What do you think of this situation?

[Sonya]

MIL, SIL and I went to a brewery last week and had lunch. It's a nice place that serves excellent food and brews it's own brand of beer. You see a lot of families as well as college kids. It's not a bar, although they have one.

Now there was a table near us with a dad and his probably 5yo son. The kid and dad ate lunch together. Dad seemed like a nice guy. It was Wed. at 1pm.

The place has 5 oz trial size glasses of it's beer. They serve 8 different kinds of beer. Dad had one of each. That's 40 oz of beer. It looked really strange to see this man with 8 glasses of beer in front of him; there wasn't really enough room at the table for them and the food.

They weren't bothering anyone, kid looked happy, both well taken care of, but it was a lot (IMHO) of beer to drink at lunch with the kid there. And who drove home? I guess they might have walked, there are houses nearby.

I'm trying to be as neutral as possible, I don't want knee-jerk reactions. I just want to know, what do you think?

 

[zurgswife]

Ouch!!!Hard not to be to judgemental for that situation......I probably would have thought the same thing.....To much to drink and drive.........

 

[Cindy B]

Are you talking about John Harvards? My local one has the sampler, and I have had it.. it is quite a bit of beer.

We can walk home from it.. but I guess it also depends on how long they stayed afterward, did the food absorb the alcohol, etc...

 

[Kermit]

I guess it's possible that his situation allowed him to do it safely, but I'm inclined to believe that an un-safe situation was much more likely. I'd want to have more control if I were in charge of a small child. Even if they were walking home, it would be nice if he had good reflexes.

 

[SilverLily]

I know several people who can drink 40 ounces of beer (especially if they are eating along with it), and it doesn't seem to affect them at all.

 

[Judy from Boise]

another variable in the situation is body weight.

 

[Serena]

Personally, and this is just my opinion. I don't think anyone needs to drink that much alcohol in front of their child. Especially when they are responsible for getting that child home.

 

[Sonya]

No, Cindy, it wasn't the place you said, It's called Freestate.

I'd say the man was in good shape, med. height and weight.

40 oz, isn't that like almost 4 cans of beer?