Alcohol05:47 Aug 28 2008
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You know, I kind of sort of have a "problem" with people who drink mass amounts of booze.
I don't mind if you want to have some wine with dinner, or one or two drinks after a rough week, but I have known people who absolutely CANNOT be social and have a good time UNLESS they are consuming alcoholic beverages and lots of them. I do not understand this NEED they have to induce a drunken stupor. I have heard people make proclaimations like "I'm going to drink 'til I puke!!" to a round of applause, and later that night that's exactly what they do. Now, call me crazy, but I personally do not like vomitting my guts out. Why would anyone WANT to knowingly cause this?
Another thing I don't like about it is that when someone has had too many drinks, it becomes difficult for me to predict their behaviour and responses and most people tend to become touchy-feely. I have a hard enough time figuring people out under "normal" circumstances, so add an excess of alcohol to them and I am never sure what they're going to do. Say, on a regular ocassion a friend of mine were to pat my shoulder and say "how's it going?", fine, and no problem. However this same person with alcohol ingested going to perform this same act will now lean on my shoulder rather than pat and will talk to me an inch away from my face, booze breath issuing forth, and I feel trapped there, unsure of how much more weird, uncomfortable physical contact I'm going to receive.
People tell me all the time that I should lighten up, and by "lighten up" they really mean "get as drunk as everyone else" and I won't have these hang ups any more. Well, I don't really feel inclined to get drunk just because everyone else is doing it, thanks.
I went to a party many years ago and there was a girl there who was all tipsy and unable to stay steady on her feet who declared "I am drinking SOOOO much! Why am I drinking so much??" To which I replied "Well, I've got a litre of Diet Coke here if you'd rather?" And this girl looked at me like I was from Mars. As though drinking anything without alcohol in it were a foreign concept. That girl? Yeah at that point in time I knew she had already gotten her stomoach pumped at LEAST twice for drinking too much (her parents knew my parents is how I knew this). Was I the first person to suggest a non-alcoholic beverage?
But yeah, go to a party and toss back a few, I don't mind. It's when you OVERDO IT that it becomes a problem for me, and I'm kind of surprised that it isn't a bigger problem for anyone else, or do you prefer your friends with ravaged livers and you actually enjoy holding back their hair while they yak. Oh yeah, I'M definitely the one with the problem here.
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deathnitegrl
07:59 Aug 28 2008
I completely agree with you, I can't stand people who can't have fun without alcohol.
When I tell everyone I hate it and I hardly ever get drunk they give me a weird look.
And the people getting drunk to hit on me, those are the worse, or girls being wasted on the ground and get raped pfffttt....