Without alcohol, even. Hurting make more money for writer. Trust me on this. Of course, she also had the benefit of Buffy's experience, here. Parker is just unbelievably arrogant slime to try this with the friend of someone he's already kicked in the teeth.
Prevention is worth a lot more than cure, kiddo.
Too bad it wasn't. Not to mention making sure that she got cut off when things started getting more than a little out of hand. I was friends with that guy. Occasionally, I had to hit that guy, hard, just to shut him up. He's gonna develop a complex, poor guy.