The Drinking Life
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The Drinking Life
I was just thinking this morning about how I was exposed to alcohol in utero and consistently thereafter. My mom drank (not heavy) through all of her pregnancies. It was the 40s and 50s so I don't think they understood the danger then.
Alcohol was present in our home all the time. And when people came over, they drank. My first drink was behind the jr. high school at age 13. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill. We drank under the bleachers at football games in high school and then in college (legal age was 18 then). Binge drinking at frat parties, etc.
Stopped when I was in my 20s... and drank very rarely until I was 44. Then all hell broke lose. But the time from college until 44 drinking was always part of the social scene. No matter what type of event, booze was present. Dinners, parties, BBQs, golf games, etc.
I have lived a drinking life, even if I didn't always drink. It is endemic to our society.
Alcohol was present in our home all the time. And when people came over, they drank. My first drink was behind the jr. high school at age 13. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill. We drank under the bleachers at football games in high school and then in college (legal age was 18 then). Binge drinking at frat parties, etc.
Stopped when I was in my 20s... and drank very rarely until I was 44. Then all hell broke lose. But the time from college until 44 drinking was always part of the social scene. No matter what type of event, booze was present. Dinners, parties, BBQs, golf games, etc.
I have lived a drinking life, even if I didn't always drink. It is endemic to our society.
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Originally Posted by ArtFriend 
My first drink was behind the jr. high school at age 13. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.
Boone's Farm was taken off the market for a couple of years, with rumors swirling around that it contained antifreeze and formaldehyde. You wouldn't need to convince me.
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Originally Posted by ArtFriend
They said it is pure several times in that commercial, so I guess it must be! (cough)
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Right! I also started smoking at age 13. I was a little delinquent 
Yeah, doctors on TV smoking and telling you that because the tobacco is "toasted" that it is good for you. WTF? Or people running down the beach in slow motion with a cig in their mouth.
Yeah, doctors on TV smoking and telling you that because the tobacco is "toasted" that it is good for you. WTF? Or people running down the beach in slow motion with a cig in their mouth.
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Originally Posted by ArtFriend
I have lived a drinking life, even if I didn't always drink. It is endemic to our society.
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Yes, the 60's and 70's were like a different world of experiences with alcohol, prescription drugs, recreational drugs, and of course, tobacco. Love, sex, rock and roll, and getting high was a "society approved normality."
Only the "hard" drugs were still taboo, but even so, like heroes from the abyss, such hardliners as rock stars were still worshipped and idolized.
I quit 1981. Thank God. The 80's were a living hell of dysfunction on almost every level, lol. Garbage-in-garbage-out idealism finally caught up to society in the 80's and into the 90's.
Remember the "Official War on Drugs Policy" politics began by Nixon in the early 70's? And still today, where has all the effort gone? Ironically, we are now seeing things swing into how to capitalize on cannabis production, sales, and distribution.
Wow. Irony in spades.
Only the "hard" drugs were still taboo, but even so, like heroes from the abyss, such hardliners as rock stars were still worshipped and idolized.
I quit 1981. Thank God. The 80's were a living hell of dysfunction on almost every level, lol. Garbage-in-garbage-out idealism finally caught up to society in the 80's and into the 90's.
Remember the "Official War on Drugs Policy" politics began by Nixon in the early 70's? And still today, where has all the effort gone? Ironically, we are now seeing things swing into how to capitalize on cannabis production, sales, and distribution.
Wow. Irony in spades.
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We saw an alien craft zig-zagging across the night sky erratically whilst imbibing boones farm and columbian gold on our back patio in '75. 5 of us partying and everyone saw it. I was about 14.
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Surprised I don't know Boone's. When I came of age in the '80 the teen starter booze of choice was wine coolers. Another sickly sweet concoction to mask the flavor of alcohol. And then puke in technicolor!
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I remember boones farm country quencher and strawberry hill.. we also drank that nasty MD 20/20 when we were young.. So glad you stopped at 20, I kept going like a rock star till I was 45.. I can totally relate, thanks for the share!
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Originally Posted by Dave42001
I remember boones farm country quencher and strawberry hill.. we also drank that nasty MD 20/20 when we were young.. So glad you stopped at 20, I kept going like a rock star till I was 45.. I can totally relate, thanks for the share!
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