You think I don't complain about alcoholics?
My stepmother is an alcoholic. She is so horrible. She can't handle her liquor at all. I still have not forgotten what happened when I was 16. It was NOT pretty. In fact, it was so bad that my aunt (my dad's sister) and uncle and my two cousins packed up and left during the night it happened. This was on a camping trip when I was visiting with my dad and family for a few days (I was in foster care). First she slapped me in the face, and then she slammed the door on my little sister's fingers. And when my sister cried, my stepmother screamed at her to shut up and told her that she deserved it. Then the storm began, and she threatened to do something (I didn't catch what she said) and then ran off, and my dad had to go after her to make sure she did not hurt herself. My aunt and uncle saw EVERYTHING...they took care of us while my dad and stepmother was fighting, and then when they came back, and when we all went to bed, my aunt and uncle and my cousins packed up and left during the night. They hardly came around my dad's house ever again ever since that day. They avoid my stepmother like the plague, and makes all kinds of excuses so they didn't have to come over for holidays and stuff. EVERYBODY in my dad's family hates her, including my paternal grandparents. And I have refused to stay another night with my dad and his wife ever since...after that it was only day visits (for only a couple of hours or so) after I left foster care, and now I have not been back to their house ever since I moved away from Wisconsin in 2001. I make all kinds of excuses so I don't have to come visit, shit like I don't have money for plane tickets, or I'm sick or whatever. Anything. My sister used to go visit them, but then a year ago she requested a military leave for two weeks and she went to stay there to help my dad and stepmother out around the house while my stepmother had surgery for her Chiari malformation, and what does my stepmother do? Does she thank my sister? Nope. The ENTIRE TIME my stepmother was recovering from surgery and my sister was taking care of her and cleaning the house and doing EVERYTHING around the house while dad worked, my stepmother CONSTANTLY insulted my sister, calling her all kinds of names, including "slut" and "whore" and every single name in the book plus some more. Because she was always drunk, even after the surgery. She would not stay away from the drink. My sister was only able to put up with her and her bullshit for only THREE DAYS before she had enough and dropped everything and said "NO MORE!" and left. She left my stepmother to fend for herself because she was done being mistreated because our stepmother would not stay away from the alcohol. She went to stay at a friend's house until she was able to fly back to Virginia a week and a half later (because the plane ticket was non-exchangeable and non-refundable). She knew why I stayed away, and now she has not been back ever since. We're both done with her, and we're leaving her to our step-sisters to deal with her, and even they don't want to go back, they both live in Florida. What does that tell you? IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE LIQUOR, CHECK YOURSELF INTO REHAB AND STOP DRINKING! I do not tolerate alcoholics at all, no matter how sad or horrible their pasts were. I had a horrible past, but I do not turn to alcohol to deal with it.
Also...my stepmother got hit by ANOTHER drunk driver in 1994. Her lung was punctured, her collarbone broken, her left leg broken, and I can't remember what else. She had to have surgery and she was in the hospital for two weeks. And my dad's car was totalled. That car was actually my late great-grandmother's and she had given it to my dad a few years before she died from leukemia. My stepmother was drinking before the accident, and she's still drinking after the accident. That accident has not taught her any lessons, obviously.
Everyday, I wish she would be locked up. Forever. I hate her. My sister hates her, too. Her and the other alcoholics who will not quit, who have hit bottom but still will not quit, who do not care about others but themselves, etc. Those people belong in a locked ward for the rest of their lives, especially if they REFUSE to get help EVEN after hitting bottom many times, continue to drink and drive, and still won't stop even with all kinds of resources out there such as AA and rehab and detox and psychiatric help and everything. I'm done trying to help those people if they refuse to help themselves. They have to want to help themselves if they want to dig themselves out of the black hole they dug for themselves. I can't make them get help, I can't force them, they have to want it, that's the problem. If they refuse to get help, then they should be locked up for the rest of their lives for our safety as well as their own safety. Why should we put up with their drunk driving and let them kill people that way? NO. Take away their licenses for good, and if they continue to treat us like shit and abuse us and other people, then lock them up and throw away the key. I'm done dealing with drunks.
And whenever I see someone in a car with an open bottle or can of alcohol, I will call the cops on them. Always. Even if they're just parked and just sitting in the car. Doesn't matter. I have actually done this two times, two different times, when I saw the open can or bottle.
So don't say that nothing is ever said about drinking, because I just said a hell of a lot!
No thanks. I don't need that much anger in my life. I don't like anger. 
Everything is going up in price, I've noticed.
