AM drinking...

[horner638]

I work 12 hour night shifts as an ICU nurse. Several of my coworkers and I regularly hit the local taco stand for tacos and beer after work. There's nothing like a tall cold one to get rid of the stress of a difficult night and put you right to get a good day's worth of sleep.

The hardest thing with working night shift is not getting to sleep it's staying asleep. I find benadryl and beer a good prescription for a good rest.

 

[shamrockdoc]

Hell yes on the Taco Stand ! +1000

 

[SkylerChaBro]

I don't see what the big deal is considering 8am is your wind down time. How could anyone not be able to draw the connection between your schedule, and their schedule? You should fire back with "you never have a beer after work?" and look at them like they are f-ing crazy.

 

[Rivenin]

what it comes down to is... It is your "technical" night time. you just got off of work and want a beer. it's just like any 9 to 5er, only your clock is backwards.
i used to work the night shift as well, and it was actually quite fun to get off work, go home, open a beer or pour a GnT and watch the sun rise.

 

[RukusDM]

I worked rotating shift for about 15 years. When on Nights, we used to get out at 7am . We'd go to breakfast then hit the local pub for a few.

We usually got to the pub before 8am. They wouldn't be open. There would be about a dozen of us standing around waiting for them to open.

The old folks walking down the street to get their grocery's in the morning used to give us strange looks. They must have thought we needed something in a brown bag lol

 

[horner638]

Hell yes on the Taco Stand ! +1000

Tacos n' beer, always a great combo :rockin:

I also love the looks we get when a dozen nurses come in and start drinking at 8AM!

 

[paraordnance]

I don't work night shifts and I don't have a problem to have a beer at 8 am if I get up at 7 am. Some others might, but I just don't care what other say. I love my beer any time of a day and I can easily have it for breakfast, especially if I have a hangover from drinking vodka the night before. Hour later I'm back in business and feel great. I'm not alcoholic either, by the way

 

[TheWeeb]