What Is An Alcoholic

I’m the first one to admit that I do not mind a beer or two, or three, or many more and toasts that bring on cheer. At each Sunday bar-be-cue while the kids go off to play can after can is opened up, so beer wastes the day away. But one day when out fishing from the banks of Shady Creek, I was asked for information that my young bloke yearned to seek. From someone in such tender years his mind can be rather slick and so he’s always curious - Dad ‘what’s an alcoholic?’ I had to make a clear example that my Son will understand I took a sip out of my can, and spoke the way I planned. ‘See those four trees over there,’ before I then chose to add, ‘alcoholics would see eight’ - ‘But there’s only two trees Dad.’