Eventually, just a few months before my 21st, I was given a drunk
in public ticket, and woke up
in jail
in a city 40 miles from my house (weird experience as I was still drunk after release) and I don't even know what happened besides what people told me (bad sign). All in all, alcohol was messing up my life, even though I only drank on the weekends, yet I had no clue. Alcoholism didn't cross my mind until my family intervened after this last ticket.