Drinkers in Spoons

[TheDaringOliveNewt]

I'm away and at spoons having breakfast.

Every single table apart from mine has pints going, at 8.30.

Aibu thinking it's weird?

I used to work there for many years, and in Scotland we can’t serve alcohol before a certain time unless it’s with food. On old firm days we would get hundreds of orders for bacon rolls and sausage rolls all that would come back untouched so the could get on it as soon as. Really pissed me off wasting all that food - just have a fucking pint at home!

Also once got a glass thrown at me because I wouldn’t pour some tourist a pint at 9am even though he was bladdered. Dodged it though because I was very nimble back then.

I've had a pint with breakfast on a boating holiday, when we had to have a very early start because of tide times.

It was 11am though, so not mega early.

Not always.
I travel with work frequently and I’ll happily go for a pint or glass of wine on my own if I feel like it.

Ours is usually full of mothers and babies on a morning as it’s cheap coffee and space to not completely bung the place up with half a dozen prams. Most little independent coffee shops just don’t have this amount of room.

I agree with this comment - it’s the snobbery that gets me. It’s just because it’s cheap and poor people are doing it that it’s worthy of a post on mumsnet in faux horror.

Drinking in the morning can be fun, but only if you’re middle class like me and you mix your vodka with tomato juice, Tabasco, a stick of celery and pay £16 for it in a fancy breakfast place.

Standard spoons. Do like their breakfasts though but too early for drinking so stick with coffee

We were amazed that in spoons at the airport at 10am, we could have ordered a pint but couldn’t get a bowl of chips for my daughter.

Nothing to do with snobbery: Spoons is just not a nice environment. Food can be OK but all the furnishings and fittings are icky, everything seems tired and cheap and there are always, without fail, annoying pissheads in there when you are trying to eat. Plus the man who owns it is an exploitative right wing twat.

What’s wrong with a greasy spoon if you want a good cheap breakfast?

Google suggests that apart from airports, most Wetherspoons don’t serve alcohol until 9. Not that it’s much later.

But as a pp said, maybe they’ve been on night shifts…

Not weird for 'spoons.

They're like airports, breakfast-time drinking is standard.

What's weird is commenting on other people's lives

Not everywhere has a greasy spoon.

Weatherspoons my local city is where you find offshore workers coming off shift after two weeks on, having breakfast and a pint. It’s close, convenient, quick and not too discerning.

It's Spoons, so yeah, fairly normal.

I personally think there are a lot more functioning alcoholics out there than people realise...

If people didn’t comment on other people’s lives AIBU wouldn’t exist

I keep seeing similar comments to the above. How would MNs exist if people didn’t comment on others lives?!

Perfect example of looking down your nose snobbery.

If I have breakfast in Spoons then I have a pint of cola. In the dark gloomy depths of Spoons I doubt you can tell the difference.

A few years ago I had a holiday in rural France and used to go to the village cafe for breakfast. There were loads of farmers and farmhands in there every morning from early drinking coffee and calvados before work.

I imagine that because it was in La France profonde many MNers would regard it as natural, acceptable and ‘oh so French’.

But a pint of lager in Spoons at 8am is shocking. 🙄

This is entirely your own opinion presented as 'fact' 😳

There are over 800 Whetherspoons in the UK.

If you've visited every single one of them, I'd say you're the one with a drink problem 🍺

Spoons is just not a nice environment. Food can be OK but all the furnishings and fittings are icky,

Depends on the Spoons, I appreciate the variety eg some are former banks, art deco cinemas and then some just look like normal pubs.

It's just grim isn't it. Yes go for breakfast lovely but booze at 8.30am? You can only imagine the home lives people have to be boozing at that time.

I worked nights many moons ago and never nipped to the pub after for a few pints .

Must be alkies or those pretending they aren't alkies rather 'social drinkers'.

Yes, I often drink alone. On holiday and in my own town. Why not?
I actually get different ideas when having a wine or two on my own that I don't get if I'm talking to someone.

The Knights Templar one was pretty cool.

Do you drink alone at 8.30am?