What was your first taste of ALCOHOL?

[ghouck]

  I am extremely tempted by the world of boozing though

Gooble Gobble, Gooble Gobble, one of us, one of us!

[ghouck]

RC -- my friend -- you break all of our hearts with posts like this.  Particularly the part about self-loathing.  I can only imagine how you suffer from the addiction itself; beating yourself up on top of it is just too much to bear. 

I won't pretend to have advice for you on how to cope with this, but if you could see yourself as we see you, you wouldn't be filled with self-hatred.  You have no illusions, and your brutal honesty, passion for movies, and good heart shines through in all of your posts.  My heart goes out to you, as I'm sure everyone's does.  Take it easy on yourself.   

+1 RC, the Rev has it right. . .

[RCMerchant]

Thank you all for the good words. I'm sober tonite! On a Friday yet! 
My kids are at their Mama's this weekend-instead of boozing it up-I'm frying a steak with onions and some taters. Gonna kick back and watch an old classic Universal horror film.SON OF FRANKENSTEIN,I think.   

[Raffine]

Thank you all for the good words. I'm sober tonite! On a Friday yet! 
My kids are at their Mama's this weekend-instead of boozing it up-I'm frying a steak with onions and some taters. Gonna kick back and watch an old classic Universal horror film.SON OF FRANKENSTEIN,I think.   

A good steak and a GREAT Bela performance.

Sounds like a terrific night!

[Rev. Powell]

Thank you all for the good words. I'm sober tonite! On a Friday yet! 
My kids are at their Mama's this weekend-instead of boozing it up-I'm frying a steak with onions and some taters. Gonna kick back and watch an old classic Universal horror film.SON OF FRANKENSTEIN,I think.   

HALLELUJAH!  I have cured him!

[Paquita]

Aw don't worry, I'm not going to start drinking!  Every time I have a little my mouth feels numb and it freaks me out too much to have any more. 

However, I have always wanted to get one of those giant nebuchadnezzar sized wine bottles and carry it out at a party and offer wine to people and awkwardly try to pour it into tiny glasses.

RC -  - don't be sad.

[Mofo Rising]

I believe I was 16 when I got drunk on some peppermint schnapps, and I had a lot of fun. The next day, I drank a big glass of Jim Beam and ended up puking drunk all over my friends house.

Since then I have been every level of drunk at one time or another, as well as skirting the edge of what RCMerchant is talking about. I've had fun nights, and other nights where I've woken up the next day to have to apologize for coating a friend's cars in vomit.

Alcohol, in and of itself, is nothing to be frightened of, but like any other vice it can sneak up on you. I fully understand where RC is coming from. Hard to explain unless you've been there yourself.

My solution is to keep myself so busy I don't have the option to drink, and I keep myself very busy. I very much enjoy being drunk, but I can very rarely fit it in my schedule. Not so glamorous, but there you go.

[Cthulhu]

Thank you all for the good words. I'm sober tonite! On a Friday yet! 
My kids are at their Mama's this weekend-instead of boozing it up-I'm frying a steak with onions and some taters. Gonna kick back and watch an old classic Universal horror film.SON OF FRANKENSTEIN,I think.   

Great to hear that.

[retrorussell]

My early teens, my dad had cans of PBR here and there on the pantry shelves.  They ended up mysteriously disappearing.     Didn't get wasted on alcohol till my twenties.  Don't really drink much at all anymore.

[Psycho Circus]

Thank you all for the good words. I'm sober tonite! On a Friday yet! 
My kids are at their Mama's this weekend-instead of boozing it up-I'm frying a steak with onions and some taters. Gonna kick back and watch an old classic Universal horror film.SON OF FRANKENSTEIN,I think.   

Excellent! Try and carry that on, if you can do it one night, you can do two nights. 

[ghouck]

My dad would give me sips of beer I think starting when I was 4.  It tasted awful but I felt like a badass getting sips of beer.  I've never had more than a couple sips since and I've never been drunk.  I am extremely tempted by the world of boozing though - so many colors, so many flavors! So many fun shaped containers!!  It's like there's a crazy carnival of liqour out there begging me to come and play!!!!!

For starters, try some MD 20/20, it's usually on the bottom shelf of the cheap wine section.

Paquita, you're smart enough to recognize this on your own, but just in case you have a brain fart... do NOT follow ghouck's advice, it's a trap.  (You should never follow the advice of anyone who can't spell "ghoul" correctly). 

I was just trying to make sure she'd never do it a second time.