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If I'm not putting out snacks at 5 to signal "cocktail hour," they are both asking for food because they're "peckish," but of course the focus is on the drink.

Now that I am Preggo and have a toddler, and I'm making dinner, it's just enough already. Just pour yourself a freaking drink.[/quote]

Turn it over to them. Come home with a grocery bag and show them: "I got some Marcona almonds to go with your drinks tonight, and I'm going to put the limes in the left-hand crisper. Do you know where everything else is? Between Larla and the baby-to-be, 5 o'clock keeps showing up unannounced, so I thought you might rather handle happy hour on your own."[/quote]

I suspect it's just annoying that the pretense is being hungry when all they really want is the drink. Just be honest and say you want a drink.[/quote]

The generation with an ingrained need for a cocktail at 5 also has an ingrained need that it's not nice to demand liquor. Your "honest" is their "pushy" or "greedy." Accept that and move on. If you can spin it as, "You know what would really help me? If you would pour yourself a stiff drink," everyone can be happy. [/quote]

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