Tips For A Sober and Joyous Holiday Season – Allow Yourself Independence

Much like #3;

4) Do not go to any drinking occasion unless you have your own independent means of getting home. That means take your own car, or have the taxi fare in your pocket, or make sure the busses are running all night. Getting trapped in a party because your ride does not want to leave until three am. is a slow and gruesome form of torture. You need the ability to be
able to say “Well I feel a little queasy, so I am going home.” They do not need to know that it is your head, not your stomach, that is playing up.

Know your own glass, fill it yourself…