Night Shift

[bb239605]

Just got done working a twelve and decided to have my weekly martini chased down by a couple beers. Anyone else work nights and feel/look like a totally alcoholic when you go to the local brunch place after working all night and youre the only one drinking scotch neat?

Bleh maybe just me, but im ok with it and so is the swmbo. Cheers to being drunk and passed out by ten am on a easter sunday :cross:

 

[TowsonTiger22]

Hell yeah! Nothing wrong with that!

 

[DoubleAught]

I do that and work days

 

[hoghead]

I work on call. There are plenty of times I'm having my first beer watching the sun come up. Sometimes I start my brew days at crazy hours and I'm sure the neighbors thinks I'm crazy and/or a drunk drinking and brewing as they head off to work.

 

[barneygumble]

We should make this a recurring thread. At work as we speak! Working a third tonight and tomorrow nite.

 

[Airborneguy]

Just started my night shift. I only do one a week now, but I did midnights for almost 7 years. When I was single, I almost always had a few before going to bed. On nights where something bad or crazy happened, we'd all hit up a local bar after work to unwind and try to forget about it. Doesn't have to be 5 o'clock to drink, but if anyone really cares, the old saying holds true.

 

[barneygumble]

Just started my night shift. I only do one a week now, but I did midnights for almost 7 years. When I was single, I almost always had a few before going to bed. On nights where something bad or crazy happened, we'd all hit up a local bar after work to unwind and try to forget about it. Doesn't have to be 5 o'clock to drink, but if anyone really cares, the old saying holds true.

In a previous job, we worked 12 overnights and got out a 6 am. On really bad nights, when things got crazy bad, the whole shift would buy beer, head to the supervisor's lake house, get hammered and go tubing at 7 am. Prolly not the smartest thing, but it kept us sane.

 

[unionrdr]

I did midnights & night shifts for over 10 years till I finally got the seniority to hold days. This old blues song says it all-

And he was an auto worker like me & pop.

 

[barneygumble]

Signing in for the nite. overnight tonight then off. Brew day Wed.

 

[bscott1011]

Have been working nights for 10 years, I usually have a beer with breakfast then go to bed. My shift has been known to throw a party or fish fry at 7am and yes I have recieved the strange looks from "normals" when loading up on beer and ice at the convenience store when everyone else is headed to work.

 

[barneygumble]

Have been working nights for 10 years, I usually have a beer with breakfast then go to bed. My shift has been known to throw a party or fish fry at 7am and yes I have recieved the strange looks from "normals" when loading up on beer and ice at the convenience store when everyone else is headed to work.

I love doing that.

 

[clamflats]

I used to go in to make snow at 5 PM, work thru the night and got done at 7 AM. My room mate's GF always told me I had a problem when I had an ale with my supper because she was having her breakfast. Everyone else understood my schedule but not her. Glad I don't have to deal with her narrow mindedness.

 

[fujieagle]

Ha, ha, ha. Spent 15 years on night shift. I would be buying beer when everyone else was buying coffee and buying coffee when everyone else was buying beer. I remember getting out of work on my Friday. Go home and get a good buzz, then go to bed. Get back up after about a 5 hour nap and start drinking again. Nothing better than getting drunk/buzzed twice in the same day. For some reason my inlaws and neighbors thought it was wrong to be drinking at 8am. Those that have never worked the graveyard shift will never understand.

 

[barneygumble]

Well, Its Tuesday morning here. working the second on a Fri and Sat nite. Then I do an overnight double on Sun. Yay.

 

[Airborneguy]

You guys are getting me excited. I'm getting promoted in a few months and will be asking for midnights again as soon as I get settled in my new spot.