Right. It's not that beer is available at 10am -- obviously you can walk into any corner liquor store in the US at 10am, buy a beer, and drink it from a can hid

Right. It's not that beer is available at 10am -- obviously you can walk into any corner liquor store in the US at 10am, buy a beer, and drink it from a can hidden in a paper bag like your fellow sidewalk winos -- it's the fact that drinking at 10am in an airport is apparently perfectly respectable behavior, even for the most professional of travelers. Another facet of "airportness".