Being at a certain point of desperation where you'll reach over to another table and help yourself to the unfinished drink of someone who's left the lounge. Common practice of stressed-out folks about to
head into a sales call, going through divorce, or just want to put the "seed" in "seedy", and need that
extra drink. Usually practiced after
one has had a couple of drinks (to, ya know, establish that you "belong" in the establishment), and desperately reaches for some abandoned beverage in a knee-jerk,
fuck-all gesture.