I have worked many different types of jobs, most of them based on customer service. I have come across the same thing in at least three of them and I am starting to be more conflicted every time it happens.
Drunk people! I mean why do you get drunk and then go out to shop, or pay bills, and fucking drive! I mean why?? I just served a man who couldn’t even fill out paper work and had me do it because he said I would do it faster. The main reason I know he was drunk was because of the smell.. His speech was slurred, he was super slow.. I had to tell him the same thing a few times before he could understand. And all this time I know he drove here.. and when he leaves hes going to get back into his car and drive away drunk.. possibly killing someone on his way home.. could even be my family as the victim because we all live here in halifax.. So what is a girl to do? Stand by and let your customer leave and drive drunk or what?
I also used to get drunk people in my drive through when I worked fast food. Sadly i even knew some of the drunkards coming through which was EMBARRASSING!
But reading the news, keeping up with the times.. and basically getting older and smarter and caused me now to have a huge conflict when I am in this situation. I feel unable to do or say anything without losing a customer for my place of work, with out embarrassing them, without causing myself stress. But they could kill someone.. people please just don’t drink and drive! —Sick of people
This article appears in Aug 15-21, 2013.
Without knowing the type of car/license plate, I don’t know what you could do aside from following them outside to get that information or offering to call them a cab instead. You could call the police and let them know the situation, where you are, and that someone is potentially about to get into a car and drive drunk. If I were in your shoes that’s what I would do.
Hoist is correct, the police suggest you call 911 to report a drunk driver.
In NS do bars have the right to limit the amount of alcohol, or cut a person off if too intoxicated?Can’t a bar be sued if a drunk driver kills someone or themselves after drinking from a bar?
Just wondering,I don’t drive or go to bars very often.
Bars are legally obligated to cut-off someone who is drunk or ‘too drunk’. Essentially, a bar doesn’t have to serve anyone nor let anyone in for whatever reason that is not deemed discriminatory (race, sex, age, colour, etc.).
Thanks for answering my question Biscuit.
but if he calls the police on these people doesn’t that make him a rat?
Good point Reg.
It might be his loved one’s life he saves from that drunk driver.
I would give the inebriated person a choice, either I call for a taxi and you come back for car later, or I call the police as I know you’re not fit to drive and don’t want anyone hurt. Let them decide their own fate.
Nope. I don’t like the police as an institution. Individual cops I am sure are OK. This is my opinion and I know many disagree. However, if I let someone do something that I know might end up with other people getting seriously hurt or killed (and then something happened) I would have a hard time living with that. So I would call the cops because they are the only people you can contact who are authorized to pull a car over and prevent an accident. Cops are great when they are working to help society and keep things safe.
Rat is something you call your schoolmate when he tattles to a teacher. OP is a concerned citizen.
And this is a message from concerned children’s advertisers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2olyA-_XMr…
Hoist in this day and age when so much more is known about the repercussions of childhood bullying latter in life. we as parents and school officials must to do a better job teaching our children and teenagers that ‘ratting’ isn’t a bad thing to do. Telling a teacher on a bully can save the life of a young bully victim from suicide. Similar to calling the police on a drunk driver, hoping to prevent an horrific accident and loss of life.
You’re frustrated and you have decided to blame alcohol; wow.
Maybe he had someone there who was driving him. I’ve done customer service for years. I know how you feel OP, the best thing to do is adopt an alter ego when working. Calling the cops if the person is driving is a good idea though.
Calling the police on a drunk driver is a civil and moral duty, not a rat, not even close to being a rat.
DRUNK, OR JUST ANOTHER BITCHER?
“The main reason I know he was drunk was because of the smell. His speech was slurred, he was super slow. I had to tell him the same thing a few times before he could understand.” Sick of people
“Sick of people,” and all the commenters on this thread for that matter, have made an unfounded assumption: How did she know that the customer was drunk?
There is, of course, the technical question. Does “Sick of people” have a blood-alcohol kit and, if not, how did she know that his blood-alcohol exceeded the legal limit? Further, there might have been underlying neurological conditions which might account for his behaviour. Those afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome, for example, burst out with scatological remarks but cannot help themselves. On the other hand, he might be just stupid, a widespread affliction.
Indeed, it seems to me that “Sick of people” could just be describing many people on this site. No doubt, if one could smell them, they would smell badly; their speech, if one could hear them, would no doubt be slurred; and, of course, lord knows how many times I’ve had to tell them the same thing before they could understand.
