I have a healthy dislike for belligerent drunks
You know the sort....someone who seems to relish confrontation, at the expense of others and with scant disregard for their own credibility and dignity.(well that is just while under the influence of alcohol!)
My mother was a bitter and belligerent drunk at times.which was an even worse thing to be as her conversation would zig zag between self pity and aggressive goading...not the nicest of combinations to be involved with
On my way out of the hospital tonight I ran into a couple of drunks, who were being shown the door by a somewhat elderly security guard and a couple of porters... Both men were up for a fight, albeit a verbal one, and the amount of abuse and venom that spewed from their mouths was revolting, not just because of the language ("fuck" seems almost an innocuous word nowadays).. no it was the level of aggression that I found so upsetting to witness.
It was as though, the whole of these men's anger reserves were being unleashed, towards complete strangers, strangers that had done nothing more that not accept or agree with their behavior
A middle aged domestic also on her way home stopped briefly to help.and spat out the question "would you speak to your fathers like this?"
But it fell on deaf ears....
"I haven't got a dad" One boy sang out triumphantly.
as the other laughed like a hyena before he told her to "shut the fuck up!"
Oh how I wish that these two, over a morning cup of coffee and a couple of slices of toast, could sit down with their families to watch this little interlude at the hospital.....
sober shame....that is the order of the day......
Mind you.....Sober drunks tend to remember nothing!
How convienient
I have a feeling that if I tended toward drink I might, myself, be a belligerent and violent and VERY nasty drunk.
ReplyDeleteLiving in the centre of Bath, I see a fair bit of this sort of alcohol related, foul behaviour, and I too find it deeply upsetting... YOU EFFING BLOODY C***!!!!
ReplyDelete(I will not remember a thing about this tomorrow)
delores
ReplyDeletewhy do you say that?
Tom
Why does that not surprise me
I notice you posted a piccy from a Toronto/Boston game. The jerks behind the glass are as bad as those in front of it, and they are sober! Imagine if they played drunk?!
ReplyDeleteJane x
I've been experiencing similar feelings to yours this week. Hannover was here to play football against Sevilla. So many aggressive drunks on the streets. At times scary. Always disconcerting. What a waste of air!
ReplyDeleteA couple of months ago I was subject to a barrage of obscenities that I've never, ever been called or heard before. Needless to say, it left me offended and very hurt, and it still does. The sad part is, that just like these drunks, I don't think this person even cares. Do you think these 'people' who do this type of thing ever will?
ReplyDeleteIt's all rather pathetic and sad.
ReplyDeleteMany times belligerant drunks just express who they really are -hateful, stupid human beings. They just hide it better when they are sober.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind, funny, happy drunks though.
And - by the way - why has the hockey player in the photo got two sets of eyebrows?
ReplyDeleteAs a nurse I always hated drunks too cause they come into your ER, bleed and puke every where and expect all the attention. Never mind the guy with the MI in the room next. Once though one such treasure stood up to hit the doctor slipped in his own vomit, hit the cart and knocked himself out cold.
ReplyDeleteAll of us in ER that night went home smiling
I'm with you on this, John. It is most upsetting to see. x
ReplyDeleteI think you understimate those lads -- too many people behave that way all the time,drunk or sober.
ReplyDeleteI can't not stomach alcohol abuse or language abuse...so the two together would have probably had me wading in on them. That, as my dear mother would have told me, brings me down to their level.
ReplyDeleteTragic don't you think that people should lead such sad lives that they need to self-medicate into belligerence and oblivion?
ReplyDeleteIn days gone by, my sister would not drink with me, she said all I did was repeat myself. I tended to get overly affectionate too.
ReplyDeleteI had a friend whose husband would beat her up when he drank hard liquor and was absolutely nasty, so he went to a beer and she stayed with him...
Nothing as bad as watching a drunk when you're sober.
Welcome back to the world in the ER. Though not that intense, it is a daily occurence. And you're right, I doubt they remember a thing the next day. It does serve as a pretty good lesson to the kids in the ER. Some kids I try to shield from having to hear it. Others? I just hope the unexpected lesson sets in.
ReplyDeleteWhat a waste to be like that.
ReplyDeleteDrunken aggression against hospital staff seems to be a daily problem. Maybe every A & E dept should have a cell where these people are left until they sober-up; regardless of how much they're bleeding. Disgraceful.
