Not likely, I’ve never been to a social event since 5th grade, and it’s rather obvious when my family is drinking since A. They always do so at gatherings and B. I can see the glasses and bottles out.
I realize I’m late to the thread, but I’ve never been drunk, either.
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Do you ever go out in public? Eat at a restaurant? I doubt you really think that people only drink at social events.
This thread has been more enlightening about people who post here than any other that I have seen for a very long time.
I don’t talk to people when I go out in public, I keep to myself and only talk to vendors if I need to buy something. I haven’t eaten out (outside of a couple isolated family gatherings) in years, I’m not even sure what the names of any good restaurants are. I’ve been in an arcade and movie theater a couple times, but I never talked to anyone else that I wasn’t there with specifically so if there was someone drunk there I can’t really fairly say I “interacted” with them, but I guess on the flipside MOL is right and I didn’t notice it. The only other place I go is class. I suppose it’s possible a cashier or student came to work/school intoxicated once or twice, but I doubt it.
Never been drunk, never want to be. I just don’t like the taste of any alcoholic beverage enough that I’d want to drink enough to get drunk. Besides, I hate hate hate the “drunk stories” people tell, and there’s no way I want to be one of the idiotic subjects in such a story.
Well sure, and if I based my opinion of cars on the accidents you hear about on the news, I’d never want to drive a car either… But you do realize that the “drunk stories” you hear are only stories because something interesting/significant happened, right? I bet for every one of those stories they have there are dozens of boring stories were people just got inebriated and fell asleep.
I’ve never been drunk.
I have, when prodded, drunk wine as part of a gourmet dinner, but for the most part it is totally lost on me, tasting like grape juice that has turned. I’ve drunk a glass of champagne at New Years. The most I’ve ever drunk at one time was when visiting friends in England, where all social life seems to revolve around the pub. Virtually impossible to avoid alcohol there. I loath the taste of beer, so I had a cider. It’s very tasty, and I had more than one in the course of the evening. That led to a warm feeling.
As to why I’ve never had any desire to get drunk? No peer pressure due to a total lack of peers. I am, basically, a loner - though one in a stable 28 year relationship. But it’s OK, because we’re both loners.
The “no peers” thing also covers never having been tempted to do any non-prescription drugs. My only experience with any sort of “high” was via my dentist. I have a severe needle phobia, so he gives me nitrous oxide to calm me before the Novocaine - and I was pretty wasted during the period of recovery from oral surgery when he took me all the way out. Didn’t get the appeal.
I’ve never smoked, or had the slightest temptation to try it. My father died of lung cancer when I was 16, and it is a very ugly way to go.
I’ve had three drinks in an hour or so, but I’ve never really been drunk-drunk.
Certainly not; I’m going to one tomorrow. I just checked my banking statements, and I can assure you I am not rich.
What do you mean you’ve never been to a social event since 5th grade? Are you in the 6th grade? You never go anywhere?
Correct. 99% of my drunk nights involve my friends and me drinking, talking, then going home. In fact, yesterday after work I went to the bar for 2-for-1 Happy Hour. My friend and I talked about Halloween, cars, then I went home. Big whoop.
I’m in college, I’ve never gone anywhere with friends except talking a little after class since 5th grade (except one or two isolated incidences).
This couldn’t happen at the same entertainment level without drinking alcohol? Essentially, what you are saying is that you can’t have meaningful human interaction without drink being involved.
Don’t be silly. I’m too lazy to multi-quote through this thread, but the point was drinking stories need not include hookers, failed assassination attempts, or waking up in Tijuana. The reason why most tales of drunkeness are so absurd is most likely because you’re talking to frat boys and/or because the story stands out so much among other drinking stories that someone thinks it might be worth telling. For someone to say “I don’t drink because all the drinking stories I hear sound dumb, and I want no part of that” seems to assume getting drunk means behaving in a way that is typical of these stories. This is untrue. For most adults, getting drunk almost always means shooting the breeze with friends in an entertaining but essentially uneventful manner.
I went to the bar with my friend some hours ago. I did not wake up in TJ… although I have not yet gone to bed. Who knows where I’ll be in the morning?
What started this was the comment that those of us who don’t drink must be ‘fun’ at parties. Obviously meaning that if you don’t drink you can’t have fun. So, my question is can you not have fun at parties without drinking? Or, are only parties where people drink fun? You, yourself, said you wouldn’t go to a party if there wasn’t drinking involved.
Just to help us understand, could you perhaps explain why you live your life this way?
There’s been a lot of crosstalk in this thread. I was responding specifically to the statement that went something like, “I’ve heard drinking stories, they sound frivolous at best, count me out.” Someone else responded with how ridiculous that was, and I concurred with something resembling, “I hope you realize most drunken socializing is about as tame as your grandmother’s tea party, perhaps with a bit more use of off-color language.”
Now regarding your last statement, no, I would not attend a dry party. In my (admittedly limited) experience, people who won’t drink at all tend to be mightily fucked up about the brain. This is not to say dry parties are exclusively attended by weirdo teetotallers, but I would guess more so than a normal party.
He should drink more.
Good people don’t deserve to be subjected to me and have the quality of their lives degraded. Besides, even if I wanted to I couldn’t make friends.
You’ve felt this way ever since 5th grade, to the point of not even going to restaurants or seeing movies in theatres (and all the rest of it)? Is there some particular underlying reason? (Agoraphobia, or something? No, I don’t suppose that really fits. But this kind of thought is so alien to me…) I don’t know you, but I find it hard to imagine you’re really such an intolerable presence as that you couldn’t be part of any social interaction.
Have you seen any kind of counselor to maybe help you around these feelings? (Asking for my own curiosity more than to give advice which I’m sure you’ve heard before).
Yup, multiple, and they all said they had no idea and gave up on me.
Hm, in this post you mention that “one hour I feel like this and the next I feel perfectly fine and remember that I just did stuff with people er… yesterday.” Which suggests that perhaps you do do things with other people sometimes? But I dunno. It looks like things are even more complicated with you than I thought, that thread clarifying some of it, and my whole line of inquiry has really been more about my own curiosity than any need to give you advice (since the advice is all obvious). So, whatever; consider the matter dropped, if you like.
ETA: I originally posted this before Jragon’s above comment.