IT’S happened to many of us. A drop too much of the hard stuff and you’re having a snooze on the sofa, only to be woken up by the arrival of a friend or relative shouting, “You drunken sot” or words to that effect.

Sure enough, in Coronation Street ( ITV1) an alcoholically debilitated person is stretched out with a bottle of Shiraz under his arm. There are plenty of people it could be, as the Weatherfield branch of Alcoholics Anonymous currently has a waiting list.

The location is Carla’s flat and we know she’s a woman who likes a drink or two. Or three. Or four.

So does her lover Peter Barlow, the man who put the bar in Barlow.

Alas, the drunken corpse is none other than reformed alcoholic Peter’s young son Simon, a child so irritating that he could drive me to drink if he was old enough to pass his driving test.

Little Simon finds a bottle of red wine – a 1992 Shiraz for the connoisseurs among you – and drinks it like cherryade. It’s a serious situation (remember, children, don’t try this at home) and Simon is taken to hospital.

Happily, he recovers enough to tell his dad the reason he’s drinking – and stealing too – is because he hates his life as Peter and Leanne engage in a tug-of-war for custody of the boy.

Peter takes drastic action. He invites Leanne round to the flat for a drink. No, only joking. Once she’s there, Peter asks Simon one question: who would he rather live with – him or Leanne?

Round at the Rovers, Sunita has got her feet under the table.

Landlady Stella has taken her in after she fell out with hubby Dev.

The new arrangement is very good, feels Sunita. Not least because her secret lover Karl, who’s Stella’s man, lives under the same roof. How very cosy.

Equally deceitful are another pair of secret snoggers, Cameron and Chas, in Emmerdale (ITV1).

The pair have gone on a dirty weekend, with Cam telling pregnant fiancee Debbie that he’s off to see his children in Jersey.

Alas, the plan goes awry when one of Cam’s kids phones home and Cain Dingle takes the call.

“Hello, hello, hello, what’s going on here, then?” he wonders. If Cam has gone to visit his children, why are they phoning him?

Romance in EastEnders ( BBC1) where Mad Max and Tanya are getting to grips - literally - as they try to recover from his roving eye and her cancer. They have a disagreement at the car lot with their blazing row turning to blazing passion. They end up on the office desk, although health and safety dictates I should warn them to watch out for loose paperclips as they get everywhere.

Their daughter Abi also gets a proposal from Jay, the troubled teen who’s not been feeling himself (or Abi) since he witnessed Evil Ben killing Big Hevv. Jay will do anything to get away from the Mitchell family and marrying Abi seems to good way to achieve that.

Abi has other things on her mind – the prospect of a trip to Costa Rica (which she thought was a coffee shop until her teacher enlightened her). Which will she choose: marriage to an accessory to murder or the trip of a lifetime?