Alcohol: First Time

[T.I.P]

What age were you?..............

 

[LorneyTunes]

Probably 15 thats kinda bad ain't it lol xxxx

 

[T.I.P]

I was 15 too. Thats very acceptable. to me.

 

[Blondie Bear]

I haven't. At first it was because of my upbringing--"My mother always said beer is evil"--then later because I didn't like the smell of beer and I thought drunk people were stupid. Now it's mostly that I just haven't gotten around to it, though some of it is that my hubby is an avowed teetotaler and I'm worried he might think less of me if I drink even a single drop of alcohol.

 

[Bluebird]

What is it with us? I was 15 too! I don't know if that's wrong or what but it didn't seem that much of a big deal to me.

 

[JCC]

I've never been drunk, but I love alcohol. Whisky, rum, vodka, any strong spirits. Love the taste. Been drinking since I was 12 or so, you can drink from the age of 5 in your own home.

 

[Lyri]

*jumps on Bear's bandwagon*

Yep, another vote for 'never' here. I don't actaully know why. My upbringing was very much in the way of 'Lyri's stupid, she doesn't know any better.' So my theory was, if I start to drink and end up getting drunk in front of my family, they're gonna think I'm even more of a failure. So I stayed away from it, at least until I was older. Didn't really work out that way. Once I got old enough to go out partying with friends, I started to realized that I preferred to remember what I did the night before. I felt...weird that most of my friends would call the next morning and ask me what they did the night before. I vowed that I would never be the one to do that.

So, teetotal is me!

 

[Bluebird]

Once I got old enough to go out partying with friends, I started to realized that I preferred to remember what I did the night before. I felt...weird that most of my friends would call the next morning and ask me what they did the night before. I vowed that I would never be the one to do that.

So, teetotal is me!

That's funny - I always remember what I've done when I'm drunk, I suppose that is a good thing in a way. Stops me from making a fool of myself:whistle:

 

[Fake Shemp]

i dont care for alcohol now at all but in high school we drank even in class (cause you can have your own 'water' bottles and a mate of mine used to put together her own concoctions to make maths fun) its sad really drinking in school and smoking weed, but its just what we did. its like because we were like 13 and shouldnt be doing it then it was fun, but once you can then its not.... stupid teenage thing..... i mean my mom only found out about some of the drinking i did underage not too ling ago because we always stayed at a friends house at weekends where her room was the top floor and we were never disturbed (her father always went and got us alcohol and weirdly her family was seriously religious of the Christian variety well her mom mostly but her dad was cool... we were even dragged to church early on a sunday morning a few times!) or at my friends house whos father owned a local shop (that was up the road from the high school) and he'd buy us alcohol cause he knew how much we wer drinking and where we were when we did. I'm nothing like that now tho.

(oh and i wasnt half as bad as charvs who totally got pissed in like every class or high in woodwork.... i was the good kid, honest)

 

[Blondie Bear]

^ I've heard of people putting vodka in water bottles. I always wondered how people didn't smell it and know exactly what was going on.

 

[Washburne]

Well the first time I guess was then I just turned 14. I was on a trip with my father and big sister. They both wanted a drink so I tagged along to the bar. My father thought it might be a good idea for me to have one if I wanted to, as he thought it was a good idea to have me supervised the first time. I had no idea that to have so I took the first thing that came to mind. James Bond drinks martinis, so that´s what I got. It was awful. But I couldn´t let my sister see me as a "wimp" so I decided to drink it as fast as possible. And let me tell you, the drink looked nothing like the kind James Bond drinks. I´m still not sure I got the right one. It had the tiniest straw you ever saw. So I drank the whole thing through the straw in about 15 seconds.

Bad idea, boy was I drunk. Not that I would admit it though. But my sister still tease me about it, and I don´t think my mother still has forgiven our father. But I´ve never been a big drinker. I can drink if I find something I like, but none alcoholic works just fine. And I never drink to get drunk, which seems to be the only reason for drinking in Sweden. Well, almost anyway.

Oh yes, I´m rambeling. Time for bed.

 

[Fake Shemp]

vodka dont smell, not in my experience... we did it on an art trip once, we all had bottles of coke with vodka in. the teachers had let us go shopping by ourselves and well we all went to buy vodka, and then went to some pub.... later found out that that was exactly what our two art teachers had done too!

and as for in school, the charvas wer far worse so we were just the hippy rocker kids who got away with stuff cause we had good grades and didnt get in trouble.... teachers usually had a lot of other kids fighting or girly bitching to deal with to notice us.

 

[Blondie Bear]

See, that just goes to show my complete lack of experience with alcohol. I was at a wedding recently and completely shocked by how alcohol-y the wine smelled, yet how not-alcohol-y the whiskey smelled. I have no idea what to expect with what drinks smell and what don't.

 

[T.I.P]

Best drink ever. and i mean EVER. Buckfast

 

[LorneyTunes]

you have went wrong buckfast it is the devils water x

 

[Bluebird]

Best drink ever. and i mean EVER. Buckfast

Nah, Irn-Bru and vodka is the best.

 

[Black Eye Guy]

I dont actually remember, it was prob between 16 - 18.

I know It wasn't till I was over 18 that I got drunk and had shots and stuff, and it's been all down hill from there.

I hate drinking in front of my family, Year before last on New years I was at a friends and I had like 13 shots and then downed half a liter of sambucca (sp?)and ended up in hospital and had to be collected by my entire family and now I just hate it cuz theres always the jokes.

 

[Lyri]

The only time I ever remember any of my friends drinking in high school was when I was called out of class to come to the nurses office when one boy, who lived a couple streets away from me, decided it was a really good idea to down 4 straight shots of vodka before he got the bus that morning. He had to be sent home, but his parents were at work, so they needed my permission to call my grandfather to see if he could come take the boy home. He ended up going to my grandparents house as his parents weren't in, and crashing on the couch all day. That was fun...not, lol.

 

[InsaneMystic]

*cough* I don't remember it myself, of course - but people told me it was at the age of FOUR. Strolling around a party drinking the dregs of the stuff the grownups left in their glasses... bad idea.

To my credit, didn't touch the stuff again until I was 14, when my parents let me in on the New Years Eve punch & champagne.

 

[definition of insane]

I probably was about 17 when I got good and proper drunk, but I always remember being a little kid and mum or dad would let me have some of their Baileys or Wild Peach (and my mother bought me passion pop and vodka cruisers for my after prom bash...while I still wasn't legal) so I guess for me it was kind of a like a "whoa, too much!" sort of experience.

Hasn't stopped me though....I've had that experience again far more times than I can count.