I don't want him to find out.

[jedikuonji]

We had a large convention at the hotel I work at recently. The event used reserve police officers as security. While on their rounds, one of the officers found a rather intoxicated 20 year old woman. The reservist notified the city police who came to have a talk with the woman.

The police decide that since she's being calm and not causing any problems they will just escort her to her room and let her sleep it off. I think many under 21 people would find this an excellent outcome, however this woman got very upset. Turns out she was at the convention with her fiance and didn't want to go back to her room because he'd find out she had been drinking and would be disappointed with her since she promised she wouldn't drink this year.

Eventually the police calm her down and she gives them her room number. They walk her up to the room and she thanks them, fully expecting them to leave. The police tell her to go ahead and go inside the room and they will head out. The woman gets really angry and starts yelling at the police. Again, things calm down and, surprise, she's not actually staying at the hotel, but at another near by hotel. At this point the police are kind of annoyed with the whole situation, but whatever, they tell her that they will go ahead and just drop her off at the other hotel and let her go, no charges.

Well, the woman flips out now that her master plan has come apart and starts freaking out about her fiance being disappointed. Then she decides that the only way out is to attack one of the officers and try to run. It didn't work out very well as she ended up cuffed and half dragged out of the hotel for a nice weekend getaway in jail.

While I can't confirm this, I'm pretty certain her fiance found out that she'd been drinking.

[Jester]

"Honey, I'm sorry, I had a few drinks. Forgive me?"

"Honey, I'm in jail for drunk and disorderly conduct. Come bail me out?"

Yep, the second one is definitely going to fly with the fiance so much better than the first one. Brilliant plan!

[BrenDAnn]

Yeah, and why do I get the feeling she's been in similar scenarios before? Something had to have happened in the past, for her to have to promise the fiance that she wouldn't drink. Well...that's my line of thought, anyway. Either way, yeah, fairly certain her fiance found out. Wow.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Yeah, and why do I get the feeling she's been in similar scenarios before? Something had to have happened in the past, for her to have to promise the fiance that she wouldn't drink. Well...that's my line of thought, anyway. Either way, yeah, fairly certain her fiance found out. Wow.

And if her fiance has any sense of self-worth, he'll dump her and find someone much better for him.

[blas]

If there's one thing I've learned from dating an alchy, and having a dad who drinks far too much as well..........after a while (even while sober), their judgement and thinking skills just aren't up to par as anyone else's, and these little "master plans" they concoct to either hide their drinking, hide the evidence of their drinking, or to make it appear like nothing happened..........they rarely ever work. And their usual "plan B" almost always includes something that will either get them arrested or at the very least, in some form of police contact.

Just trust me on this one. I have a dad who thinks he can get rid of all the empty beer cans and bottles before mom can find them (and he often forgets where he puts half of them), and I had a boyfriend whose solution was always to try to run off and hide when he was discovered drinking by police.

[Crossbow]

All I can say is I'm hoping you don't work at the hotel I was at for a convention a couple of weekends ago... I'd hate for this kind of idiot to be part of that con.

[vang]

If there's one thing I've learned from dating an alchy, and having a dad who drinks far too much as well..........after a while (even while sober), their judgement and thinking skills just aren't up to par as anyone else's, and these little "master plans" they concoct to either hide their drinking, hide the evidence of their drinking, or to make it appear like nothing happened..........they rarely ever work. And their usual "plan B" almost always includes something that will either get them arrested or at the very least, in some form of police contact.

*Especially* when it comes to judgement about something related to drinking. And they can confuse getting away with something for a little while as proof that they're clever. Or if they're not fooling anyone but no one's calling them on it right now. Nope, nah, that's them being so tricksy and outwitting everyone, which proves that it's okay they're drinking, because if they're being that clever about hiding it then they're in control. Right? Right? An *actual* alcoholic isn't that clever.

Dad ended up with that police contact hard. He was very clever at a lot of things, but when it came to alcohol his brain shut down. It turns out that driving with a DUI-expired license for over a year is not exactly a clever thing to do when you work on an air force base (civilian worker). They, you know, check IDs. He must have managed to BS for a while -- he knew everybody and was good at being buddies, it wasn't a particularly secure installation, and this was back maybe fifteen years ago when security was much looser anyway -- but eventually they insisted on seeing his ID.

I'm not sure exactly what he was thinking or how he planned to make this work, but he came home after failing to go to work and said he needed a ride on base. Again, this was a good while back, and security was much different then. I was able to do that regularly while in a stickered car, if he or Mom needed a ride. His explanation of what was up made absolutely no sense and it was obvious that he had Something up, but I'd given up getting a straight answer from him when he was in that mood. Whatever, it didn't sound like there was anything really up, just him being him and refusing to give a straight answer. I started getting more annoyed/nervous as we got there and he called out that I should take the north gate and not the south. "Traffic", in that sort of weasely tone.

And that's how I got to pull over to the side of the road while the military guards escorted Dad off, where he was handed over to the county police and then jail. The guard apologized to me, and my response was something along the line of "Sir, I don't know exactly what's going on, but right now I'm feeling pissed enough at being pulled into whatever this is that you don't need to apologize for *anything*. Whatever's going on, I'm sure you've got a very good reason." It just turned out that they insisted on seeing his license when he got there that morning, he claimed it was at home, and they told him that he couldn't come on base until he brought it back. And so I was recruited to get him onto base where he could... something. I still don't know exactly what the heck his master plan was, and how he thought getting onto base would make the guards forget their ultimatum. I don't think he had any plan aside from getting to work and hoping it went away, either.

Upshot was that along with being put in jail overnight, he lost his job, because.. well, come on. You pull that crap on the nice guards, you don't get to keep your job, no matter how long you've been working there.

(For the record, I also didn't know he was driving on an expired license. I knew about the DUI, and drove him to the class he had to go to in order to get his license back a few times. Then he stopped going and in retrospect lied his face off about being done, then a few months later had me drive to a more distant DMV office that was probably him trying to con them into getting his license back. I knew it all sounded weird, but he always had these reasons that even when they were valid were so twisty and 'clever' that Mom and I had kind of given up caring so long as they weren't obviously trouble. And giving him his due, they almost never were. That whole mess was at least not the norm.)

[Redbeard]

....Atlanta, by chance?

[jedikuonji]

This was in Iowa.

[Crossbow]

This was in Iowa.

So not the one I was at. Ok.

[BrenDAnn]

Oh, jedi...Sadly enough, the fact that it happened in the great state I live in doesn't surprise me in the least. Then again, I work in a town that goes through an astonishing amount of 18 and 24 packs of beer every night. Yeah. The store I work at could be sold and turned into a damn liquor store, and whoever ran it would profit like crazy. Just saying.