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The couple opposite have 14 bottles of wine in their recycling plus spirits every week.
This is £100 a week on booze but that's not important right now.
I have reason to believe she is drinking most of it as her husband left her to her drink problem.
My question is are they ever below the drink drive limit?
Of course they/she could neck it all on Saturday and not touch another drop all week. Even then would they be sober by Friday?
Well, this is going to get interesting.
If it was just her drinking that much over the weekend, I would expect her to be very ill or dead every weekend too. Even spread out over a week, two bottles of wine a night (ignore the spirits for now) will mean she will have a hard time claiming to be under the drink driving limit in the morning, assuming she can function at all.
For background, I knew _with certainty_ that my ex-wife was drink driving before we divorced. I was also very scared of what she would do if I called the police about it. In the end, I grew a pair and called them because I could handle her behaviour better than I could live with myself if she ran someone over or crashed and I had done nothing. The Police said they could do nothing unless they caught her.
Use your judgement.
The question is, are they cheap bottles or expensive?
If they are cheap, she is an alcoholic and no doubt drunk whilst driving.
If they are from M&S, Waitrose or Laithwaites, she just enjoys wine and will be perfectly fine when she drives her car.
So did you look in their recycling bin?
If so, I think the question I have is why did you?
I always take a skeg in peoples recycling bins and make snap judgements about them from the contents !
Rather than a generic " I think Mrs so and so is drink driving" you need to report it when she actually is - so if you see her leave the house in the car in the evening phone it in then with the number plate of the car. If they have a unit to spare they will try to intercept. I have done this once
Are you Martin sheen in staged?
God you must be a horrible neighbor to have.
I always take a skeg in peoples recycling bins and make snap judgements about them from the contents !
Fair comment - call the COVID Police she must have had a party !
God you must be a horrible neighbor to have.
Or actually a caring neighbour who wants to stop someone killing someone whilst driving a car drunk... you never know it might even help her if she does have addiction problems
Why - for trying to protect the community from a drunk driver?
So did you look in their recycling bin?
If so, I think the question I have is why did you?
Bottles go in a crate with no lid so it's perfectly clear what's in there. We put ours out once a month and me and Mrs Zip always comment on her bin when we go out.
if you see her leave the house in the car in the evening phone it in then with the number plate of the car.
If you are lucky, you might get double bubble if shes out on a non essential journey 😉
How long do you think booze stays in the system?
So people who enjoy a bottle of wine are invariably pissed when driving?
What a sack of shite.
2 bottles of wine would be 20 units of alcohol, and an average person metabolises 1 unit per hour.
(also this doesnt start immediately after your first sip, as it takes a while to get into your system).
So call it 21 hours? from starting to being fully sober. 3 hours in the late afternoon of complete sobriety after an evening drinking.
BUT depending on the person, 2 to 4 units will keep you under the English drink drive limit.
So if she starts with a glass for breakfast and spreads those two bottles roughly evenly over the ~16 waking hours, she MAY stay at a constant state of slightly buzzed, but never be over the limit.
How long do you think booze stays in the system?
One unit per hour approximately is flushed out of your system 9 or 10 units in a bottle of wine so 10 hours at least to leave the system. Drink a bottle in the evening your chances of being over the limit in the morning ( depending if scottish or english limit) are not small especially if you have a dram or two as well
A neighbour of ours was a secret drinker, she held down a high powered job, no idea how. Took her ages to get herself sorted out but apparently she s now ok.
Her car was a nightmare, dents in every panel. She also had a few accidents non car related, but alcohol fuelled.
She kept coming round for alcohol at breakfast time, really sad.
No real point In the story other than you never know what goes on behind closed doors, or curtains.
In my previous job I lived on site and all my neighbours were also my work colleagues.
Glass recycling bin day was always an eye opener as you walked to work. There were a few that quite clearly should have been putting a load in the car and binning at the supermarket! It's quite difficult looking across a meeting table and not thinking about the stash you saw outside that morning and not think "how are you functioning!?!".
thinking about the stash you saw outside that morning and not think “how are you functioning!?!”.
