I don't find it necessary to run to the authorities with every infraction I observe, but I don't want people whose abilities and judgment may be impaired by one or another substance working on MY projects.


I doubt you can find any place at all where I called anyone a drug addict or an alcoholic. Per is the one who made that leap. I simply commented on what I saw, and smelled. As I said above, I simply don't want people who routinely use intoxicants on the job working on my projects.



I won't go so far as to claim that someone who happens on the one occasion I see him/her, to be clearly intoxicated with obvious alcohol on his/her breath, and alcoholic. Alcoholism is, after all, more than just having a couple of beers or a shooter of "Old Tennis-shoes" at mid-afternoon, but it suggests a lax attitude toward one's responsibility toward one's customers. I certainly wouldn't want to be on the same streets and highways with people who think that's all right.

As for the "weed," well, I don't like the fact that so many people feel it's O.K. to thumb their nose at the law of the land and use it despite its illegality, but I'm not charged with enforcing those laws. I don't approve of such behavior and would certainly have intervened if my kids had been so engaged, but ... fortunately ... they weren't.

RE