Alcohol

marisco_2

I spent some of the weekend up in London with friends and we went along to watch the boat race. We were by the river at a local pub and on the whole the atmosphere was really good. There was a small number of people though who were getting very pickled. From what my friends and I could see some had kids with them. Maybe I am not with the times but common sense tells me that kids, water and alcohol dont mix.

Dont get me wrong I am not tee-total. If I go out with friends then I will have a social drink with them if I am not the designated driver. I have done the partying to all hours of the night, though those days are way behind me now. I just dont see the fun of getting completely out of it and then losing a few hours of your life whilst you recover the next day any more. I do have a phobia of throwing up though so maybe that helps.

What are your views folks?

gingin_2

I think there is a difference between getting merry with friends and secretive drinking at home and becoming drunk.

I grew up with a very close family ( Mum is an identical twin) and we would regularly go on holiday as a group with their children of a same age and seeing our parents get steaming drunk at restaurants was not unusual. We laughed about it then and still do now - it was all jovial.

ilikewatch

I frequently enjoy a night on the booze, but always feel uncomfortable when people bring their children to places or events like pubs, barbecues and wedding receptions where it is likely that people will want to drink.

SailorSam

There's always drink in the house but i drink so little it's hardly worth talking about. Even when it's free i have soft drinks. I'd go out drinking with mates when i was younger but probably been drunk less than half-a-dozen times in my life and i'm 59 now. I think maybe 'cos i was always 'the driver' i just never got use to drinking as a habit.

pukkamum

I am not a tee totaller but I too find alchohol one of the worse drugs out there. I recently went to a funeral of a friend who had spent his life as a drug addict heroin crack etc. All his friends were talking about how awful drugs were whilst firing alchohol down their necks, one of them was found slumped against a wall outside, yet this is acceptable. I myself like to smoke weed I do not abuse it in any way but after having a joint I am relaxed happy and more than capable of functioning yet this is frowned upon. When I see pictures of town centres filled with vomiting fighting collapsed young people I despair at a culture that encourages this kind of behaviour yet says that smoking a joint is a heinous crime. Its time alchohol was recognised for the horrific life destroying drug that it is.

victory

I learnt an age ago that alcohol does not suit me, it makes me feel ill which is not pleasant, makes the room spin, the next day is a non functioning day, no point to that so now I just have the odd glass of wine here and there which I appreciate and enjoy but know that it is not going to upset the day after and make me feel or be sick.

The people with kids they probably had a designated watcher, in the old days we used to do that if we went out in the day, there was always one or two people that did not drink at all and were in charge of the kids while the rest drank and had a good time.

Drinking to excess has never been a pleasure, it costs too much as well and I resent the money being spent that way when it could be much better spent on things you can at least remember:rotfl:

FatVonD

I would never be drunk in charge of a child, I don't drink even if my son is out in case I'm called on to collect him.

snozberry

I'm often in the minority when I reveal that I have never seen my parents drunk. Mum and dad would have the odd glass of wine and watered down wine or very weak shandy was made available to my sister and I from a young age but I have never seen them pie eyed.

marisco_2

victory wrote: »

The people with kids they probably had a designated watcher, in the old days we used to do that if we went out in the day, there was always one or two people that did not drink at all and were in charge of the kids while the rest drank and had a good time.

My parents and their friends did this too when we were growing up. It hit home to my dad, just how much time we spent in and out of pubs at weekends, when he came to one of the parents evenings at school. My teacher showed him my 'Monday morning' book where I wrote about all the lovely things I had done with my family over the weekends. One entry had we went to the park Saturday morning , then we went to xxx pub for lunch, then daddy took me swimming, then we went to xxx pub to see his friends. On Sunday we went Ice skating then we met up with some friends of mummys and daddys at xxx pub. To say he felt a bit was an understatement.

At one point one of my crowd had to call out to this group 'hey mate your kid is going in for a swim'. That sobered them up a bit :cool:

Pollycat

marisco wrote: »

I spent some of the weekend up in London with friends and we went along to watch the boat race. We were by the river at a local pub and on the whole the atmosphere was really good. There was a small number of people though who were getting very pickled. From what my friends and I could see some had kids with them. Maybe I am not with the times but common sense tells me that kids, water and alcohol dont mix.

I'm all for having a drink, especially out with friends & OH but getting rat-a**ed with kids is a definite 'no-no'.

In our local Wetherspoons we see some adults with kids who are drunk while the kids run riot.
There was one particular Mother who brought her young daughter and baby in and drank lager like it was going out of fashion whilst the baby screamed the place down when people were trying to have a quiet dinner.

System

The older i got the worse the hangovers got and the less alcohol was needed to render me legless.

I'm a cheap date though.:D