Originally Posted by
serinityprayer 
When he drinks in the daytime he will go outside pretending he has something to do, and if he is nearly caught when someone goes outside he will bolt away like his butt is on fire. He thinks he is so clever and noone knows what he is doing.
XAH used to go out 'to work on his car' - or when we had a garage out to the garage to work on the 'motorcycle' (a bunch of parts) - to drink during the day. If I opened the door there'd be a clink and clatter as the bottle was hid. Smoooooooth. Nope, I didn't notice at all that all those months/years of work only resulted in a replaced dome light and a turn signal light, and a suspiciously bottle shaped lumpy oil rag. Nor did I see him stagger and stumble, slur his words, or the half-lidded eyes. Nope. He hid it all soooooo well.
Sadly, I did ignore it for a long time, though.