Happy birthday monstro, and please celebrate in a way that pleases you most of all. That said, it’s not necessarily evil for a friend to encourage you, on such an occasion, to try new things. In a bar, of course, that involves certain precautions, so have a ride home arranged before you leave the house.
Sweet but not-“girly” drinks include: rum and coke, kamikazes (vodka, triple sec, lime juice), stingers (brandy or vodka), margaritas (especially if they’ll coat the glass with half-sugar, half-salt), ouzo-pernod-sambuca (if you love licorice), and frankly, most shots the bartender is prepared to make.
If you’re going to a bar/restaurant that has ice cream, get a chocolate milkshake with extra chocolate syrup and several shots of rum.
Order a glass of tonic water with a slice of orange in it. Or lemon, or lime. Tell your friend that is the kind of mature and sophisticated drink that a 40 year old should order. Then ask her why she didn’t order one.
I love gimlets. That’s with gin, of course. A vodka gimlet is not a gimlet.
I had a boyfriend who drank Scotch, but I couldn’t stand the taste (even though I’m nearly 50% Scottish – guess it’s not genetic). One night he said he was going to get me to be a Scotch drinker. I wasn’t half-way through the first drink when he took it away from me and told me I was a waste of good Scotch. Apparently, I’d been grimacing with every sip.
Sounds like you have a working plan, so I’ll just say Happy Birthday. Although the geeky side of me did find a decent Holy Hand Grenade recipe online, if she refuses to make a recommendation. Also found dozens of horrible recipes, but one good one.
One thing I like when I’m at a bar and don’t feel like really drinking is a Ginger Ale with a splash of bitters. The bitters is alcoholic but as long as the bartender doesn’t go crazy you’ll hardly have any booze in your drink.
What gigi said. One of my best friends and workmates goes out drinking with us sometimes. Know what she drinks? Chocolate milk. We kid her about it, but I wouldn’t dream of pressuring her into drinking something else, much less alcohol.
Order a Shirley Temple and gently but firmly tell your friend that you would like her to stop telling you what she thinks you should be drinking. You’re old enough to do what you want. Cool is for losers.
heh make her back up her mouth and just order a shot of anything 101or 151 saying she has to drink it with you and then laugh when they hurl at the second shot
when I drank I wouldn’t stop until I was pretty much unconscious so there was as rule that I couldn’t drink anything straight and I had to drink it slow … no problem until this he man after watching me sip a few fruity drinks decided he was going to "show me how a real man drinks "
Boss wasn’t there and new girl was serving …old timers at the bar got an amused " oh shit " on their face I pointed out the bottle of barcardi 151 a bottle of ice 101 (101 proof schnapps) and something else that tasted like you could use it to start a car on a cold day
I said pour us a glass of each .and well drink for a while but who ever heaved first pays …well long story short 20 minutes later he was heaving in the parking lot and I was drinking straight from the MIXED bottle …he was out about a good c note or so … he never complained about what anyone drank again as far as I know …
I say get something really not sweet, and then make a pull out a bunch of sugar packets and add it, in full view of the friend.
Or, okay, maybe some other playful banter back about it. Point is, if she offered the advice in a joking way, then tease back to let her know you’d rather not.
Seems to work for me in situations with friendly teasing. She’s your friend, so I assume you don’t think she’s being an actual jerk, so just play along.
I drink Scotch, and my wife can’t stand the taste. I’ve never dreamed of trying to get her to be a Scotch drinker – not because I’m a darned nice guy, but because, uh, why the heck would I want her raiding my supply of Scotch?
