As long as you just stayed in the parking lot, you might make a good designated decoy.
Me too. That’s why I drink. I’m boring otherwise: too terrified of losing control 
Only once in my life. Never again will I be that incredibly stupid.
Well it certainly doesn’t make parties *less *fun.
I’ve never been in a Starbucks. Since I don’t drink coffee, I’ve never had any reason to go there.
I’ve never had alcohol. I’m actually afraid of drunk people, I really hate it. I’m not sure why really, I’ve never had any exceptionally bad experiences with people who were influenced by alcohol. It’s just a general thing of feeling naturally uncomfortable once people get that buzz, and I seem to notice the effects occurring sooner than most people pick up on the change in personality (granted I’m not willing to put my money on a double blind test there). It’s just so surreal, like this weird unleashing of personality traits that were noticeably there but suppressed being unleashed.
I don’t want this to read like I’m saying people shouldn’t use alcohol, or even not use it around me, I’m the one with the problem here so on the odd occasion it pops up (I’ve never been to a party or even a “yeah no one is coming drunk to this” school dance, so it’s pretty much restricted to family) I deal, it’s really uncomfortable, but I deal.
Oddly enough, I’d probably try LSD if given the opportunity, the only thing that makes me hesitate is the thing I heard about flashbacks years after the trip. But that’s more like “I guess if it was there, I was feeling daring that day, and I was being pressured a little that’s one of the few things I’d give in to.” Same for things like mescaline and sage (hallucinogens absolutely fascinate me for some reason if you can’t tell). But that’s not what this thread is about.
It’s called pacing.
I am 100% certain you’ve been around people who were drunk, but you didn’t realize it.
I am with you on that one! I was hospitalized with pneumonia and pleurisy several years ago (an experience I would not wish on my worst enemy), and when Demerol did nothing to relieve the pain, they switched me to Dilaudid. Holy crap, it wasn’t just relief from pain, it was relief from caring about anything. It felt so good that it truly was scary. I was very glad to be able to stop taking it.
And it made a firm believer out of me; I will campaign for Dilaudid for my patients when nothing else seems to help.
I’m always the DD, or at least I used to be in my gallivanting days. Now I’m on SO lockdown. 
I don’t drink alcoholic beverages at all. Beer has the aroma of urine to me (why would anyone drink that stuff?). I had a few sips of a wine cooler once, on recommendation. I expected sweet, but got sweet and bitter. No thanks. I don’t understand drinking anything that doesn’t taste good.
I’ve never smoked anything. The idea of inhaling a proven carcinogen seems nuts but, even discounting that, the discharge from anything smoked, be it cigarettes, pipes, cigars, or even marijuana, smells absolutely vile to me, and automatically engages my choke and tear reflexes. My seeming apoplexy is somewhat extreme and not a fun sight, nor is it a fun experience, so I try to stay as far from smokers as I can.
I’ve been drunk countless times and taken quite a variety of other intoxicating substances.
I’ve never smoked a cigarette.
I can’t get really drunk. I get to the point where I’m feeling really wonderful and then the room starts to spin. Took me a while to learn my limits, but I haven’t had the spins in decades.
While I can certainly understand a desire not to consume an alcoholic beverage there is no specific alcoholic taste that can be set aside as unique. Beer is as different from wine as grapes are from bananas. You can also drink NA beer that has the same flavor without any deleterious effects.
Some people are under the misapprehension that one must be falling down, puking, etc to be drunk.
Anything past a bit tipsy is drunk. Hell, legally speaking you are drunk after anything more than 1 drink in an hour ( 12oz beer, 1oz liquor, 4oz wine). Everybody that drinks more than 1 said drink, has been drunk. You just don’t realize it.
That said. I don’t drink hard liquor much because I get drunk and don’t like it. I like enjoying the drink and retaining my sobriety as much as possible. So I enjoy beer. I can drink it all day if I wanted, and still function.
Different people have fun in different ways.
If I ever went to a party and there wasn’t anything to drink, I’d immediately turn around and head to the nearest bar. But nobody I know is crazy enough to invite me to a dry party, so it’s never come up.
Why do you assume that there wouldn’t be alcohol at one of our parties? Just because I don’t drink the stuff doesn’t mean I mind if others enjoy it.
There seems to be a mindset here that either everyone drinks, or everyone doesn’t drink. Where is the happy medium?
I don’t know anything about your parties, and I didn’t assume anything about them. I said that I would quickly leave a party that didn’t have anything to drink.
Yep, been drunk lots. Tried pot just last summer for the first time - it didn’t do anything for me. (I’m told that the first time usually doesn’t.) I’ll probably give it a go again in the future (tho’ I have no idea where I’d even begin procuring it. Downtown, I suppose.)
Are you positive you inhaled it? I’m convinced a lot of people who claim marijuana doesn’t do anything for them aren’t actually inhaling the stuff, but either holding it in their mouth or not sucking it in at all…
I don’t think I go to “real” parties at all. This last Friday we had a Wii party. There were about 10 people and there was booze, but I dunno if I’d call it a party in a strict sense.
I have never been to a cocktail party, nor have I ever known somebody that claimed to have been to one. Is this a rich person thing? Also, never been to a dinner party, unless you count Holidays with the family. I had one person claim they had a table that sat 20 and regularly had dinner parties. Seems wierd, as I’ve never been to one or had one.
I’ve been to a lot of college drink-fests that are true parties though. I still think it is weird when a grown adult > college age claims they party a lot. Going to a bar is one thing, and discounting fancy pant type of cocktail parties, I don’t know many that go partying. When some 40 year old tells me they went a party last night I imagine them walking through a room of teenagers or college students, quite awkwardly, trying to be cool and holding a beer.
Guess I’m weird.
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