I went to a co-workers party, she had a hall, DJ, Karaoke, etc, and lots of booze. I found out that another co-worker turns in to a trailer trash crazy woman when exposed to too much alcohol. It was a bad scene and there is continuing drama occurring.
I normally don't attend parties. I was the soberest person there, I think, although I did loosen up enough to show off my lousy dancing.
So, a word to the wise: Don't go to drinking parties with co-workers!!!
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
Not to put too fine a point on it, I think we're talking about an intoxicated person hitting on someone else's significant other, because puking in public is certainly a spectacle, it's not going to create ongoing drama. As the child of a father who died rather un-prettily from alcoholism, acute and chronic, I'd go so far as to say the person Emergent is talking about, if has any sort of additional history of losing control that way, some honest self-evaluation on her part would be in order.
Where I work, my co-workers are more like family. We'll go out together, get drunk, and laugh about it later. We text and call each other when we're not working. Go to each other's kids' birthday parties. Considering how much time we spend together and how small our unit is, it's hard not to get close. Now a couple of our doctors are having a crawfish boil with beer and margaritas for us this week. That is a different dynamic and I wouldn't be comfortable getting loose in front of them. Since I have to work that night so I couldn't drink and I don't eat crawfish, I had a good excuse to miss.
I would hope no one would go out and getting blind drunk. After all, we know the long term consequences! When I worked nights, we had a couple of bars t hat opened at 7am for us to have happy hour. A couple of drinks, wide-ranging and venting, then home to bed!
I pretty much socialize only wth my coworkers/former coworkers though there are only a handful of us. Getting together has gotten us through some very difficult times. We try to have 3 or 4 parties through out the year for whatever the reason may be retirement, birthday, seasonal... Our next will be a "lumber party" before the holidays start in November and ski season is upon us. Flannel will abound and it will be wonderful to be able to have some fun with the people I love and care about so much. Yes, there will be a little brown jug, but I don't anticipate any problems. We won't need to leave until the next morning. drinking and driving don't mix.
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Farawyn
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And some people master idiocy all on their own.
I'm sorry that happened to your daughter.