Tolerance acquired over many months/years, just enough to numb but not so much that you're incapable. A lot of effort is required to walk the fine line of functioning alcoholic, they are one serious emotional event away from a life on park benches and drinking white lightning/meths to satisfy the beast.
grahamt1980
Full MemberAre you Martin sheen in staged?
There were a lot of celebrity guests, but I don't remember Charlie's dad being in it!
she MAY stay at a constant state of slightly buzzed,
may she is a member of the Inebriati!
@FunkyDunc the OP does't mention anything about trying to help his neighbor. He's just an idiot who spies on his neighbors then gossips about them.
@FunkyDunc the OP does’t mention anything about trying to help his neighbor. He’s just an idiot who spies on his neighbors then gossips about them.
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To be fair this is true!
He’s just an idiot who spies on his neighbors then gossips about them.
TBF where I used to live had glass-recycling bins that were just open topped plastic boxes, so it wasn't hard to spot the folk who enjoyed a drink...
Maybe she is cooking a lot of casseroles.
I remember listening to the radio, and the presenters of whatever lunchtime radio 1 show it was literally saw David Bowie walk past their bit of the studio and managed to get him to pop in.
Edith Bowman: "So you just moved near to me, in Tottenham" (er, I think)
David Bowie: "Yes, I know, I've seen you"
Edith Bowman, completely starstruck. "OMG you've seen me in my street? And you knew it was me"
David Bowie: "Yes, you were putting out empty wine bottles. Lots and lots of empty wine bottles"
This isn't as good as that.
If you're concerned then report to the police.
If you're not prepared to do that then leave them be.
Unless you actually see her putting them all in, it could be her neighbours putting them in her recycling hiding the fact they are having illegal non sanctioned street parties that you’re not invited to. Hhhmmmm. Or are you?
This is why I only drink box wine.
BruceWee
Free MemberThis is why I only drink box wine.
You still have to get rid of the cardboard, unless you burn it 😉
Glad my bottle box has a snap top lid 😀
There were a lot of celebrity guests, but I don’t remember Charlie’s dad being in it!
Balls wrong sheen
and an average person metabolises 1 unit per hour.
although AIUI a person who drinks 2 bottles a night for many years is likely to have a higher metabolic rate at clearing alcohol than someone who rarely drinks.
I have reason to believe she is drinking most of it as her husband left her to her drink problem.
if she's with a new partner now, I'd suspect he's also a keen drinker - not much incentive for moving in with a drunk unless you are one too.
My question is are they ever below the drink drive limit?
are they driving? I'd say 1 person possibly, but getting unlikely unless they are very careful. Split between 2 people, yes - but starts to get tricky if they are out 7-7...
will mean she will have a hard time claiming to be under the drink driving limit in the morning,
The limit isn't about what you "claim to be" its a prescribed limit and you either are or are not over it. Its actually surprisingly hard to be over the English/Welsh limit purely by accident.
This is £100 a week on booze
Even if that is not between 2 people the financial outlay is probably less than many people spent in the pub over a week pre-lockdown...
...she's probably online right now saying, "I can't believe the guy across the street has yet another new bike. And these aren't even normal bikes. This guy is obsessed and spends thousands on them. I think he's a bit of a weirdo, as he seems like one of those health freaks who never drinks".
Balls Wrong Sheen
That's what he's called locally.
Bottles go in a crate with no lid so it’s perfectly clear what’s in there.
But you are counting them and also identifying the bottles of spirits. That's either savant behaviour or you need to stop picking over neighbours' recycling.
She's on the phone to her friends saying "You know I help to collect trash and put the bottles in the recycling yea, well that **** over the road keeps coming over and counting them"
Shit, I didn't know **** was a filtered word ****
What kind of amateur puts their empties in their own bin??
Also, do you live opposite Boris Johnson?
