Just to add, I know a lovely couple who we are very good friends with. There was a New Year's eve dinner party last year which we didn't make it to but would have if we weren't doing something else. It was held in our mutual friend's house who had just had a new extension put on her house at great expense complete with new carpet etc.
The female of this lovely couple, a wonderful person, who is MD of a very succesful marketing company, articulate, well educated and kind, got very drunk. In fact, everyone was really drunk, they cracked open various lovely bottles of Cognac etc after the meal and everyone drank too much.
This friend however sometime in the middle of the night once they'd gone upstairs to bed, vomited down the side of the bed on the (brand new) wall and new carpet.
Her husband then did the "right thing" as he was compus mentus (she wasn't, she had passed out again!) and got as much vomit up as possible and wiped the wall before it ruined the paint (which it did anyway on new plasterboard, they had to touch up, no big deal) and yes, he was bloody pissed off with her in a way but also he realised that these things sort of just happen sometimes.
She was full of remorse, they tried to pay some money to the couple with the extension, they wouldn't accept, and since then she has been that fair bit more careful with her drinking. She's not usually a drunk - it was a combination of circumstances and drinks she wouldn't normally drink etc - she lacked sensibility that night, but she's usually a perfectly good upstanding member of society.