slynch2112 -

The odor of alcohol being excreted from someone's pores is one I've been able to recognize since even before I had concrete memories - it was always associated with yelling, anger, and in most cases physical harm. Both my father and my uncle had this smell most of the time until I was 18 - when my mother and father separated fir a time. My uncle I stopped talking to long before that. My cousin used to smell like that and he ended up in rehab - and a few years later dead of medical complications from drug abuse.

It is a smell that triggers me a d puts me on edge - call it PTSD or even self-preservation - it takes a fair amount of alcohol for someone's liver to not keep up with the processing that they excrete it in sweat. Especially to smell it hours afterwards

It causes people to do things they wouldn't normally do - say things they wouldn't normally say, and make decisions they wouldn't normally make - some call it "liquid courage" - I prefer to call it "liquid stupidity"

Alcohol in moderation is fine - but it's scary when it's no longer "in moderation"

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