It’s about 7:00 and I just got the kids off to school, I’ve already had two cups of coffee, so I don’t want more right now. I’m thirsty and all I’ve got in the fridge is Kool-aid, that’s too sweet right now, Milk, I’m not in the mood for it, Juice boxes, they’re for the kids, and Iced tea, I never like that.
But all the way in the back, I found 4 wine coolers. We bought them for some friends that came to visit and the wine coolers are left over.
The cons of drinking now are:
It’s early in the morning
I jut drunk very easily, it only takes one for a buzz.
There’s no one else here to babysit me when plastered
The pros are:
I don’t have to share
I get drunk very easily, that’ll get rid of my bad mood
There’s no one here to yel at me for drinking so early in the morning.
If I get drunk, I have lots of time to recover, kids won’t be home until 3:30.
I say, have 1 each morning for the rest of the week. That way you’ll have a buzz every day, but won’t ever be drunk. And you won’t need to make sure you recover by 3:30.
also note:
“Beer then liquor, never sicker.
Liquor then beer, never fear.
Coffee then coolers, uh, during schoolers?”
I had a few beers for breakfast once, on a day when I had no reponsibilities. It was an interesting experience, and I spent the morning in a benign giggly haze, before the hangover kicked in about lunchtime. It’s not an experience I’d care to repeat, however, hence my advice.
I guess you are right about the social stigma, tho’. I think if I were to come accross a drunk person at 8:00am versus 8:00pm, I would be more inclined to think that person is an alcoholic.
Oh, hell. My brother and I had a garage sale a few years ago, and when business got slow around 9 or 10 a.m., we decided to pop a few open. We even sent out for pizza, which was amazing that we could find a shop open that morning.
So there were were, on a hot summer morning, drinking beer in our driveway. I’d suddenly realized that we’d crossed the line into white-trashiness, but for some reason, we didn’t care.
"One of the conventions which bores me a lot is the ukase about not opening a bottle until the sun be over the yardarm. Well, this might have been all right for the Royal Navy; failing rum they always had buggery and the lash to be going on with…I have a robust relative who fancies a bottle of Rioja: more fragile a flower, I like a glass of white, or perhaps a drop of the Special Old Pale, the Very one.
“It could, I suppose, be a bad idea to drink at breakfast-time in the damp temperate climate of England, where the metabolism is slowed, but in a drier atmosphere, and it does not much matter whether it be warm or cold, I can’t for the life of me see why one should not drink at breakfast time.”
– Nicolas Freeling, from “I Long for my Porridge,” THE COOK BOOK, 1972.
I don’t think Mr. Freeling would approve of a wine cooler at ANY time of day, though.
Drinking in the morning of a day off wasn’t totally unheard of while I was in the Army. I remember several Saturday mornings going over to a friends room (already crowded with other people) and we’d sit and watch cartoons and drink coffee with Bailey’s Irish Cream. Though usually the hard liquor waited until at least early afternoon.
That said, I’m in the same boat as Spit was; I work nights. A few months ago I came home and sat down to browse the boards about 9:00AM and realised I was all out of Pepsi and other non-watery things to drink. I wound up having a B & J fuzzy navel wine cooler (yuck). Helped put me right to sleep.
I’d caution to at least hydrate yourself with some water first, unless you’re the kind that gets up every couple of hours in the middle of the night to have a glass of water or two.
