To drink wine in the park?

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We've walked two miles to the good park. We stopped at the shop to buy the essentials (milk, water and wine). I have cups with me so the kids can have a drink. They've been in the park for an hour and we have another hour to go before DH picks us up.

Just how bad would it be to pour myself a glass of vino? I am bored shitless. Will everybody judge me and will I be an awful parent?

If it matters, the wine is still nice and cold. Although the plastic cup may mar the taste somewhat. I'm sitting outside the actual play park with the dog.

AIBU? Would you?

Glass of wine in the park: Fine

Bottle of cider in the park: Pushing the boundries

A whole bottle and it's not even 6.30pm? Respect

Is it not illegal to drink outside? It is where I am (Scotland) my uncle got a fine for drinking just outside his gate

If you have crisps (kettle chips) it's picnic so I used to tell myself

Do it!

I never would, but I'd really want to.

Respect to you.

Am I the only one, then, who thinks it's a really bad idea?

It's too late now imperial she's probably conked out on sofa, waste of an evening imo

Why not just get a coffee next time?

It's a bit sad really.

Wine in the park is marvellous although not so much in autumn but in the summer for sure.

Of course you can. We used to have our baby groups in the pub when I was on mat leave. It was glorious to have a large glass if wine whilst singing the wheels on the bus

Yes but sitting in the sun having a picnic with a bunch of friends is very different from sitting on a damp bench on your own as the lights are fading!

You've posted similar threads under another name, op, haven't you? .

Stop pretending you don't have alcohol issues; you do.

Sorry but sitting having a glass of wine in the sun with friends is totally different to sitting and tanking half a bottle out of a plastic cup when you've taken your kids to the park. I'm genuinely surprised by some of the responses here.

I wouldn't. But each to their own.

If I had downed an entire bottle in an afternoon/early evening I wouldn't be fit to cook tea. I'm such a lightweight.

Is it normal to buy wine as an 'essential'?

I don't think not being able to drink a whole bottle in two and a half hours can be classed as being a lightweight

this thread is depressing

Yeah this is definitely an echo of another thread.
I don't think it's okay to finish a whole bottle of wine by 6:30 on a Thursday when you're looking after kids but I'm sure someone else will tell me I'm boring for it.

Lilaclily "A whole bottle and it's not even 6.30pm? Respect "

Really? I think it's a really bad idea.

I drink like a fish but this is absolutely definitely something I am V judgey about! It sounds a bit desperate. How can drinking wine out of a plastic cup alleviate boredom?

I am proper laid back and I love a drink.

But I would have been judging the mum quaffing wine at the park on a cold autumn evening.

Sorry.