Hi All,

I LUV Southwest for all the freebie drink coups they used to send me when I'd hit the old award ticket threshold, but lately, I've seen some things that worry me. Now, I'm all about a free drink, maybe two during a flight, but if I'm sitting in an emergency exit row (by choice!!!), I'd say one is more than enough (and I'm not religious or a recovering AA)...

This has started happening more and more often now - maybe it has something to do with the fact that the vouchers have an expiration date on them. Anyways, here's the one that blew my mind...

PDX/MDW nonstop, young guy, maybe 25 or 26, presented four drink vouchers and was served 4 energy drinks mixed with 4 mini-bottles of vodka by young attractive FA.

I'm sitting in aisle, him in window, nobody in the middle. About two hours into the flight, he is sleeping/passed out (still breathing). I start thinking to myself, what if there was an emergency and he (but probably me) needed to actually use the emergency exit to assist other pax??? He was totally sloshed and incoherent/non-functioning. Plus, how the h*** was he able to sleep after FOUR energy drinks - I'd probably have a heart attack!!

Again, I'm not saying don't serve alcoholic drinks to pax sitting in exit row, just have a limit. I guess I kind of see it as the same reason FAs, FOs, and Pilots can't drink before/during the flight. Plus, we boarded first and he could have sat elsewhere if he planned to binge drink during the flight.

What do you think?