Hmmm as I am thinking today yes it has a skull and cross bones, ask me again tomorrow!

By this I mean I never know how or when the thought would zip into my mind. I think if I was tempted I would leave the party, pub or wherever.

I have been around it many, many times. Yeah, sometimes I slipped, others I didn't.

My sister who RARELY drinks at all, had some sweet tea infused with vodka on Thanksgiving that she and her friend were drinking. YUK!!!

I was telling my brother about it and he said "Why the hell would you wanna ruin the sweet tea with that crap?" and I laughed and said "I was thinking, why the hell would you wanna ruin the vodka with tea?" :)

I certainly woulnd't buy a bottle and keep it in the house to test myself to keep it unopened, but I think I'm okay being in it's presence.... :)

getting sober in a house i share with my wife who likes a drink means its always been around
so i don't know if that has made it more difficult or not
Ive always believed I'm never more than 5 Min's away from alcohol even if it wasn't in the house so hopefully it wont effect my recovery

Page 84 in the most unread book in AA:

"And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone-even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality-safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our (my) experience. This is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition."

The book says my experience with this question, the best.

don't want to test it but i think i would leave befor i let my mind get into it.

btw joe tex your on a roll today lol

No. I try to avoid it like a heroin addict avoids going around people shooting up. Kinda hard to do at this time of year especially-but I need to do this for now. I don't see this as a big deal as I am so grateful to be alive and have a "disease" I can manage. I betcha if a cancer patient was told that to cure their cancer they need to stay away from, lets say, people drinking coffee, think they would do it too?

I have, at home, about 8 bottles of hard liquor gathering dust, never liked the stuff much. I love beer and wine though, so I do not keep those around.

I made it through Thanksgiving, held at my house, where beer and wine were served, and had no white knuckles at all. I imagine the obsession has passed. Truly thankful for that.

However, I don't think you'll catch me out at a bar or club anytime soon. I still carry a healthy fear of my wayward thoughts and this cunning, baffling and powerful disease.

I have been doing quizzes in bars (pubs for those over here in the UK!) for a year and a half now, once or sometimes twice a week.

I go with people from AA and people who are not alcoholics so drink.

Not once in that time has it ever crossed my mind to have a drink or have I ever looked at people drinking and had any reaction to it.

The obsession to drink has been removed for me and as phil608 posted I do not have to fight alcohol. I am free.

I can go anywhere I like as long as I am in fit spiritual condition.

I do on a regular basis. Knowing that I have it in my shop for family and friends just makes me stronger. I know I will never drink alcohol again, if I do I will die.

This is where I use my selfish pride to my advantage, as it is almost, if not as powerful as my urge to drink. I've started telling my friends that I have quit drinking and am an alcoholic. Therefore, when I am around them and there is drinking, even if I want to drink I don't want to lose face. It's a weird dynamic but works for now. Now, put me alone in a room with a bottle of wine, I am not sure I could trust myself... fortunately I don't run into those situations!

The liquor stores will not close because I got sober. @ any rate I am off to the river boat for some gambling fun tonight.
I am always around alcohol and drugs. Mind altering chemicals are just not an option. I suppose my obsession has been lifted to, for over a year now, bet. Lates mates

Absolutely, I am a recovered alcoholic and the 10th step promises are a constant in my life. If I maintain a fit spiritual condition, I will never drink again.

I can go where I please and never be afraid of drinking, this is not arrogance or stupidity -it's freedom!