Shortly after being released from the hospital, Britney Spears was back up to her old tricks: driving around aimlessly, checking into hotels, and hanging out with Adnan Ghalib. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise! Britney’s daddy, however, was none too happy to learn about his daughter’s early exit from the psych ward. Page Six says

Jamie Spears is at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where daughter Britney holed up earlier in the day before leaving her car behind and driving away with Adnan Ghalib.An exhausted looking Jamie [wandered] the hallways with two burly security guards looking for Britney and clutching an envelope. The move came after he and wife Lynne Spears released a statement to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, expressing their frustration over Britney’s discharge from the UCLA medical center.

“As parents of an adult child in the throes of a mental health crisis, we were extremely disappointed this morning to learn that, over the recommendation of her treating psychiatrist, Britney was released from the hospital that could best care for her and keep her safe. We are deeply concerned about her safety and vulnerability, and we believe her life is presently at risk. We ask only that the court orders be enforced so that a tragedy may be averted.”

It’s just like that old saying goes — “you can take the crazy out of the hospital, but you can’t take the retard out of Britney Spears.” Have truer words ever been spoken?

Same old Britney:

After screaming belligerently at the staff for hours on end, Britney Spears removed her own IV, packed up her crazy and checked herself out of Cedars-Sinai around 9:15 Saturday morning. And what’s even better than Lithium for treating Brit’s bipolar disorder? Why, booze, sillies! Four out of five doctors¹ recommend it! People magazine reports

The pop star, accompanied by Finalpixx photographer Adnan Ghalib since a few hours after her release, popped into the Daily Grill in Palm Desert around 10 a.m. Sunday. Spears shielded herself behind large, dark sunglasses and “had a champagne mimosa to drink,” says the restaurant’s manager. “She seemed in a really good mood, laughing with the guy she was with.”

She stayed at the restaurant about an hour.

Britney Spears is one shrubbery fort and a pair of incisors away from becoming this decade’s Margot Kidder. Minus the savoir-faire and quiet dignity, of course. But that’s where the booze comes into play. Nothing classes up a dame like a case of Natty Light or a nice handle of Kentucky Bourbon. That’s why they call it “Finishing School in a Bottle.” Or maybe that was “finish school and get off the goddamn bottle you insufferable disappointment.” It was sometimes hard to understand what my dad was saying over the sound of my own vomit.

¹_{Dr. Dre, Dr. No, Dr. Feelgood, and the Groove Doctors, respectively}

More of Britney in the ambulance Thursday night: