# For those of you who DON'T drink...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-you-who-dont-drink/88414>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 19, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-you-who-dont-drink/88414 "2001-10-19T13:35:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-you-who-dont-drink/88414/41 "2001-10-22T17:32:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by bluethree \*  
> \*\ ***Mnementh** , if you ask me why I don’t drink, and I say, “Because I choose not to,” are you going to leave it at that? Or do you REAAAAAALLLLYYY need to know? \*\*

I’ll leave it at that. I have things myself I’m sensitive to talk about, and when someone says ‘I just don’t want to’ or something of the like, I’ll happily let it drop. The initial asking is, like I said before, pure curiosity on my part.

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> \*Originally posted by breaknrun \*  
> \*\*If we’re out for dinner and you offer me a roll and I turn it down, are you going to say “why? don’t you like bread?” \*\*

This rather brought the point home for me. No, I wouldn’t ask why you didn’t want bread, I’d assume you just didn’t feel like it right then. Why should alcohol be any different?

I will admit to being overly curious about things I shouldn’t be; I’m a rather unshy person and I sometimes forget that other people aren’t as willing to share their personal lives with total strangers as I am. I do, however, apologise for my rudeness once I realise what I’ve done.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-you-who-dont-drink/88414/42 "2001-10-22T19:07:52Z")

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\*Originally posted by Venoma \*  
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> _Originally posted by Felinecare \*  
> …My response is to get in his face and respond “… and if I don’t, you’re going to do what?” (May not have been the best response, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.)_\*

No, that’s a great response! Good for you for knowing your limits, setting them, and standing by them.

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