Boozing it up
Mrs. ___, a resident at an elderly care home, sits partially paralysed in her wheelchair at a Friday Happy Hour event.
Staff Member: Here you go Mrs. ___. There's your beer. I put a straw in it to make it easy to get to. All the rest of you okay?
Others at Table: [nodding vaguely in assent]
Staff Member: Great! Shout if you need anything.
Mrs. ___'s Friend: You're so lucky.
Mrs. ___: Hmmm?
Mrs. ___'s Friend: The straw. They always said you get drunk a lot faster if you suck it through a straw. . . .
Mrs. ___: [rapidly alternates drinking sips of beer and blowing bubbles through the straw into the glass, filling the glass up with beer bubbles]
Staff Member: Everyone okay over here?
Mrs. ___: I don't know what's wrong. This beer is nothing but foam.
Staff Member: Oh! They must have poured that one off the top? Let me get you a better one. [momentarily returns with a full glass of beer]
Mrs. ___: Thank you. [resumes drinking the second beer through the straw]
Staff Member: Here you go Mrs. ___. There's your beer. I put a straw in it to make it easy to get to. All the rest of you okay?
Others at Table: [nodding vaguely in assent]
Staff Member: Great! Shout if you need anything.
Mrs. ___'s Friend: You're so lucky.
Mrs. ___: Hmmm?
Mrs. ___'s Friend: The straw. They always said you get drunk a lot faster if you suck it through a straw. . . .
Mrs. ___: [rapidly alternates drinking sips of beer and blowing bubbles through the straw into the glass, filling the glass up with beer bubbles]
Staff Member: Everyone okay over here?
Mrs. ___: I don't know what's wrong. This beer is nothing but foam.
Staff Member: Oh! They must have poured that one off the top? Let me get you a better one. [momentarily returns with a full glass of beer]
Mrs. ___: Thank you. [resumes drinking the second beer through the straw]