Homeless Shelter serving beer

[Beanie]

RE: Homeless Shelter serv

I once worked in a care facility that had a resident who was a smoker and a drinker(in abundance)and they would take him outside in his bed(no legs)and spend 2hours in the afternoon and 1hour in the evening ,sitting with him to light his cigs and open his beer for him.
I feel that people in one way or another have, are, or did pay at some point in their lives to be looked after and treated with dignity.Serving 1 beer an hour isn't hurting,to me it's showing compassion.

 

[Beanie]

RE: Homeless Shelter serv

That was a bit too deep wasn't it!?Oh well,have 2 beers and see ya in the morn...

 

[bhoour]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serving beer

mmmm ... tequila! Used to even eat the worm!

My drink of choice! mmm,mmm,mmm. I managed a Mexican restaurant for 10 yrs....oh the maragarita's . The customers loved to buy shots for the staff. I believe I have ruined my tolerance level tho. I can only catch a buzz if I'm drinking the MEXICAN ORO. Everything else is like water...........unless I have a puff too.
:hippy2:

 

[missile]

You wait and see if the next helpful trend to the ill isn't feeding Big Macs and Twinkies to the Fatties out on the streets.

 

[Jay]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serving beer

mmmm ... tequila! Used to even eat the worm!

My drink of choice! mmm,mmm,mmm. I managed a Mexican restaurant for 10 yrs....oh the maragarita's . The customers loved to buy shots for the staff. I believe I have ruined my tolerance level tho. I can only catch a buzz if I'm drinking the MEXICAN ORO. Everything else is like water...........unless I have a puff too.
:hippy2:

Parties at your house must be a blast!!

 

[bhoour]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serving beer

mmmm ... tequila! Used to even eat the worm!

My drink of choice! mmm,mmm,mmm. I managed a Mexican restaurant for 10 yrs....oh the maragarita's . The customers loved to buy shots for the staff. I believe I have ruined my tolerance level tho. I can only catch a buzz if I'm drinking the MEXICAN ORO. Everything else is like water...........unless I have a puff too.
:hippy2:

Parties at your house must be a blast!!

KABOOM!!!

My son's 20th in April, should be fun..........good thing we live in the sticks!

 

[Toro]

RE: Homeless Shelter serv

Tequila is what you drink after you've run out of absolutely everything else you've been drinking, and you're so blasted that you'd do things you'd never do sober in your right mind - like dancing in the town square fountain or going home with me at the end of the evening for instance.

 

[Jay]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serv

.... or going home with me at the end of the evening for instance.

Is that what you were feeding me that night? :lol:

 

[MMMike]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serv

.... or going home with me at the end of the evening for instance.

Is that what you were feeding me that night? :lol:

:roll: Get a room you two!! Maybe we should have a 'special' forum for you fellers. :wink:

 

[Jay]

Sorry about that....I've always been in rather in touch and quite comfortable about my sexuality, so I make fun.

I think others don't think it's as funny as I do....but I say it anyways.

 

[Toro]

Hmm, I'll have to re-think that idea of sending ITN out with you on a hunting trip so he can increase his manliness quotient.

 

[bhoour]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serv

Tequila is what you drink after you've run out of absolutely everything else you've been drinking, and you're so blasted that you'd do things you'd never do sober in your right mind - like dancing in the town square fountain or going home with me at the end of the evening for instance.[/quote


There is an art to drinking it.....slowly! Drinking tequila, when you have already finished everything else, or when already blasted, is a sure way to end up in the loo........ uke: -ing up your innards. Many people have had bad experiences, because they do toooooo much tooooo fast.
Just remember to relax,lick ,shoot, then bite, and wait, paitently, for the buzz. It usally starts frrom the legs up. Repeat in about a hour.
:drunken:

If you do it right it's more of a high than a drunk. :wink:

 

[Jay]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serving beer

Hmm, I'll have to re-think that idea of sending ITN out with you on a hunting trip so he can increase his manliness quotient.

:lol:

It would do him some good!!

New York City folks though....

You can take the lad out of NYC, but you can't take the NYC out of the lad.

 

[Cosmo]

Re: RE: Homeless Shelter serving beer

mmmm ... tequila! Used to even eat the worm!

Tsk, tsk, Cosmo tequila does not have a worm in it, that is Mezcal.

Similar drink but Tequila is made a bit differently

Details smetails ... they all got me to the same place. "Instant asshole, just add booze" comes to mind.

 

[Curiosity]

Are we still on topic? Or who cares???

I don't drink any more because I don't do well with liquor....after spending hours doing makeup and hair....I deteriorate rapidly with liquor inside. So I sip Perrier and try to look intellectual....hoping the twist of lime will look sleek....

Only thing I regret about not having liquor in my life is I found out I wasn't a really good dancer....certainly not as good as the liquor told me I was....

Sobriety hasn't improved my dancing either...but now I know the truth! :wink:

 

[Cosmo]

RE: Homeless Shelter serv

lol ... na, we seem to have fallen off topic terribly.

Back to topic ... I think trying to squish homelss people into politically correct non-drinking, non-smoking environments. Easy to try to look at habits when we are safely in our homes. Street life has a whole nother set of priorities.

 

[Basic]

toronto's homeless have another option - a shelter that serves one beer an hour.

Its like a safe injection site for drug addicts. but for alcoholic homeless people.

The way we have been doing it is to say
"are you an alcoholic? Then no booze where you live"
- how dumb is that? Of course they won't live there, thats why they become homeless.

When an opiate addict goes to de-tox, the one thing they cannot have is opiates. That means doing cold turkey withdrawals, which is why more don't go there to quit.

They try to do a reduction on their own, which fails.... they need a place to go where they can reduce their doseage and then quit, but none of our de-tox centres do that. Its dumb, they treat people like they are dumb animals and then ask why they are not getting better.


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I have heard about this idea before somewhere and I think it is a great idea. An entirely new approach to helping these people and I hope it works!.