“You can’t talk to a drunk. It almost always makes them worse. Ignore them, leave, call the police, or find someone to kick their ass!”

-Pepper

“I’ve been behind this bar since I was seventeen. Its my job to nip the problem in the bud. The job of a good bar tender is to tell them when they’ve had enough. For the most part people that stay with beer are fairly mellow. When people start drinking the hard shit you see the animal. Mixing the whiskey with the beer is trouble. Whiskey is an accelerator. The sad part is the worst ones won’t remember what they did the next day. So there’s no learning process or self-regulation.”

-Massy

“Fucking kick their head in and drag them fifty feet from the establishment.”

-Tattoo Rick

“I can kick his stupid ass to begin with. What’s he gonna do when he’s so drunk he can’t walk straight? All I have to do is remind the fool what’s gonna happen if he keeps up with the nonsense. That whiskey grows two big balls, but takes away what ya need ta back ‘em up.”

-Sand Man

“Drinken’ this shit brings out the beast. I’m a jerk when I’m drunk. I’ve been barred from every bar in Highlandtown and Greek Town. Being loud, brave and stupid all at once really changes the way people treat you. Fuck ‘em.”

-Daniel

“I’d start out drinking at the upscale end of town with a client. A few hours later he’s home with the wife, and I’m drinking with some working guys at a descent blue-collar bar. By the wee hours of the morning I’m drinking next to a broken down slob propped up in the corner of a bar in East Baltimore. We might be the only ones there. But as long as he’s there I’m still not a drunk, because I can point to him and say, ‘Now that’s a drunk.’ When you drink that way you always want to drink where you feel superior. I thought I was having a great time until the judge told me what I was.”

-Ted

“I only drink under certain social conditions; like with my school buddies at the Country Music Jamboree, where a certain amount of rowdiness is tolerated, and I have friends capable of restraining me in case things get crazy. My tendency to become hateful when drunk is bothersome, so I drink infrequently. My involvement in the combat arts is—I think—part of this need to maintain self-control, especially since I have a family.”

-Dan