"mike regish" writes:

And you noticed the vast majority of patrons in those bars doing the same
thing, right?

The personal examples are to refute the claim that it's *impossible*
to spend the night in the bar without getting drunk. I think it's
been pretty thoroughly refuted at this point.

Now you're changing the question -- is it common? No, not terribly.
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