I hear you on the distaste for alcohol-related stories, and I had to remove myself from a conversation at work today. I have a coworker who finds inappropriate things funny (he laughs at EVERYTHING, strange man, long story), and today he tried to draw me into a conversation by yelling across the room to me, "Hey, did you hear that, hahaha, we have a drunk driver here, hahahahaha!" What the frack?! I just muttered something like "yeah, that's not funny" from across the room and went back to my work. I also have another coworker who is in his 50's and he must think it makes him cool with the younger crowd in the office to put extra emphasis on his drinking when he tells stories of dinners out, bowling night, etc. I usually just "mmmhmm" and go about my work when he goes on like that.
I just don't want to be around it or hear about it at this point. My husband is fresh out of rehab and stories about drinking just make me sick to my stomach. Maybe in the future, I'll get better about it, but at least for now, I just don't want to hear it. Too raw, too many bad memories.