If someone whips out an actual hip flask, I would notice too. I don't think that someone noticing is the social threshold, here. Rather, it's whether pulling

If someone whips out an actual hip flask, I would notice too. I don't think that someone noticing is the social threshold, here. Rather, it's whether pulling one out makes a stir, or causes you to stir as your rearrange your surroundings to accomodate what you've carried along with you. If one or more people see you pull it out, but everyone carries on with what they were doing, then it's like a hip flask. Even if an isolated individual rolls their eyes in judgement as you bathe your neurons in a rush of dopamine.