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AIBU?

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Original poster

to even think about having a little sip of my colleagues coke to see if there is vodka in it?

28 replies

sandyballs · 14/02/2008 16:18

I've just got a feeling that there is, might be completely unfounded, but she is very very antisocial in the mornings, doesn't say a word to anyone. In the afternoons the coke appears and she is suddenly the life and soul, with an occasional vagueness and wobbliness about her.

I'm just tempted to have a sip whilst she is in the ladies. Not sure what I would say to her if she caught me out though .

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Lizzer · 14/02/2008 16:20

Well you're going to have to now!! YANBU

hoxtonchick · 14/02/2008 16:21

do it for us (it could of course be the caffeine in the coke......... nah).

Overrun · 14/02/2008 16:21

I would, if I was you, I know a terrile invasion of privacy and all that. But I would still do it

VinegarTitsOut · 14/02/2008 16:22

Maybe she just needs the caffine boast, but try it anyway and let us know

Lizzer · 14/02/2008 16:22

Someone will probably come along with some morals soon though... I suppose it is a bit cheky. Would you confront her if there was?

Maybe its just the sugar and caffeine buzz

Hassled · 14/02/2008 16:22

One sip wouldn't do it, though - probably wouldn't detect the taste. You'd have to down the whole can I reckon (could say you'd knocked it over). Pick a day where you're not driving home/having an appraisal late afternoon and go for it .
(actually it might be a good basis on which to go into an appraisal)

TsarChasm · 14/02/2008 16:22

Ooh how interesting..what on earth could you say if she came back and you were mid-sip??

MrsMattie · 14/02/2008 16:22

What wil you do with the information, though?

MascaraOHara · 14/02/2008 16:22

you have to do it!! I need to know now.

bran · 14/02/2008 16:24

Do you see her come back from the shop with the Coke and open it in front of you? If so I don't think she could easily be slipping any vodka in. If she is bringing it in from home with the seals on the bottle already broken, then you might be right.

Some people just aren't good in the mornings. I can't form whole sentences before I've finished my first coffee, and I'm pretty worn out in the late afternoon. I'm pretty perky in the hour after lunch, if wonder if my colleagues suspect me of taking something in my soup.

unknownrebelbang · 14/02/2008 16:24

I had a colleague who used to secretly drink at work.

Terribly sad.

Not sure I'd notice from one sip though (unless it was loaded).

Overrun · 14/02/2008 16:25

What would you do though, if there was vodka in it?

totalmisfit · 14/02/2008 16:28

wouldn't you be able to smell the vodka on her breath anyway?

JodieG1 · 14/02/2008 16:29

You can't smell vodka as far as I know, could be wrong though.

Overrun · 14/02/2008 16:30

I think vodka doesn't smell much on the breath, which is why some one who was covertly drinking might choose it.

harleyd · 14/02/2008 16:30

unless its a 2ltr bottle its not likely to get her pissed lol

Chequers · 14/02/2008 16:31

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sandyballs · 14/02/2008 16:35

Not sure what I would do if it was vodka in it, nothing really. Poor girl, I think she's had a hard life, and I don't know her well enough to talk to her about it, she's not a friend as such, just a colleague. I'm just curious I suppose, that's all. Perhaps I need more work .

She has a bottle of coke and pours it into one of those little clear plastic cups you get in the loos at work.

I'm just waiting for my moment .

Another thing that makes me suspicious of her, in drinking terms, is that she pretended not to drink at our xmas party but I saw a few glasses of wine squirrelled away behind a pillar that she kept going back to.

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SheikYerbouti · 14/02/2008 16:35

I used to work with a woman who would go off and buy her daily bottle of Brandy at breaktime from Trose.

It was a bit sad, but a bit funny at the smae time. She wore a wig (she wasn't bald, she just like wearing wigs) and as the day wore on, her wig would become more skewiff. There were many occasions where I had to prod her in the ribs and tell her the boiss was coming.

Thank god the poor woman woke up to herself, and went to AA. Last time I saw her, she was wigless, sober and she looked fab.

Chequers · 14/02/2008 16:37

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unknownrebelbang · 14/02/2008 16:38

My colleague ended up dying.

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sandyballs · 14/02/2008 16:39

Ahh, a happy ending Sheik, bless her.

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sandyballs · 14/02/2008 16:46

Oh dear Unknown. I suppose the body just packs up eventually with that amount of abuse.

I feel bad now, like I'm turning this into some kind of joke, when she really might have a problem.

Or, it might just actually be coke, poor love, and I'm writing all thise about her.
She does look like a drinker, but then I've got a friend with rosacea who looks like a very heavy drinker and never touches a drop.

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unknownrebelbang · 14/02/2008 17:05

She drowned in the bath.

Sorry, I know your OP was lighthearted, but my colleague's last couple of years were a tragedy and it touched a nerve.

georgedontdothat · 14/02/2008 17:06

My dp is like this a miserable bugger in tyhe morning then he has a coke and is hyper as anything.

Pisses me off