The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent but had not phoned in sick. So he dialed the employee’s home phone number and was greeted with a child’s whisper. ‘ Hello ? ‘

‘Is your daddy home?’ ‘ Yes, he’s out in the garden ,’ whispered the small voice. ‘May I talk with him?’ The child whispered, ‘ No .’ ;

So the boss asked, ‘Well, is your Mommy there?’ ‘ Yes, she’s out in the garden too ‘& The boss asked; ‘May I talk with her?’ Again the small voice whispered, ‘ No .’ Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, ‘Is anybody else there?’ ‘ Yes ,’ whispered the child, ‘ a policeman.. ‘

Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee’s home, the boss asked, ‘May I speak with the policeman?’ ‘ No, he’s busy , ‘ whispered the child. ‘Busy doing what?’ ‘ Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the police dog men. ‘ Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in the background, the boss asked, ‘What is that noise?’ ‘ It’s a helicopter ‘ answered the whispering voice.

‘What is going on there?’ demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive. ‘ The search team just landed a helicopter ‘ ‘A search team?’ said the boss. ‘What are they searching for?’

Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle…. ‘ ME ‘

It is not uncommon for us to ridicule addicts. I have often been requesting my friends to send me jokes and funny pictures of alcoholics and other addicts. If you are a non-drinker and have a company which is full of drinkers, then you get to enjoy the most in a drinking party. Observing the behaviors of my friends after they have drunk is what I enjoy which I am in such a party. Often these behaviors become the reason for my jokes.

Having said all this the flip side of this – the horror attached with this addictions cannot be contained in it. We seldom realize it because we do not come across such stories very often. I was shocked recently when one of my friend’s relative died due to an alcohol addiction and I wondered how one can get addicted to it.

Treating an addict is not impossible though it could be difficult. With so many good alcohol rehabilitation centers around, the only difficult task is to identify which is the best. After that you can rest assured that they will take care off the rest.

These centers have excellent drug rehab program as well that cures drug addictions like magic. Addiction to banned and prohibited drugs is even more fatal than alcoholism. The reason for this is because the body has been subjected to constant use of a substance that it shouldn’t have been. Hence the body has to be freed of its dependency on these drugs, which is done by the Drug Detox program that is followed by these centers.

Everything is possible, if you are positive and have the will power to go for it. Let me tell you a joke on positivity.

Once the wife of an alcoholic came to a church and met the priest. She said, “Father, my husband is dying of alcoholism. He is not realizing it. The doctors have advised him not to drink but he doesn’t care. Would you please speak to him?”

The father agreed.

The next day, The man came to meet the priest. The priest took out a glass of alcohol and a packet of live worms. He dropped the live worms into the galss and the worms died instantly and then smiled at the man as if proving a point. He asked the man, “What did you learn, my son?”.

The man replied, “I have understood father?”. The priest was happy. He said, “That is good son. Now what did you understand?”.

The man said, “I understood that drinking alcohol, kills all worms and germs in my stomach like it did in this glass. So I should not quit drinking?”

This is what a banner in an alcoholic’s room read like -

As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would
have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) – bacteria found in faeces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a
purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health

Therefore, it’s better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.