On 2017-01-23 9:42 AM, Gary wrote:

> Good point there. I've known a few hard core ones. An airline bottle
> or even a flask would be a joke to them. A small drink only gets
> them started and won't last long at all.
>
> I work with a "binge drinker" now. For him, it's all or nothing.
> He will go days or even weeks with nothing and everything is fine.
> Give him just one beer though and he goes nuts. The one will turn
> into at least a case of beer and an all-nighter. Next day, you
> never see him as he stays home sick as crap all day.
>
> This happens every single time. Just one beer sets it off.
>

The guy two doors down from me is a big time drunk. It is hard to tell
when he is drunk because he drinks all the time. He starts early in the
day. One morning I was coming back from my morning ride about 9-9:30 and
he called me over and offered me a beer. I said thanks but it is too
early for me. His reply was "You can't drink all day if you don't start
early". One day he asked me to come over and run his mini backhoe for
him. He has this very expensive toy that he cannot operate himself. When
I went back to the job site in his back 40 he had a cooler full of beer
and there were 8 empties. Last summer he was here for my wife's
birthday party and brought his own beer, thank goodness. He left 18
empties sitting beside his chair.... and the party only went on for
about three hours.


He had a good job in the aircraft business but was "laid off" last
summer. That left me wondering if there was a staff reduction or if
there had been a problem with his drinking. I had long been concerned
that he might get picked up for DUI on his way to work in the morning
because you simply cannot metabolize that much alcohol overnight.