Drinking in airports?

[westtexas]

I'm a nervous flyer so a glass of red wine right before the flight helps ease the nerves

+1. This is why I have a beer or two. And then you buy a bottle of water to drink on the plane. If the flight's under 3 hours you won't even have to use the bathroom.

[ny biker]

+1. This is why I have a beer or two. And then you buy a bottle of water to drink on the plane. If the flight's under 3 hours you won't even have to use the bathroom.

Maybe you won't, but I will.

[indysteel]

Maybe you won't, but I will.

Me, too!!! Being on a plane is like a cue to my bladder to become even more overactive.

[westtexas]

Me, too!!! Being on a plane is like a cue to my bladder to become even more overactive.

Ah well... many years of long bus trips with no available facilities and being the only woman (well, girl at the time) in the group taught my bladder to buck up and wait

[Crankin]

I usually have that glass of wine on flights to Europe, or if I'm in first class (now that DH doesn't fly so much, not very often).
I don't usually drink on my trips to Phx and San Diego, but it doesn't mess me up to have one drink, any more than if I had it at home!
I just can't be perfect all of the time and worry about dehydration, having to pee, etc. I will get up to go if the seatbelt sign is on... really, I've never been stopped. I wouldn't do it in turbulence, but other times, yes.

[OakLeaf]

Oh goodness, the last thing I'm doing is trying to be perfect.

It's just that there are some things that make me feel so sick that I don't even desire them one little bit. Ice cream is one. Alcohol at 35,000 feet is another.

[zoom-zoom]

Me, too!!! Being on a plane is like a cue to my bladder to become even more overactive.

I think it's the vibration. I swear I have to pee FAR more when I'm in the car than I would just sitting at home. I think the vibration sets-off bladder contractions...enough where I can feel like I have to pee like a racehorse, even if I really don't have an overly full bladder.

[westtexas]

I think it's the vibration. I swear I have to pee FAR more when I'm in the car than I would just sitting at home. I think the vibration sets-off bladder contractions...enough where I can feel like I have to pee like a racehorse, even if I really don't have an overly full bladder.

Then whatever you do, don't come to west Texas. You'd go out to ride with me and we'd have to stop every 10 feet The roads here are so bad and even with full carbon I get quite a buzz from the crappy paving.

[zoom-zoom]

Then whatever you do, don't come to west Texas. You'd go out to ride with me and we'd have to stop every 10 feet The roads here are so bad and even with full carbon I get quite a buzz from the crappy paving.

Ha, we have chipseal roads like that here in MI. I know where all the big trees and shrubs are! And, really, it HAS been better since I went from aluminum to carbon. I had to pee mid-ride a LOT more last year!

[pll]

I think it's the vibration. I swear I have to pee FAR more when I'm in the car than I would just sitting at home. I think the vibration sets-off bladder contractions...enough where I can feel like I have to pee like a racehorse, even if I really don't have an overly full bladder.

I think it is the *boredom* of being in a plane (or driving). In a long flight (my longest non stop flights have been close to 16 hours), I'm looking for *any* excuse to get up and walk around.

[indysteel]

Ah well... many years of long bus trips with no available facilities and being the only woman (well, girl at the time) in the group taught my bladder to buck up and wait

My bladder has changed with age. I'm not se old you are, don't be surprised if your ability to hold it in changes in time.

[Aggie_Ama]

I have had a beer once in an airport before we flew to Seattle. It was kind of a celebratory, raise my glass to my Nanny. When she passed we (DH and I) received a very small portion of her life insurance. We chose to take a trip somewhere she would have enjoyed and chose Seattle because she loved water and rain, she also loved a good drink. Although I couldn't stomach a bourbon and coke (her fav), we did toast her memory with a Shiner Bock. Otherwise we're too cheap for overpriced airport fare.

[malkin]

The first time I was at the SLC airport, I stopped at the snack place for a beer, and the clerk looked both ways, and served me a beer with one of those paper boats that a hot dog comes in. "If anyone asks, just say you ate the hot dog."

The law required food to be ordered with a beer.

[Grog]

I discovered these last few years that any red wine intake in the 6 hours prior to a flight (or during one) will promptly be rejected through vomiting as soon as the plane takes off. I don't know about beer. I have no idea how come this started happening to me, and it took me a while to link cause to effect, but I just don't want to risk it anymore. Yuk.

[skinimini]

I discovered these last few years that any red wine intake in the 6 hours prior to a flight (or during one) will promptly be rejected through vomiting as soon as the plane takes off. I don't know about beer. I have no idea how come this started happening to me, and it took me a while to link cause to effect, but I just don't want to risk it anymore. Yuk.

Oh Grog how awful for you--I think I would abstain from anything!

For me, bloody Mary as we speak!