Re: Train Wreck

"Hunter" <buffhunter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In article <lqv0k35d2d4mai6ne0lf0t06qa5q520dh0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Star Gate SG1
> (don't bother....send to this newsgroup) says...
>> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:55:32 -0500, "sharon" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>> >He just got home that day and he was drinking beer and eating pizza. 
>> >It's
>> >very likely he hadn't opened the freezer yet.  Abby wasn't expecting
him
>> >until the following day, she just hadn't gotten around to relocating
her
>> >stash.
>> But Luca is a doctor.   Whouldn't he be able to detect it by 1.   the
>> smell.  2. and looking at her?   When you spend years in the ER you
>> get pretty adept at dectecting when a person is on drugs/alchohol. Not
>> just the smell but the other clues that would scream out to
>> an experienced doctor like Luka that she is drunk as a skunk.  In fact
>> i'd wager that probably could predict with incredible accuracy what
>> the blood alcohol of a patient would be before he even runs the test.
>> He's probably seen so many over the years in the ER that he could
>> identify it.
> ----
> I admit this makes sense although I would say that alcohol affects
people
> in different ways, especially if you have built up a high tolerance for
> it. Not that a 40 year old who have been drunk for 20 years wouldn't be
> effected in terms of fine motor skills as a 17 year old on his first
> binge, but the 40 year old could hide it more. Like being able to walk a
> straight line after 10 drinks while it would lay out the 17 year old and
> perform other gross motor skills. In the case of Abby perhaps Luka just
> wasn't looking for the signs and assumed that Abby was just tired from a
> long day at work in combination with that she has the experience and
> tolerance to hide it. Plus I don't think she drunk that much that day.
> -- 
> ----->Hunter
>
Since she arrived directly from work, I'd hope she'd not been drinking at 
all at that point.  During the evening, he was busy with his brother, 
chances are, she kept to herself and didn't say much while drinking
herself 
to oblivion.

Sharon