Mum drinking at pick up

School won't do anything, noone will. Noone has the time, die to much more serious concerns.

Mumsnet threshold for reporting stuff is insane.

I can safely say, I never did that, nor did any other parent to my knowledge.

In fairness, most of our primary school parents were driving.

Mumsnet really is a different world. It's not unusual at all for me and my son's classmates parents to have a beer or wine in the park on a sunny Friday afternoon after school pick up while they play. Sometimes I take a wine in my contigo cup as it keeps it nice and cold! I've even done this with a gin and tonic once. And I've definitely decanted wine into a plastic bottle before if I've not wanted to take the whole bottle - though to be fair I can't remember if I've done this for after school socialising.

Of course if people are concerned about alcoholism they should do something to protect any children involved. But in this case I would need a hell of a lot more evidence.

@ReadingInTheRain583 I'm sorry for what you've been through.

At this point, I'd make a mental note and see if she behaves strangely or drunkenly when you see her from now on. I think it's fair to say that it's not ideal for a parent to reek of alcohol when taking their child to the park in the afternoon, but if it's actually a problem worth reporting, I'd expect there will be more evidence than this to go on.

3072 🤣🤣**

Help? She needs rehab & pronto. She’s absolutely blind drunk, secretly drinking wine out of a 2ltr bottle and she had a bottle of Prosecco on the drive to the park.

So many people putting 2+ 2 together & getting 3072.

Or some people are trying to prove that someone they haven't met is an alcoholic. The whole thread is bizarre. The OP has just made various judgements based on very little information about someone she doesnt even know well and some people are suggesting social services are immediately called. Madness.

😂😂😂 This thread has made me laugh. I do think the lady’s behaviour is a bit hmmm but I do agree we don’t know the full circumstances. @Miyagi99 yes I think I meant receptacle 😂

Surely most people realise that drinking wine from a water bottle at school pick up time MIGHT be indicative of an alcohol problem. It might not but those of us who have had relatives with alcohol problems have said it's exactly the kind of thing their relative would have done.

Some posters are posting excessively to try and prove that someone they haven't met isn't an alcoholic.

The fact she was so open about it makes me feel it's not as sordid as it could be.

I think without any other cause for concern I wouldn't do anything with the information in terms of reporting anything. I'd deem that overkill at this stage. I would approach the person next week some time to say you've been worrying about it and check she's ok.

This.
I’m sure this isn’t the start of her drinking. She needs help.

🤣🤣🤣 That made me spit my vodka out I'm on my 2nd bottle but don't worry ladies I'm drinking out of a glass so that makes it ok 👌

A shoe

👏 you’re the better mum!

Possibly had the same amount but yours was in a wine glass.

RTOP for clarity on hiding.

I wouldn’t call a bottle an unusual implement (do you mean receptacle?) to drink liquids out of, or would you rather she was swigging from the wine bottle?!

I personally don't think drinking in a park in the afternoon is unusual

Where does it say she’s hiding it?

It’s scary how many people are reading the op & completely changing it.

Is her name Linda Carter?

Unusual implement🤣

Where did it say she was hiding it? You’ve made that up.

She was drinking in an unusual situation, out of an unusual implement and stunk of alcohol, , however I do agree it’s one snippet so I’m not saying I am 100% right and I respect your view.

I'd say that she knows it's not OK too, because if she thought it was OK to be drinking wine at school pick up she'd have bought it in the bottle or it's container, and not tried to hide it in a water bottle.

You should be able to anonymously raise a concern with school. Other people may also have raised concerns.

😂😂😂 jeez about the Stanley cups.

People saying she didn’t hide it - some alcoholics hide in plain sight and often make light and joke about their drinking in order to normalise it. It’s easier to drink in front of people and get a joke in about it so people don’t question it; than to secretly drink.

OMW, you all jumped from a mum with wine in her water bottle to alcoholic!

We all know if anyone has alcohol even the smallest amount and we don't, they stink of alcohol.

So being fair to the mum, she sounded OK and could reason, so not drunk. Her bottle might hold 3 glasses or so and not a full bottle.

Why does she have a prob? If she ricked up with a couple of cans of ready made gin and tonic or a can of larger that would be fine, right?
Who are you telling @Cybertron? Blooming talk to her, she sounds like she may need to offload!