{"id":10697,"date":"2012-10-12T19:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2012-10-12T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:59:52","slug":"child-served-whisky-how-to-go-into-maximum-overkill-mode-over-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10697","title":{"rendered":"Child Served Whisky – How To Go Into Maximum Overkill Mode Over Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Whisky\"This story has been doing the rounds today<\/a>. It tells how a child, aged 2, was accidentally served with whisky instead of fruit juice in a restaurant.<\/p>\n

If you read the story, you are forced to conclude that his mother was in \u201ca panic and rage\u201d, was \u201ccrying\u201d, and the toddler was in an alcohol-induced coma and had to be rushed to hospital because his life was at risk, and is apparently now \u201crecovering at home\u201d. You are left with the impression that he\u2019d been served neat whisky in a shot glass, and that the restaurant staff couldn\u2019t care less!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s now important to read between the lines, referring to the photo of him drinking the whisky.<\/p>\n

The drink is in a tumbler, filled to the brim. Even if it was<\/strong> a double – as his mother claimed, without proof – it was watered down to about the same volume as a can of drink (say, around 330ml). He had apparently taken \u201cten sips\u201d of this diluted mix, which couldn\u2019t have amounted to more than a quarter of the whole drink – probably much less. He\u2019d get a bigger hit from a dose of Calpol!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but the one thing that this story proves is that children shouldn\u2019t be allowed in bloody restaurants in the first place. Then innocent mistakes a like this wouldn\u2019t have to be turned into dramas by attention-seeking parents.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of an incident when I was at school. The lab technician – who, looking back, must have been 17 or thereabouts – was boasting to my biology class how he\u2019d made a teacher drunk by dropping a thimbleful of pure ethanol into her coffee. He was under the mistaken impression that pure alcohol is orders of magnitude more concentrated than when it is in, say, a pint of beer.<\/p>\n

In actual fact, a pint of typical-strength beer contains around 20ml of alcohol – probably at least FOUR thimblefuls. So the juvenile lab technician was talking crap.<\/p>\n

I would doubt that an infant taking a few sips of an alcoholic drink would be intoxicated to the degree that is suggested in the various versions of the story.<\/p>\n

(Another reason I know this is that when I was four, I got drunk after stealing four bottles of milk stout from my grandma. I got what I later – many years<\/strong> later – discovered to be \u201ca hangover\u201d. From the age of four up until I was 17 I didn\u2019t touch a single drop of alcohol as a direct result of this, and even when I started I had to force myself because I didn\u2019t like it! It took about six years before I could drink neat beer instead of shandy or a lager-top, and I still detest spirits in all forms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story has been doing the rounds today. It tells how a child, aged 2, was accidentally served with whisky instead of fruit juice in a restaurant. If you read the story, you are forced to conclude that his mother was in \u201ca panic and rage\u201d, was \u201ccrying\u201d, and the toddler was in an alcohol-induced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,102,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-general-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}