Your Morning Martini and Smoke

[telescopes]

This really is a bilge topic to be quite honest.

When I was preparing to retire, there was a breakfast place on the strip in Palm Springs called Peabody's. Some of you will know of it. It was a place where retired folks could meet, read the paper, smoke, and have a Bloody Mary. I always thought that once retired, I might find myself there on a Tuesday morning, just because I could.

Anyway, Covid killed the legend. However, Hair of the Dog still operates. Occasionally, I will drive there, light up my pipe, open up my paper, and have a gin martini. It's a pleasant way to start the morning and at 7 AM only the regulars are there - generally watching soccer games.

My question is really, are there other morning pipe smokers out there who occasionally relax with a pipe and drink and enjoy a morning that most simply can not because they are at work?

I am not promoting morning drinking...LOL. But I do allow myself at least one such day once a month as a way to toast freedom.

Morning Tea or Coffee really doesn't count because to be honest, that is what I do the other 29 days of the month.

 

[ashdigger]

Quite a few Sunday morning’s start with a spicy Bloody Mary and a nice bowl of Capstan Blue.

Then I finish with a a Thermos of Black Coffee.

That plan is on hold until my patio cover, damaged during recent heavy storms in Las Vegas.

By the time the cover is fixed the weather will be glorious in the mornings

 

[bullet08]

Weekend morning drinks were mandatory when I was younger. If I drink in the morning now days, I can't function for the rest of the day. Only drink if I plan to pass out.

 

[Scottmi]

Ramos Gin Fizzes by the pitcher on weekend mornings at that pier in San Francisco "back in the day." No so much morning tipples these days, unless it fortifies my coffee in the cooler months...

 

[Sgetz]

If I drink before 5 pm I'm wrecked for the rest of the day. So , while l like the image . It's not for me. Coffee. The real stuff (Italian style) not that weird stuff you Americans drink(sic)

 

[Chasing Embers]

Working a 7/12 second shift, no alcohol for me until 4:30 am at the earliest prior to going to bed. When I was a kid I was all about a beer and a pizza after waking up but that time is long past.

 

[JOHN72]

.I was wrong again. Can John delete? Sorry.

 

[RookieGuy80]

Not since I was still enlisted back in my very late teens and early 20s.

 

[seaweed]

If I had a drink at 7 am, I’d be back asleep by 8 am.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Back when I used to drink, I loved a good ole "hair of the dog". Bloody Mary, Mimosa, a Grolsch with my coffee. Great way to start the day.

 

[LotusEater]

I have a friend or two over to watch English Premier League some weekends - this always involves coffee and bourbon or Irish cream with breakfast during the early game/s. Depending on who is playing there may be some beer drinking or bourbon tasting during the mid morning game.

Vacation days at the lake or in Mexico often begin with a Mimosa, Margarita or Bloody Mary.

My pipes definitely get smoked on these occasions but they’d be smoked anyway even if I weren’t drinking.

Generally speaking I don’t enjoy morning drinking or day drinking that much. I’m more of a happy hour evening drinker these days.

 

[trouttimes]

I love a Bloody Mary or Bloody Bull in the morning. As they say down here in the South…Beer ain’t just for breakfast any more. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.

 

[BCF]

Back in the old days of tailgating at football games, noon kick-offs required the early morning cracking of beers, and other goodies. Nowadays, I wait till noon to drink a beer, although this thread is making me thirsty!

 

[orlandofurioso]

Back when I used to drink, I loved a good ole "hair of the dog". Bloody Mary, Mimosa, a Grolsch with my coffee. Great way to start the day.

A Grolsch , really ?
As in the traditional Dutch beer brewery founded 1615 ?

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Back in the old days of tailgating at football games, noon kick-offs required the early morning cracking of beers, and other goodies. Nowadays, I wait till noon to drink a beer, although this thread is making me thirsty!

The 6am tailgate for a night game resulted in many a rough evenings for the amateur crowd. Good thing I was a professional.

Michigan State limited tailgating to about 3 hours before the game when I was in grad school ... for a very good reason.

 

[BCF]

The 6am tailgate for a night game resulted in many a rough evenings for the amateur crowd. Good thing I was a professional.

Michigan State limited tailgating to about 3 hours before the game when I was in grad school ... for a very good reason.

Oh good Lord!! My liver winced a bit reading this!!

 

[vosBghos]

My hangover cure is to shotgun a PBR make a French press add a shot of Jameson to the coffee/s smoke a big bowl of Five Brothers and head to the taco cart for some Carnitas.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Back in the old days of tailgating at football games, noon kick-offs required the early morning cracking of beers, and other goodies. Nowadays, I wait till noon to drink a beer, although this thread is making me thirsty!

Was thinking the same! Other than a frilly mimosa I had in Cali a couple of years ago any morning (read upon awakening, not after midnight) drinking I’ve ever done was while tailgating around Kinnick Stadium way back in the day. Parents of friends and complete strangers were happy to share and we looked for Illinois folks because their beer wasn’t limited to 3.2, lol. Back in the pre 9/11 days a healthy tailgate often required a search for no lines and a sanitary restroom and the well kept secret? — head over to a particular floor of the hospital across the street and back in my seat before kickoff! Can’t do that now!

 

[BCF]

Pre 9/11 days at Beaver Stadium, you could leave and re-enter the stadium. You could either head out at half time to "refuel" and head back in re-energized, or, and this was most common in our group, we'd all leave at halftime, and give our ticket stubs to our tailgate friends who'd been steadily whooping it up. My Pop called them the second half reinforcements! What a blast!!

 

[El Capitán]

I enjoy a nice mojito in the morning on weekends while I smoke a cigar.