Bottles go in a crate with no lid
Where are you, I thought we were the only ones backward enough to be still doing that. I pick up tons of of bloody glass every day and there are houses where they'll be 4 full crates of wine bottles every 2 weeks, probably around 50 bottles! I went to one house on Wednesday, one box full of wine bottles, one box full of Special Brew bottles and sat on top of the crate full of other recycling two Metformin boxes. I just hope whoever is taking them isn't knecking the Special Brew. On another occasion the driver told me there was an assisted collection at one house meaning you go and get it from wherever they have it. I came back with a crate with a dozen 1 litre whisky bottles, no bloody wonder they need assistance I thought. I do wonder from what I see every day just how much damage people are doing to themselves, great if people are enjoying a drink but I do wonder how many rely on it rather than really enjoy it.
I like to look in the the neighbours bins and then give them recipe recommendations based on their choice of tipple. Eg a donner kebab goes very well with Blue Nun wine, although not too much chilli sauce or you won't appreciate the wine.
Colour me disappointed, 37 posts and no picture requests.
How lush is the lush?
Where are you, I thought we were the only ones backward enough to be still doing that.
Backward - it feels almost forward thinking to me now.
Where I live now....you can't put glass in the general recycling, there is a specific instruction to to not put it in the general waste & there is no separate glass collection service. The instruction is to take it to the recycling centre (but they have stopped glass collection there 'because of covid') or the local supermarket. The supermarket one can't keep up with the empties of a town of 9000 slowly drinking themselves silly at home because of lockdown.
They collect your glass! Lucky you.
I did hear the bin man let out an impressed sound when emptying my recycling bin. I like the odd can of beer as does my other half. She finds it embarrassing pouring the empty cans in the Wheely bin, worried about what the neighbors think.
I tell her to stop drinking my beer.
It used to be "de rigeur" in Germany (yes know it's French) to smash your bottles into the bin (take up less space, hyper efficient Germans). Anyway, my German grandma used to save up a load of bottles and then smash them all in one go to make the nosey neighbours think they had a really good party last night.
I did hear the bin man let out an impressed sound when emptying my recycling bin.
We only put ours out when it's full - just to make an impression.
slowoldman
Full MemberIt used to be “de rigeur” in Germany (yes know it’s French) to smash your bottles into the bin (take up less space, hyper efficient Germans).
As much as I like the convenience of recycling collections I kind of miss going to the bottle bank. SMASH! TINKLE!
Over the last lockdown our blue box of shame looked like we'd had the pogues, Larry Hagman and Oliver Reid over for a distant relatives wedding. Now I just drop the empties at sellafield so they can encapsulate uranium in them. Maybe it's a temporary thing. You should do a spreadsheet, in week and cumulative and present it to her over teams.
Not sure what my point is, I've been drinking.
@FunkyDunc the OP does’t mention anything about trying to help his neighbor.
I imagine he's trying to safeguard the general population who have to share the roads with his perma-sozzled neighbour.
Did you check they weren't alcohol free, grape juice etc?
A workmate's mum has a form of dementia but can still manage at home and they have a great weekday carer. Forgetfulness meant her white wine habit was getting out of hand, so they just substituted alcohol free wine in the fridge. She gets through plenty of bottles and hasn't noticed the swap.
I bopped 10 bottles of whisky in the recycling the other day. That was 13 days worth.
This is why I stopped buying whisky.
Jesus @kneebiscuit, that's pretty full on.
God you must be a horrible neighbor to have.
I've had a neighbour who would drive 35 miles back from work, in rush hour, on a Friday night and be already too drunk at 6pm to be able get himself out of the car and in through his front door when he got home.
Does knowing that me a bad neighbour or does it make him a bad neighbour given that we have to share a road with him and will always be driving to and from the same destination?
An ex ,Louise, had a problem. One night she appeared at my door about 4am absolutely hammered I sent her away. She appeared next morning to let me know what a horrible person I was. Watched her jump in her car and drive away. I called the police suspecting she was over the limit and had a 20mile journey.
Got a call back a while later saying she'd been arrested for drunk driving. They found the car in the middle of a roundabout. All airbags had deployed and 2 smashed alloys. I'd do it again no matter who.
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