No, Sick of people, what you’re looking at here is just another Birch regular. Don’t be upset. Pour him another drink. Have one yourself, if you like.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I don’t know why people use that whole ‘rat’ thing like they’re mafioso connected or already in prison. Too many wigger movies I says.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBaWjCxjLmI
Freakin’ Wonderbread Wops need to spend less time watching HBO and more time with their goomars getting their weasels greased. Fughedaboudit.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iAsYTDvKZ0o/TzLv…
Oh op.. op honey we are so on the same page.. Now i like a good drink. At least as much as anybody else. And I don’t like to drink alone so I always go downtown to a friend’s house or, less often I take those friends to a bar.
Sometimes I take my car.
Now imagine.. I planned to have two drinks and dinner and instead I end up having four drinks and no dinner. What do i do?
I cab it home but before i do, I leave a note in the windshield of my car saying “Look i’m drunk. I chose not to drive because I don’t want to get fined, lose my car or kill anybody. Please don’t ticket me”
And I’ve never been ticketed. At least under those circumstances.
It’s also a good idea to have a safehouse. The home of a friend or family member where you can park your car before going out. If you’re sober and want to drive home, fine! But if you’re not, your car is safe overnight. And if they’re a really good friend, so are you since you can stay there.
Or at the very fucking least, SLEEP IN YOUR CAR. It sounds greasy and yeah, ok. A cop or two might knock on your windshield and ask what the hell you’re doing. And you can simply explain you don’t want to leave your car but you sure as hell don’t want to drive it.
Most of this sounds ridiculous. And it is. So PLAN AHEAD. Take finite amounts of cash if you don’t want to drink, take the bus if you think that isn’t going to work and for the love of FUCK, everything on this list is less stupid than driving home.
I use the word “rat” facetiously in this bitch because of the “Good Luck” bitch in which OP was a friend of somebody with some questionable hobbies and was going tell his friend’s parole officer about them. Some posters referred to the OP as a rat. I’m not sure if it was a joke or not.
I guess if you don’t know the person committing a crime, it’s your moral duty to report it. However if the person is a friend, you’re a rat if you report it.
Ivan, I wish Trayvon and George could have joined a Twerking class together before their unfortunate incident 🙁
If only, as a species, we could learn to resolve our differences through interpretive dance.
Just another Utopian Dream. *Le sigh*
I got, and enjoyed, your facetiousness Reg.
Jesus H., Biscuit, thanks for making me piss myself laughing – you fucking owe me an unused Depends – bahawhawhawhaw!!! Man, I lubs you, Biscuit Boyo, you damn funny.
Fuck, I wish my pancake ass could twerk!
As near as I can tell the only interpretation of twerking is:
“Here is my balloon knot. Come feast upon it”
I used to work in a museum in England. One day, a prominent community member and supporter of the museum came in, drunk as a skunk, and wrote the biggest cheque I’ve ever seen anybody write to an institution like that. I was really conflicted about what to do- took it up to the office, attached a very tactful note for my manager- later the wife came in to see if he was there/had been in and she confirmed that they did in fact intend to make that donation (and was irritated to hear that he had been drunk). I’ve encountered drunks in museums before but I had never had a super generous drunk before, I was super nervous about that cheque!
I’ve worked drive thru before and I don’t think that I ever encountered a drunk in that context, but maybe I’m inattentive.
I saw a museum in England once. I’m surprised by our coincidence.
High five! 🙂
OB then there are those like an acquaintance of mine who was reported to police for slurring his words & staggering through the mall.
Concerned citizen(s) like yourself called the police , who proceeded to stop him took him to the police station. they absolutely refused to believe he has a brain disorder that screws with his speech & balance . As far as they were concerned ” he’s definately on something” But does not mean he is drunk. He was detained treated like a criminal , tossed into the back of a paddy wagon & taken ‘downtown’
Not a very nice experience simply because you are handicapped !
So while I agree with you & others that contacting the authorities may be the right thing to do…. BEING CERTAIN of your allegations is also an important part of that IMO
2 dislikes right off the top…. Looks like the lynch mobs reading the bitches today while practicing their noose tying skills ! lel
if I had a brain disorder like your friends, I would have only one such incident happen to me before I would buy a medic-alert bracelet. and most probably have a friend accompany to make sure I didn’t fall thru a plate glass window.
More, the OP did mention that they smelled alcohol but I also had the same thought when I first read the bitch, about alternate reasons that the person my be behaving ‘abnormally’.
Definitely can’t sleep in your car… trust me you WILL get a fine. If they find you of course.
Correction, I did customer service for years, years ago.