1. He wore nothing, not a scrap of cloth. He stood in the middle of the footpath, eyes glazed, wildly gesticulating with great passion about nothing. A meaningless babble of words were puring out of his mouth. People got onto the road to avoid coming any closer to him than needed. My two lady companions were embarrassed, amused, confused all at once and clueless how to deal with the situation.
2. Middle aged man, sitting next to my sister on the train. Decently dressed, has a briefcase and looks like any of the hundreds of office goers on the intercity. He looked at her, longer than normal, then started talking, and did not stop till she got up and moved over to the next coupe with a sympathetic family.
3. He is short, is wearing a torn banyan smells of a dust, alcohol and a day’s hard labor. He stood next to me at the bus stop, I gave him a cursory glance, he didn’t like it, he demanded that I apologize for giving him dirty looks, or else. I did, then moved away. He picked a fight with the college student who was standing next to me, people moved away from the site. A minutes later he was on the ground.
I do not know what your attitude is about getting drunk inebriation, but you would agree that drunks public displays of inebriation are common and often difficult to deal with.Here are some pointers on dealing with them.
How do I spot them:
Please note that signs and symptoms of inebriation vary quite widely and depend on too many factors, the following are the common and the easily noticeable.
Time: Evenings, weekends, festival time etc is when they abound and are too easily spotted.
One of the first things that gets affected is fine motor control. Inability to hold coins or count them properly, dropping coins.
In the initial stages of inebriation people become very friendly easily laugh and cry and are loud
They are slow and sluggish in everything, take time to understand questions directed at them.
Speech
They talk at varying paces and volumes
Content of speech is repetitive or irrelevant to surroundings
Boastfulness, challenging people.
Eyes
Red, Blood shot, watery, glazed etc. (lots of variety)
Look for an increased and exaggerated blink rate
The other, classical signs and symptoms like wide-based, imbalanced gait, slurred words, smell of alcohol etc. I am sure you have seen in movies.
What NOT to do
Maintain prolonged eye contact
Try to out stare them
Make fun of them/laugh at them
Give smart ass answers to their questions
Start a conversation
Abuse
Pick a fight.
What TO do
Avoid
Evade
Move away
If spoken to answer briefly
If the person is violent, seek help from bystanders or authorities.
Thats all for now folks. Show’s over.
Ciao
The Schizo
Disclaimer: This is no definitive guide, so feel free to chip in on your experiences with drunks inebriated people and advice, on your on blog or here.
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9 responses so far ↓
1 leonperkin // Oct 11, 2006 at 2:00 am
what if the bystanders are also drunk?
2 Schizo Phrenic // Oct 11, 2006 at 8:33 am
dude, am talking about a public place, not your frat party or madri gras:-)
anyway that depends on if you are drunk too, if you are, then it dont matter, if you are not and dont want to, run.
ciao
schizo
3 chaitali1 // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:43 am
I think drunkers should be avoided, they shouldn’t be given a lift. The best way to avoid them is to bypass tem.
4 adolphus // Oct 11, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Use family and job interventation. Make them want to sober up.
Find prover treatment places –most are 30 to 45 days and are just about getting sober in the way of AA. Any other way will not work.
Sober up the whole family, send them all to treatment and AA if they need it. Sober people can’t come home to a druken household. Their treatment won’t work if they do.
Single people should not meet others and with marriage in mind in treatment –the results can be horrible.
After treatment keep going to AA or NA FOREVER.
5 Schizo Phrenic // Oct 11, 2006 at 4:56 pm
good advice people,
keep sharin’
ciao
schizo
6 Christopher // Oct 12, 2006 at 2:07 am
I drive taxi in a college town, the night shift, so you know I sees ‘em drunk EVERY damn night. No definitive way to handle them all the same way, for sure. Gots to get into their particular high (low) and deal from there. Been doin’ it three years, never had a problem. Never dealt with two the same way.
Go figger…
7 eosforos // Oct 12, 2006 at 3:26 am
BTW, who gives a fuck about your definition of a drunk? you think we care for your bullshit? As if you were saying anything new… go and hide yourself fucking loser
8 bigpeeler // Oct 12, 2006 at 7:56 am
eosforos is drunk. Everyone move away slowly.
9 Schizo Phrenic // Oct 12, 2006 at 8:02 am
Hey, no making fun of “them”.
“They” tend to get violent if you do. Keep your head down, no eye contact, no referring to “them”, move back verrrrry slllowwly.
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