ReplyDeleteAngry of Lumberjack.
I live such a quiet life, that witnessing things like that actually hurt, when I am exposed to them.
ReplyDeleteI fall asleep when I get drunk. Wherever, whenever.
ReplyDeleteOh but before I do - I sneeze uncontrollably.
Rory
I got a bit drunk last weekend at a neighbours party (I blamed her 80 year old mother who plied me with wine). The words I spoke came back to haunt me 2 days later when another neighbour brought me 2 dead pigeons I had requested as I had seen Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall pluck and cook 2 (my neighbour goes huntin, shootin, and a fishin). A hilarious half hour ensued on my back garden when I attempted to butcher the poor birds. I have to say that pigeon is now my fave meat! Hubby gets to deal with many a drunk and he says that women are the worst xxxx
ReplyDeleteA sad symptom of this countries rapid decline into scumbag land...
ReplyDeleteI pity these people that they can find nothing better to do with their time than waste it in such a manner.
ReplyDeleteFrom personal experience, I agree that people who drink themselves out of sobriety too much and too often can be utter bores. That said, addiction to alcohol by the few is inevitable. If you want to have a society where alcohol is available, then you have to accept that some people will get drunk, and as a society we all need to take some responsibility for this.
ReplyDeleteI rarely drink (and am near unconscious after three glasses of wine). That said, I’d hope that I’d still have sufficient wit not to post anything on the internet when drunk...never a good idea! And, irrespective of the cynicism and distrust I might hold for some of those who grandly style themselves as ‘authority’ figures, I’d still like to think that I wouldn’t abuse them when drunk.
On the other hand, the casual attribution of the description “scumbag” to anyone whose lifestyle you do not like (or don’t even try to understand) I find a little sad.
If I was forced to use the word “scum” (not discounting in jest), there are plenty of folk adopting ‘authority’ positions in business, religion and politics who deserve the attribution far more than a couple of antisocial ‘drunks’ in a hospital entrance. They didn’t effectively steal the life savings of the elderly and hard-working, they don’t promote the hatred of people whose beliefs or lifestyles are different, and nor have they started a couple of wars that have killed thousands.
Your story about abusive drunks could have been drawn from almost any hospital in the land. It's at times like that that I wish I had superpowers. I'd whisk the offenders off to the summit of a rain swept Ben Nevis and leave them in their Homer Simpaon boxer shorts to find their own way home. People who work in hospitals - often lowly paid people - simply should not have to put up with drunken abuse. Their "masters" should be protecting them with CCTV coverage that then leads determinedly to arrests and court appearances.
ReplyDeleteHorrible. I wondered what those who saw themselves on telly during the riots thought ( probably laughed )
ReplyDeleteI am a happy drunk
ReplyDeletelike Rory I sneeze like mad, get too talkative and hug people
if I was a bitter and foul mouthed drunk...I would switch to nitrous oxide
It makes you wish you could video them John and then find them and play it back to them, with their families, when they are sober.
ReplyDeleteWhat I hate most in any situation like this is how people lose all dignity.
That's why drinking is highly over-rated in my books. Who knows what is lurking in our subconscious mind? All for that little 'buzz' of 'feeling better'? Let's get passed the myth that alcohol makes us feel better.....let's learn to experience this life raw and naturally.
ReplyDeleteI saw a hat once that said, "Instant asshole. Just add alcohol." Isn't that the truth?
ReplyDeleteI don't have anything against social drinking, but loathe mean drunks. They do and say all kinds of terrible things, but because they "don't remember it" later, they expect you to behave as though it never happened.
Unfortunately true.
ReplyDeleteAnd worse when they act the same way without alcohol.
Hope you have a good week, John. *hugs*
I don't like nasty drunks, either, never have, and from a very young age, seem to be a favourite target of theirs.
ReplyDeleteI did have an episode this month with a very active alcoholic that confirmed i need to keep doing what i have been, i.e., put as much distance between myself and them as possible.
As for those pissants at the hospital, i'd probably have knocked their heads together. Then, of course, *I'd* be the one sent to gaol for disturbing the peace...
megan
I hate it when people get drunk.......
ReplyDeleteGill in Canada
oh gill
ReplyDeleteI love getting drunk
but I am a nice drunk!