Seriously dude, it's 9:30 am.....

[Old-Time-Lifter]

On the way to work (was actually about 9:15) a delivery truck pulls up beside me at a stoplight and the guy driving tips up a bottle. I take a look over and the guy is sucking down a big draw on a pint of vodka. he proceeds to take another hit before the light changed.

Nine in the freaking morning and the guy is sucking down straight vodka like water..... dude you got a problem there...

[InternetTuffGuy]

I would have called the police. Hope he doesn't kill somebody.

[Old-Time-Lifter]

I would have called the police. Hope he doesn't kill somebody.

The thought crossed my mind to call the cops.

[InternetTuffGuy]

The thought crossed my mind to call the cops.

Somebody hitting the sauce that early is probably a functioning alcoholic, if there is such a thing. Maybe he will be fine but I don't like to take chances. My brother was hit head on by a drunk driver. That has stuck with me pretty well. Fortunately his Crown Vic held up against her compact. She buried her whole front end under his. It's amazing she didn't kill herself.

[Simpske]

Its been a while since I've been lit up in the morning, not behind the wheel of a truck mind you. Usually on the tailgate of my truck while fishing for cat along the Mississippi.

[jeffaus]

I used to work with German guy named Helmut about 30 years ago. I used to pick him up for work every morning. He was a single 40 something y.o bloke. Every morning I would walk in his front door and pick him off the floor where he had fallen the night before. He would be drinking on the way to work.

Now this bloke was an Overhead crane driver, so he used to move 800 ton billets of steel. Used to take 30 minutes to get up to his little control position and about the same to come down. So he used to take his lunch up there and pi#s in a bottle if he needed to go. His lunch was always a liquid lunch and the dude was drunk 24 hours a day. But he could drop a 800 ton billet of steel on a dime, but was just hopeless with anything else. His output of movements of billets was legendary among the other crane drivers.

A couple of years after I left that company, I heard that he had died from some alcohol related disease. I don't know how people can function being drunk all the time.

[frozensparky]

I'm not one to call police but for something like this I wouldn't hesitate.

[Brackneyc]

I would have called the police. Hope he doesn't kill somebody.

This^^. Fck drunk drivers.

[beachguy498]

If I see someone driving that is all over the place, I'll dial 911 and give them the plate number and general direction. Apparantly the police run the plates and wait for them at home if they can't find them on the road.

Back in the day, tons of ppl would be drinking first thing in the morning. In machine shops, the old timers brought booze in, in cough medicine bottles and pour it in their coffee. We had one guy that sold those little airline bottles, $2 each. He had his regulars and would go around at lunch and the late break with them in his shop apron pockets.

One guy, as late as 1995, he was good for a quart a day at work. He was married to the sister of a big shot, so he was protected. She was a heavy hitter as well. You could smell this guy from 30'. Body odor and cheap whiskey...

Some can function at a high level at work, no doubt about that. And years back, management looked the other way as long as nobody complained. Now, our safety crew has a breathalyzer in their office and if they ask, you have to submit to a test.