Reply #39: Ayup. Only real drunks drink before noon.

[Ikonoklast]

My brother had a restaurant with a lounge that opened at 10:30 for the lunch trade, and there were always a few regular car or insurance sales-types that would be there every day for two or three hours, drinking their lunch...but they never set foot inside before noon.

Sometimes they would wander back to the office before closing, sometimes they would close the bar at 0230.

Boner reminds me of some of those country club, private golf-course, three martini guys you'd see there every day promptly at lunchtime getting hammered.