’s heavy drinking. His not being able to achieve his optimum capability and the subsequent consequences like not having a job, impregnating a neighboring jobless girl, having more babies, not able to make ends meet and never able to climb the social ladder, etc. can all be traced back to his father’s drinking. That’s second hand drinking…
There are also high chances that secondhand drinking is responsible for your friend being categorized as Physically Handicapped. If your alcoholic neighbor is giving you sleepless night, or you are victims of car accidents, assault, fights, stupid arguments –then chances are high that you too are one in the list. Say, a Bollywood actor ran over some beggar sleeping on the pavement, their plight: secondhand drinking! In one sentence, any negative effect caused by drinking to its environment is called secondhand drinking.
Well, by now, I hope you understand what secondhand drinking is. It indeed is a serious issue that should be taken up by many housewives, and some husbands, of course. But for my poor spirit’s sake, let’s cut-out the serious part as I don’t want to sound like those moral teacher, and let’s put some twist to the above paragraph.
Section A
Q. Why don’t you get a good job?
A. My parents can’t afford to school me, they are alcoholic. (or Secondhand Drinking)
Q. Did you rough-up the neighbor’s girl?
A. No school means I got nothing else to do (or Secondhand Drinking)
Q. Why do you try to commit suicide?
A. My parents drink everything (Secondhand Drinking)
Section B
Q. Why don’t you get a good job?
A. I got kicked out (‘cos he’s alcoholic)
Q. Did you rough-up the neighbor’s girl?
A. I was Drunk (oops!)
Q. Why do you try to commit suicide?
A. I got nothing to drink.
Well, I hope you find the difference –see, the difference is there’s no difference at all. They are the same. The bottom line is -Alcohol not only harms the user, but those surrounding the user, including the unborn child, children, family members, and the sufferers of crime, violence and drink-driving accidents, so it definitely is a serious issues that need to be tackled. If smoking can be banned, why not alcohol… Secondhand drinking wrecks more homes, more marriages, and more lives than smoking.
For More:
http://speakeasyforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/518607732/m/8891070791
http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html3month/2006/060814.T.Chester.drinking.html
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/324/
2 comments:
Stumbled upon your blog. i liked your previous post (Pipi and Pupu..). Reminds me so much about my parents feeling so suffocated whenever they visit me.
I agree with you, if secondhand smoking can be banned, why not secondhand drinking.
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