Drinking habits

In My Humble Opinion
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I drink a glass of wine while fixing dinner, top it off for dinner maybe 3 times a week. Other times, it’s a beer. I like beer and have at least 3 different types in the house at all times (Blue Moon, Widmer & Dos Equis at the moment). After a round of PS3 with the kids, I snuggle down into my chair at my desk and open a cold one. It’s usually only one before I’m falling asleep, maybe 2 on the weekend. On the rare occasion, it’ll be a vodka and sprite or a vodka martini. I’m the only one imbibing in the house as the hubby doesn’t drink, so, yup, I drink alone every time.

I don’t get drunk at home. Vegas, well that’s another matter. I seem to drink a lot more when I’m there. I can’t say it’s because it’s a social situation, I’ve been to many social situations here at home where I’ve not over drank. In Vegas, I seem to lose that self moderator at least for the first 2 days, then she returns.

22

Well, right now I’m pregnant, so I don’t drink anything stronger than skim milk. But I love good beer. I didn’t develop the taste for it until pretty late in my life (blame my husband), but there’s nothing better than a nice wheat beer on a hot day. My husband is just starting to get into homebrewing too. I very rarely get drunk unless it’s a special occasion or an Ohio State football game, but I used to have a beer or two with dinner almost every night.

23

I resemble that remark (the first half). I know it’s stupid but I am a really competitive person.

Anyhoo, I drink on average 2-3 beers a night. Mainly to kill time, as I’m living at home in a transition stage of life. I enjoy the feeling of being drunk, so I get plastered around once a week. I always (almost always) make sure I’m being safe though, as in no driving, no strange environments, no drinking as coping etc.

I have a few of the symptoms of alcoholism, so I am always vigilant to make sure I’m in control, not the alcohol.

24

I drink beer regularly, even by myself. To me, it is similar to morning coffee. I’ll have a couple of cups of coffee in the morning and a couple of beers in the pm. I don’t drink hard liquor very often. Usually only margaritas on a hot weekend afternoon.

25

I typically have four drinks per day, 6-8 on the weekends or holiday (white wine…no Riesling or any sodapop wine…vodka cocktails with any kind of diet soda or juice…plus world class Bloody Marys while doing the NYT Crossword Puzzle.)

26

I don’t drink anywhere near as much as I used to, guess that must mean I’m growing up and becoming responsible! I do like a glass of wine in the evening if I’m at home on my own on the sofa with a good book, but it can take me all night to drink it.

Most of the time I try not to over-do it because drunken behaviour just isn’t flattering, is it?

27

I drink sporadically. Because I don’t drink every day, or even every few days, when I do have a single drink or two, I can get buzzed quite quickly. I do like wine, vodka, beer, and I’ve rediscovered gin. (Flash–click on ‘spirits’.) That stuff is good.

My parents drank daily, both too much, so I do keep watch on myself. My dad was an alcoholic, and I suspect my mother had a milder case. They’re both deceased now.

The trouble with social drinking is that I want to have more than I should because seriously, I’m shy, and it’s a renowned social lubricant. I got smashed at the company Christmas party, and I never, ever, ever want to do that again. (I was the person they talk about when they talk about how not to enjoy the corporate Christmas party…)

But sometimes I want to be buzzed. It’s really, really enjoyable. The downside is stupidity, clumsiness, having to arrange a ride home if you’re out, the expense, the health effects, and more. If I decide that I am going to get buzzed, generally I do it at home, where I’m safe and the bed’s near. :slight_smile: There’s a fine line between happily buzzed, traipsing about the house with the music on, doing silly stuff like chores, and drunk and asleep. A little too much and I’m not happily buzzed, I’m in bed, snoring boozy breath.

I don’t come home every day after work and have a drink like my parents did, but sometimes I have two or three. Most times, nothing.

I do notice that there is a correlation between “I think I’ll have a drink or three tonight” and my menstrual cycle. I tend to have those have-a-drink notions when I’m pre-menstrual, then it goes away again.

28

I drink pretty regularly. Often three or four times a week, to the point of mild intoxication (i.e., a pleasant buzz), when I’m on dates or out with my friends. Occasionally on a weekend, I’ll drink past the pleasant buzz to the “whoa, nelly” point, but that’s usually when I’ve been drinking while dancing, and when I stop I’m like “okay, water now, thank you”. I recover quickly though, because falling-down drunk is definitely unbecoming to a woman my age.

Drinking is very much a social activity for me, though. I have a fully stocked liquor cabinet, but it’s for when guests come over. Aside from the occasional glass of wine (which is new for me, because for years I couldn’t drink wine without getting a scorching headache, and now it seems to be fine so I’m really enjoying it!), I never drink alone.

29

I enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, alone or with others. I enjoy a drink socially, although I like to be able to drive myself home. I occasionally like to have a glass by myself when I watch a movie or read a book, and I find that beer goes well with Grand Theft Auto. I rarely get drunk, though. We like to sit on the porch and I have a glass of wine while he has his cigar.

30

Why is that?

I ask because in college, drinking actually was a competitive sport in the form of Quarters, Asshole, Flip-Cup, Anchorman, Mexican, Three-Man and of course the Chess of drinking games (not counting Beer Chess), Beruit (sometimes called Beer Pong).

Looking back at the drinking habits of my friends and I, I would have to label them “excessive”. A typical weekend night starts off with pregaming at someone’s appartment, then hopping from bar to bar until closing time, then maybe some pizza.

