AIBU for having a pint with breakfast in town?

[Educata]

Just back from a trip into town to meet my friend for breakfast.

We went to a well known pub chain - both had a fry up each, washed down by a coffee and a pint (Guiness for me, cider for my friend).

DP has declared that very out of character and not a great way to start the day.

AIBU?

As long as you’re not driving don’t see the harm in it at all

Yes, the Wetherspoons hotel in Salisbury was great. Especially as they gave me a discount on our second room - “not your fault you have three children”, they said. I wasn’t going to argue. Similarly, no pint for me with breakfast though.

I was also in Wetherspoons for breakfast. Good food, great price. I can’t get excited about people drinking any time of the day. Do what you like!

drinking after park run reminds me of te time I used to go to church just to just the post church sherry. 😝

No drinking until the afternoon…always goes to my head faster when it’s still daylight though.

Does he think that you are now on the way to becoming an alcoholic?

Surely he should be concerned if you were doing it regularly?

As a one off, what's his concern?

Absolutely. OP might be too far gone already but we have to try. Let's stage a Mumsnet intervention and try to bring her back from the brink of rolling-round-in- the-street-drunk alcoholism!

So I assume in summer you don't drink until after 9pm then

It's traditional where I used to live (not UK) to go for a beer after Sunday morning church and set the world to rights with friends. It's not even necessarily traditional to eat anything with it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%BChschoppen

Yes, it's such a slippery slope, 9.30am drink one day, full-blown alcoholic the next! Only on Mn, of course

If they serve alcohol that time of day then as an adult you’re welcome to buy it. Who cares what anyone else thinks!

As someone who cannot be arsed to go out evenings I think this should be normalised. Having a drink with a friend when the time suits sounds wonderful.

Alcohol with breakfast seems very weird to me and I don't understand why anyone would want an alcoholic drink that early - whether it's a pint in Wetherspoons, a drink at an airport or a glass of champagne (which I've never seen anyone have but it was mentioned by a pp so must be a thing).

A cooked breakfast needs a mug of tea or coffee with it.

I can’t see a problem in having a drink with your breakfast, even less of a problem if you only had one pint.

That's if you drink tea or coffee. I don't drink either

We attend a military breakfast couple of times a month, Saturday morning. A couple of the higher ranks buy a glass of red after breakfast. I drop one off on our way home sometimes, he usually says not to take him all the way and drop him by the pub…….
Another guy I sometimes drop a bit further on comments ‘oh the grandchildren must be visiting, he’s not going home today’.

It been decided that as treat once in a while what’s the harm, but carry it on for the rest of the day? Maybe not.
Enjoy.

You do know that you don’t have to get drunk to have a problem with alcohol?

I also didn’t she had a problem.

Pint at 9.30 is a bit ridiculous but whatever.

I always have a pint if I have a spoons breakfast. Their hashbrowns are the best!

It may not have been first thing though. You could be up at 6 and having the breakfast at 11.30

I’ve seen workers in Normandy and Provence go for breakfast in their local and have a “café-Calva” at any time after 7.00am, “washed down” with a Gauloise, of course! Mind you, this was about 50 years ago and I’ve no idea if things have changed in those parts of France!

Yeah drinking alcohol in the morning is unusual and quite unhealthy. Of course it’s not much different from having it with dinner physiologically but I think socially/psychologically it’s more likely you will then drink more throughout the day.

Guinness is a great start to the day — all that iron!

If I'm observing a stranger I have no idea it's a one off, so my comment stands. I would see someone drinking alcohol at that time and assume they have a huge drink problem. I might well be wrong, but my point was that it's very unusual and highly likely to be indicative of a problem.

I don't think people with a healthy relationship with alcohol drink that early in the day, and yes I know a lot of people on here are saying they do it, but I don't think they have healthy relationships with alcohol either. I think a lot of people have low level drink problems in this country and that it's normalised, and that's what we are seeing on this thread.

Oh I do. I just feel pissed more quickly

Anyone who drinks more than a thimble of sherry at Christmas is deemed an alcoholic on mn. It’s ridiculous.

OP yanbu.