Day drinkers at Epcot upset about relocation of a trash can

I too am in recovery approaching two years sober and what Brian Noble said is so true.

Alcoholics are wired different and normal drinkers simply can't grasp how an alcoholic mind works over the obsession to drink or the phenomena of craving alcohol. Its cunning, baffling and powerful to the point that normal drinkers just can't relate. And that's ok.

I can share my experience about my many WDW visits during the height of my alcoholism over a good 15-year period. Yea, I was drunk most of my time at WDW. And I always found a way to get drunk in a park, resort or even on the monorail sipping out of a water bottle filled with vodka. I wrote the book on sneaking alcohol into a park. But that's what alcoholics do and how our minds are wired.... we will always find a way.

I was a good drunk. If you were standing next to me in a park, you would have no idea I was smashed. So, I guess it was good that I was functional and able to maintain my composure. But that was me in all facets of my life when drunk. You normalize everything.

And don't get me wrong...I had some great times enjoying my vacation at WDW drunk. I certainly didn't drink for the taste...it was all about the effect and how it made me feel.

But while I don't regret the past, nor do I wish to shut the door on it, my life in sobriety is unequivocally better now than even my best day drunk. Thats the beauty of sobriety. Want to talk about something powerful that only an alcoholic can relate to? The feeling of freedom of being able to go to Epcot, walk around, truly enjoy myself and yet not have any obsession or desire whatsoever to pick up a drink. It's best gift in the world.

Jeff:

I can say with absolute certainty that Magic Kingdom IS far more magical with a cocktail or three.

Edited that for me. It definitely is nice to have a drink while walking around MK on those rare occasions it can happen.

Whether or not someone drinks alcohol is always interesting to me, or soda, or if they eat meat or not. I enjoy their stories about the how and why. For me, it has been an interesting journey from cheap college beer drinking to sipping on expensive bourbon. I always have at least one drink when I visit EPCOT because they usually have something good rotating in and out, but I have always enjoyed that despite all the talk about how heavy drinking is there, it's never the drunk atmosphere so many think it is.

99er:

all the talk about how heavy drinking is there, it's never the drunk atmosphere so many think it is.

I worked Epcot Main Entrance for three Food & Wine seasons. In those three years, there were exactly two drunk guest situations that were bad enough for me to remember. And only one of those two guests jumped in the lagoon!

I'll never understand how EPCOT gets such a bad wrap when it comes to drinking when you almost surely won't encounter anything, but I am almost guaranteed to see a drunken mess at any NFL/MLB game or HHN on each visit.

Walt Disney:

..."Because that brings in a rowdy element. That brings people that we don’t want"

Disney hates people of all income brackets who wish to imbibe.

Good thing he's dead and the parks are Under New Management.

/ducks

He is rotating in his grave (presumably on something like a bbq spit given how often he does that). Or urn. Or cryogenic dewar.