That's called a blackout
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That’s the term I would use. Extreme alcohol abuse, or some sort of neurological disorder. In either case he should be examined by medical professionals, and steps should be taken so he doesn’t harm himself or others.
I've heard that meth is a helluva drug.
For Gregg Phillips, it's any given Sunday.
My dad was an alcoholic for fifty years. Learn to recognize the signs. Teleporting to a Waffle House is a big one.
For those of you Internet folks who do not know about the Awful Waffle...the waffle house is a magical restaurant that exists in the South to primarily help the government estimate how bad hurricane damage has effected the local community. As a side benefit, it also serves as a place to cure hangovers with greasy food and mediocre coffee.
And we love them for it.
There is no problem in your life that doesn't seem smaller when you walk into a Waffle House. For some, it's the comfort food. For others, the object lessons.
And for the rest of us, it's watching others arrive at the Waffle House and have them make the worst possible decisions in their entire life in the parking lot, for some reason.
I think those are part of the "object lessons" curriculum.
I'm desperate for some scattered and smothered has browns now, but I'm in Wyoming. Thank goodness for teleportation.
Once I took my wife, then girlfriend, to a Waffle House. She ordered a BLT and hash browns.
They gave her an odd look, but acquiesced. A short while later, they brought out a serving of hash browns into which they had mixed bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
... but acquiesced
That doesn't sound like the Waffle House I know.
Dunno what to tell you.
Scattered smothered covered chunked and topped!
Depending on where you are in Wyoming, we have them down here in Colorado. Looks like closest to you might be Fort Collins.
I thought we had a lot in Texas until we went to the Mississippi coast for vacation. Literally every 2-3 miles there was a Waffle House.
"Teleporting is no fun”
Yeah, you wake up feeling nauseous, dehydrated and with a massive headache.
"The aliens! They poured Vodka all over me and drove my car into a ditch! It was the aliens I tell ya"
How much you wanna bet his car "teleported" there too?
One minute I’m ordering my drink and the next I’m 50 miles away 8 hours later at a waffle house with 5 people I’ve never met before.
It can’t be explained.
He also can't explain why his butt is sore and he has "NO HOMO" written in Sharpie marker on his right cheek.
This isn't even a new euphemism for blackout DWI. From what I've read teleportation and alien abductions stories are not uncommon excuses.
I'm guessing Ambien
I'm guessing alcohol.
I'm guessing both!
By your powers combined...
Whoa! Captain Planet reference in the wild? Love it.
oh man. cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, caffeine, um. im blanking. what should the fifth addicteers power be. I know drugs covers a lot and the term could cover it all but im trying to hit the most popular stuff. maybe just split drugs into weed and coke?
Sugar…
thats tough as it technically a food if possibly the worst form of it. I was since I wrote the comment thinking drugs could be split between uppers and downers. maybe they could be fraternal twins. Like everyones personality could reflect their thing.
Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol are all drugs though
yeah. drugs covers a lot.
More likely alcohol, but Ambien could definitely do that. Amazes me that the stuff is legal.
Meth.
You just know SNL is gonna have a skit tonight on this.
The "maple syrup" he puts on his waffles.
