Does any one besides me abstain from drinking alchohol, for any reason? I’m not tempted to start, but I’m looking for others 'cause I’ve been getting a lot of flak lately.
My reason is simply because I don’t like the idea of it, and I loathe being around drunk people. For some reason, it creeps me out.
I don’t drink.
[sup]Mainly 'cuz I can’t get any liquor.[/sup]
If it’s there, I’ll drink it, but I don’t go out looking for it. And actually, I don’t particularly care for the taste of it. If there’s a choice between, say, whiskey and Coca-Cola, I’ll go for the pop almost every time.
I blame it all on my current boyfriend. Well, and my own common sense a little. I refuse to drink while I’m in the US, I don’t trust myself and the guys I’m around enough to get buzzed with them and drinking by yourself serves no purpose at all, I’d rather drink coke. I would only drink when I went to Mexico and my cousins would take me out clubbing. Bad stuff ensued, so when I told my current boyfriend he made me promise not to drink. That’s why I don’t drink anymore.
Kitty
I don’t drink. I’ve never had more than a few sips of alcohol in my life. This causes me to get a lot of flack at college… drinking is quite big at Dartmouth. I just ignore it. Living in the sub free dorms helps alot, because I can easily avoid places where there’s a lot of alcohol.
Although… it’s worth mentioning that while I’m teased about it, I’ve yet to have people try to pressure me into drinking.
Yeah, drinking is big at U of I too. I’m not really getting pressured, it’s just that there’s not much else to do, and I can’t find anyone to do it with me. My dad thinks that because I’m not going to parties, I’m not “adjusting” to college. I belonged to a substance free club in high school, and one of my old friends from there is here, but I can’t do anything with him because he mostly just goes to gay/lesbian clubs, and while I have no problem with that, I’m not gay or a lesbian and I have a wonderful fiance, so I don’t need to look for guys either. I don’t like parties, even if I don’t drink, 'cause I hate crowds like that. I guess I’m just lonely and bored, and I’ve been kinda depressed lately. No reason why, I just get a little depressed for no reason sometimes. I’m just rambling, sorry.
Yeah, anyway, on with the thread…
I am definitely not a drinker. Whenever I go to parties, I’m always the “sober one,” who just kind of sits there and watches everybody else get blasted. Fun. But, I’m still in HS, and while I don’t plan to drink in College, I understand that the comparative pressures to drink aren’t exactly the same.
Still, cast my vote in the “non-drinker” category. It’s worth it in the end, I believe.
I just realized, is “belonged” even a word? replace with “was a member of.”
Belonged… sheesh.
I don’t drink much, and never buy anything to bring back to the apartment.
But if someone else wants beer with pizza or wine with pasta, I’ll split a pitcher or a carafe. About half the time.
My neighbors are noisy drunks, though. Real alchoholics that sing drunkenly at 4am on the porch. So I know it’s a drag, but it’s not my problem. All my neighbors have different problems, none of them mine.
Damnit! belonged IS a word! Stupid mid-terms, can’t even think! Arrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!
I quit drinking about two years ago. For lots of reasons I won’t bother explaining. Fortunately, my health isn’t one of them. Never got arrested either. Did plenty of stupid things though.
But the big reason I left my drinking life behind, I’ve got so much more to lose now than when I used to be a regular drinker.
Wife, kids, career, and the rest of my beautiful life.
To provide some context; I was trashed once or twice each weekend for about 12 years.
My teenages son, who has alcoholics on both sides of his family, tells people “I don’t drink, it interferes with my sexual preformance.” I just love the way his mind works!
I don’t drink, either; I itch if I do. In the last two months or so, though, I’ve had a couple of drinks that were really good. They made me feel like crap the day after, but damn, feeling like crap was never more worth it.
I don’t drink. I had “friends” in high school make it their goal to try and corrupt me. (Their words) This of course dealt with more than just alchohol… I am proud to say that they failed. It can be annoying to be around people who bother you all the time, though. It makes it hard to just hang out and relax with people. Ah well, that time’s over. I’ve managed to find a decidedly different crowd in college, though practically my entire hall did regularly get drunk last year.
ahh…I drink alchohol…but I think you confuse drinking alchohol with getting falling down, hammered, drunk. That is fun once…until the next morning when your praying to what ever diety you believe in to make it stop. I have no problems having 4 or 5 beers every once in a while when at a social gathering, or drinking a beer with dinner, but I usually limit myself as to how much and how often I drink. I also enjoy going to parties and watching people who are drunk as it just gives you so much faith in humanity…The future fine upstanding members of America are running around trying to find someone to hold them up for Keg Stands!
I used to be quite a heavy drinker, but haven’t had a drop in a number of years. I used to think drunk people were funny. Since I’ve quit, I find them annoying as hell.
I come from long lines of drop dead drunks on both sides. I gave up wine when my stomach got really bad; my younger sister gave up drinking when she was driving drunk, and in a car accident which left one arm paralyzed; and my brother gave up drinking when he ended up in the hospital with kidney and liver failure.
Oddly, I have an older sister who can drink moderately. I think she was switched at birth.
I’m another non-drinker. For one thing, I can’t stand the way any alcohol tastes, much less smells. Even wine makes me gag.
For another, I was just never interested in ‘getting a buzz’ and certainly have no desire to find out what it’s like to get drunk. Many of my family members were raging alcoholics (I say ‘were’ because most of them are now dead), and I have no desire to follow in their footsteps. Besides, alcohol is a depressant, and I get plenty depressed all on my own, thankyouverymuch.
I’ll have the occassional glass of wine, and my cousins always laugh at me, since they’re serious drinkers. I mean, come on! I’m on medication, and besides, our aunt died of alcoholism.
Besides-I drank about two or three glasses of champagne the other night at my folks anniversary party. I was so tired I was swaying on my feet. Booze makes me sleepy. My mom’s the same way-a glass of wine and I’m out like a light!
Just so you don’t feel alone, I don’t drink either. Never have. Never touched it. I gag on Scope. I can’t see drinking beer “for the taste” when it smells like crap.
I’ve never felt pressured by people who see “getting drunk” as the big thing to do on weekends. Just shows how much of a life they have; None.
Besides, messing with drunks is more fun when you’re sober. 