[Drinking] Three martini lunch

jackanada said:

I've certainly known quite a few builders not averse to a cheeky pint or two on a lunch break.
Last time I drank at lunch was a few years back helping out on a concrete pour.
Four of us there for 8 and no truck. Double check everything, tweak a few bits of shuttering and scrape some dirt as much from boredom as professionalism. Bossman eventually confirms no truck until lunch. It's 10.30, pub not far away opens and has food at 11.
After a relatively sensible start consuming a pint every half hour my colleague checks on truck status again then returns with a bottle of bubbly as it's a lovely sunny day. At this point I realise any chance of getting home having sobered up is gone, but missus and baby are out that evening so I explain to her I won't see her before she leaves due to late concrete truck, then get another bottle of fizz. This was apparently provocative as a tray of shots is the next contribution to appear. This truck isn't coming. Another tray. Being the most sober sounding I call the bossman. It's a bit raucous in the background. I very substantially downplay when we went to the pub, how long we've been there and what we've drunk but it's nearly 4 there's no truck it's too late we're done. His main aggravation is that he believes knocking off time is 5, though he's always been the type to focus on the wrong details and my explanation as to why even if the truck is there now and we stay to 6 we're making a shit job of it makes no impression. We all have a few more drinks.
4.55 we are told truck is 5 minutes away and we run (literally if drunkenly) back to the job. Young lad throws up and is no use at all, supposed lead mumbles excuse and veers off towards his house.
Two of us move a lot of concrete about. The penultimate pisshead leaves and I have a lie down for an hour on some celotex before giving it all a tickle so it's not such an abortion of a job.
Preferring to be proud of my work and have decent liver function I stopped doing any more work with them, but it was a fun afternoon.

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