Some people still continue that college fraternity style level of drinking well into their 30s and 40s. My last company was infamous for that. Every social function was an excuse to go out and get drunk on the company tab. And it was encouraged by senior management who would do things like buy rounds of shots or pay for bottle service at some fancy lounge in the Meetpacking district.

I have to say, I kind of miss that social aspect of my old job as they don’t do that stuff where I work now. But I was always of two minds about it. On the one hand it was a lot of fun, but on the other hand, in the back of my mind I’m like “I’m too old for this shit”. Of course the GF is happy that I’m not stumbling in at 4:00am as much anymore.

31

About the same. I’m actually a bit sporadic - I’ll go a month without touching anything at home, then decide to have a couple of beers/glasses of wine/mixed drinks and do that for couple of nights in a row. Then nothing for two weeks, etc.

I will occasionally get slightly sloshed ( a couple glasses of wine, 2-3 beers, maybe a girlie drink of some sort ) if I’m drinking at a social function and I know it is a safe venue for it - i.e. at my neighbor’s house, ten feet from my front door :). But I’m pretty responsible if I’m driving. I was at a club in SF last night and I was deliberately careful to stick to a single Guinness early in the evening.

32

There’s a difference between that and ‘Grow some nads and have a drink with me, you arsehole! Be a man!’

33

Maybe once every couple of months I’ll have a glass of wine or champagne with dinner. Two glasses is enough to get me to the tipsy stage.

My group of friends are in their early to mid 20s, and we don’t really have the stamina for heavy drinking anymore. When we were teens we used to drink steadily all night, but now we get sleepy early on and end up going to bed like grandmas.

34

I’m definitely a social type of drinker. I don’t go out much at this point, so I’m almost a non-drinker, but if I were to go out, I would not be opposed to a drink or two and actually do enjoy doing that occasionally. I rarely drink at home and I even more rarely drink alone. I don’t usually drink at all if my kids are home, although I might have a Mike’s Hard Lemonade or something like that. I can buy a 6 pack of that and it will take me 6 months to a year to finish. I don’t really like beer, I hate wine (bad Boone’s Farm Apple Wine experience when I was way too young to be drinking and since then, it gives me a headache just to smell it, no matter how “good” the wine is), hate champagne for the same reason, and hate the taste of most liquors. If I drink, I usually drink vodka and soda which doesn’t taste too boozy. I don’t mind the Mike’s lemonade stuff and I LOVE Bailey’s Irish Cream, but rarely drink it. But, having been married to an alcoholic took the fun out of drinking and there were many years when I didn’t drink at all. Now I’ll drink every once in awhile, but if someone said I could never have another drink again in my life, it wouldn’t bother me a bit.

35

I enjoy the way my mind works when drunk. My normal brain activity seems to have like 8-10 things going on at once, with background chatter of every mundane thought I have plus 2-3 lines of thinking about whatever it is I am doing or will be doing soon. When drunk, this quiets everything down to full concentration on the task and hand (Yes, drinking makes the voices in my head go away. I’ll get the joke out of the way now). When I was in a computer gaming group for the game Rainbow Six: Raven Shield, they used to encourage me to drink before competitions because I played better. Something about not hesitating as much and just shooting on instinct.

I don’t drink very often, but when I do it is usually alone and to the fullest extent of the drunken spectrum. It is either zero drinks or ten drinks, but rarely anything in between. I’ll go a few months without a drop in the house. If I stock a bottle in the freezer though, I’m likely to finish it within three days. I just don’t understand the point of drinking too much to not be able to drive but not enough to enjoy the fun feeling of being drunk.

36

Um. . .I had half a glass of wine back in January. Before that, I had half a glass of really shitty bottled sangria back in 2004. And I tried icewine and mead at a gaming session around that time.

Yeah. I’m not exactly what you’d call a heavy drinker (hell–I pretty much identify myself as a non-drinker when asked). Two alcoholic grandparents, though, so. . .y’know, I’m not going to try to push that envelope.

I really, really hate being around intoxicated people. And I have trust issues. So. . .yeah. I can think of two people in the entire world I’d drink with.

37

[Don Corleone] I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I’m drinking more.[/Don Corleone]

I quit drinking in the early seventies. I was working in a bar, and I was drinking way too much. At the time I was a rather belligerent drunk, and it just didn’t suit me. Six years ago, my wife and I left the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Episcopal Church. At the Newcomer’s Reception the pastor asked me if I would like a glass of wine. I did take the glass of wine and really enjoyed it. The next time we bought groceries, I bought a bottle of the same wine. One thing led to another, and now I am a moderate consumer of wine and beer.

I am no longer a belligerent drunk. Mostly, when I have had a little too much to drink, I just doze off in my chair…

38

I love tasty craft beer, but I almost never have more than three, and it’s usually more like one. I have previously drank way too much, and behaved like a dumbass. I learned my lesson, but not too hard, so I guess I’m lucky. If I do happen to get drunk, I’m probably out watching a band, and either walking home or have a DD. I’m working at a beer store right now, so I’ve pretty much always got some beer, but it’s pretty much always really freaking GOOD.

39

Oh yeah. That’s pretty annoying. At my last job, every time we had a happy hour (which was constantly), some idiot would buy a round of Jaeger shots (which I would then spit into my beer bottle and toss away). What are you? 17 years old?

40

As I get older I drink less by necessity. It only takes a couple of drinks to give me a headache (more specifically a back neck tension headache). I like to listen to live music and food/spirits are part of the experience. I enjoy friends/Blues/ribs/beer in that order. If it were up to me I’d have a nightcap every night but it’s painful to drink before bed. By default, I can’t stay out late drinking.