Just now I remembered a little detail of that day, one that I pushed aside in my memory ... Before he left for work that day, I noticed that he prepared a bottle of juice to take to work, which was strange because they could get that kind of juice at work from those things with drinks and junk food. It was the same bottle, the same color of content ... He was taking a small juice bottle of wine to work and he was hiding it from others carefully.
After that evening dad seemed to realized that the whole thing went to far. He decided to stop drinking beer until summer, which meant couple months. He was sober for couple of weeks than his mood changed and again there was another weekend of hard drinking. No beer. Just more wine and stronger liquor, spirits.
Whole family, neighbours and his friends knew about his 'no beer' mission and nobody saw anything strange in this. It was kind of popular in that period to have goals like this, somebody decided not to drink any alcohol for couple of months, another person quit on certain kinds of drinks, others were starting to eat healtier and workout. The generation in their 50ies was making new resolutions for the new half century of their lives. For the first time they calculated how much working years they have left before their retirement, started dreaming of their new freedom with limited budget yet all that time that they will have. Women went to bed with warm feet, men with cold ones. Women accepted they were going into menopause, men just whined about the strange changes.
Ups and downs come and gone ... The only thing that really changed is how everybody accepted the new condition they were in and went along with it. We all grew old a little, us kids grew taller, changed lines of our faces a little, started thinking a bit differently, our parents gained couple wrinkles, pounds and wisdom of the old ones.
But my dad was still drinking.
After that evening dad seemed to realized that the whole thing went to far. He decided to stop drinking beer until summer, which meant couple months. He was sober for couple of weeks than his mood changed and again there was another weekend of hard drinking. No beer. Just more wine and stronger liquor, spirits.
Whole family, neighbours and his friends knew about his 'no beer' mission and nobody saw anything strange in this. It was kind of popular in that period to have goals like this, somebody decided not to drink any alcohol for couple of months, another person quit on certain kinds of drinks, others were starting to eat healtier and workout. The generation in their 50ies was making new resolutions for the new half century of their lives. For the first time they calculated how much working years they have left before their retirement, started dreaming of their new freedom with limited budget yet all that time that they will have. Women went to bed with warm feet, men with cold ones. Women accepted they were going into menopause, men just whined about the strange changes.
Ups and downs come and gone ... The only thing that really changed is how everybody accepted the new condition they were in and went along with it. We all grew old a little, us kids grew taller, changed lines of our faces a little, started thinking a bit differently, our parents gained couple wrinkles, pounds and wisdom of the old ones.
But my dad was still drinking.
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