Not Sucky...But Weird!

[ElizabethBennet]

I was at B&N yesterday, at the poetry/essays section sitting at the little chair collection there reading, totally minding my own buisness. A guy comes and sits down accross from me and is reading. After about 10 mins, I look up and see him DRINKING A BEER. At 11:00 in the morning.
I quietly found an employee and told them about it, I don't know what happened because I left right after.

Has anyone else seen something like this? Or someone drinking at a time/place that was inapproiate?

[jedimaster91]

The library I work at opens at 9am. Some of our regulars are already so soused by then that you can smell the waves of alcohol eminating from them even if you are standing across the room from them. But as long as they're not causing trouble, we let them be.

[Kiarna]

I have seen people drinking early in the morning. However as my mother always said they may work shift work and this could be their 5pm time for a drink after work.

[GingerBiscuit]

when we're on holiday we will sometimes have a drink earlyish in the mornings. That is not a warning sign in and of itself. If the person looks dirty, is stumbling around a lot and slurring their words, or looks like they really don't take care of themselves and is drinking before 11am- issues.

[ElizabethBennet]

He definitely didn't seem drunk (like I said it was 10 mins+ before I even noticed it) and he wasn't causing any trouble or anything.

I used to work 3rd shift and would come home and have a beer at like 7AM all the time, but I never would have thought to bring a beer to a store or something and drink it there.

Maybe I'm just sheltered.

[Nyoibo]

Does it count if it's because you haven't finished drinking from last night?

[Kiwi]

Does it count if it's because you haven't finished drinking from last night?

I was gonna ask the same thing.....

[blas]

Not so much recently, but back when I was a trainer, at least two days a week my coworkers and I would hit up the 3rd shift bar after work for a couple of beers. We never got drunk or stayed any more than an hour or two, though.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I wonder if B&N would allow him in there with the beer. They do have their own cafe with Starbucks beverages and I don't think they'd respond well to somebody carrying alcohol around their establishment.

If the guy wasn't three sheets to the wind, I wouldn't think much of it. But then again I live in a state where it is common to see people totally lit by early afternoon.

[PepperElf]

After about 10 mins, I look up and see him DRINKING A BEER. At 11:00 in the morning.

i'm not going to get into the time-of-day thing but... I don't know of any B&N that sells alcohol. If he did buy it there then... eh, he's got no life but not much more you can do about that.

But if the B&N doesn't sell booze... then he's violating "open container" laws most likely. only place i know of in the US where you can take your beer out of the bar and drink it publicly is Burbon Street in New Orleans.

and for people being drunk at the library... "Drunk in pub-lick!" Hey if Tater Salad can talk to the cops over it why can't they?

[cawaker]

i'm not going to get into the time-of-day thing but... I don't know of any B&N that sells alcohol. If he did buy it there then... eh, he's got no life but not much more you can do about that.

But if the B&N doesn't sell booze... then he's violating "open container" laws most likely. only place i know of in the US where you can take your beer out of the bar and drink it publicly is Burbon Street in New Orleans.

and for people being drunk at the library... "Drunk in pub-lick!" Hey if Tater Salad can talk to the cops over it why can't they?

Las Vegas too, the strip mainly.

[JustADude]

Las Vegas too, the strip mainly.

And I believe, though Jester could verify this more solidly, there's also Key West.

Basically, most of the places that are considered 'grown-up* playgrounds' tend to be more lax about stuff like that, as it encourages people to check out the rest of the area instead of having to stay holed up in a single bar while they drink, thus getting them to spend their money in the other places in the area.


*I'd say 'adult', but the mental images 'adult playground' conjures are just plain wrong... and fun... but mostly wrong.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

But if the B&N doesn't sell booze... then he's violating "open container" laws most likely. only place i know of in the US where you can take your beer out of the bar and drink it publicly is Burbon Street in New Orleans.

As mentioned before, Las Vegas allows this too. Probably not only on the Strip, but on Fremont Street too at least.

There are lots of places that will sell big-ass margaritas in plastic souvenir glasses. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas I see people out and about with them all the time.

[CaroPhoenix]

The old social rule (back before the late 1960's at the very least) was that if one drank before 10 or 11 AM in the morning, they were considered an alcoholic. Any "respectably brought up man or woman" knew that drinking in the early morning hours (after 6 AM and before 10 AM, say) was just wrong and if one needed that extra "pick-me-up", then well ... really ... they're wastrels and should be avoided at all costs.

It was the same if women were caught drinking beer. Only "loose" women did that too. But one has to remember the time frame these rules were made in and times do change, but not all attitudes about it.

I too would be shocked to see someone drinking beer before 11 AM in the morning as all the people I knew who did that had the "love of the liquor" before the love of anything else, so to speak

[Lingering Grin]

He definitely didn't seem drunk (like I said it was 10 mins+ before I even noticed it) and he wasn't causing any trouble or anything.

I used to work 3rd shift and would come home and have a beer at like 7AM all the time, but I never would have thought to bring a beer to a store or something and drink it there.

Maybe I'm just sheltered.

yup I've done that too.
once worked a 23 hour shift, after which me and a coworker buddy of mine went home and divided up a case of beer...
we were pretty much drunk by 10am, but after a shift like that, we needed it lol