Mad Dog 20/20

If you are old enough to know what Mad Dog 20/20 is, you know it can kill ya.  I should have died a couple of times.  Because I didn’t learn the first time, I am pretty sure I asked God to take me the second time.  He didn’t.  I had a lesson to learn.  Actually, I had several to learn, and not just about the effects of alcohol.  Well, the big ones definitely involved alcohol.  I do know I stopped drinking MD 20/20.  I switched to other equally intoxicating elixirs of one sort or another.  Many more years of throwing ‘em back, and prayers followed.  

These days I am hardly a drinking woman.  But I am mad.  About nothing in-particular, just if it involves people.  I feel like I should join a boxing team.  I quit smoking almost seven years ago to be healthier for my grandchildren.  When I think back – this is when the madness began (that I am aware of).  Something about not smoking caused a knee jerk reaction for going into immediate menopause, which then snowballed into not having a taste for alcohol, which led to snippy snappy, eye rolling, bite your head off, tough crap stuff.  And crying.  Well maybe it’s not that bad.  It’s just a crap shoot.  

I wonder if there is a way to go back to drinking and smoking.  Is that the cure for madness?  People that drink seem really happy.  The world seems to roll off their shoulders.  They are always gathering and celebrating something.  The risk of drinking alcohol, along with the idea of praying for my life on the bathroom floor just doesn’t appeal to me these days.  Smoking is not such a concern, as I can hardly fathom the thought of a cigarette in my mouth.  

I thought it might be a good idea to seek professional help for this madness, but I lost my job which means no more insurance, so that settles that idea.  I have a friend whom I normally talk lifes’ crazy junk with, but now she’s mad too.  Throw that idea out the window.  See what I mean – it’s maddening.  I can totally relate to Maxine the comic.  

The way I see it; my vision being 20/20 with glasses on; all this madness is just a phase.  To be on the safe side though, I am going to check into a rabies shot.