QOTW How old were you......?

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
QOTW How old were you......?
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Mon, 07-31-2006 - 8:47am

How old were you the first time you got drunk?


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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-17-2001
Mon, 07-31-2006 - 9:37am

HI wifemomteacher,

Seventeen. New Years eve 1950. High School senior. On slo gin at friends house. Not falling down drunk, just a pleasant buzz. Remember we went to see mid-night movie, "Duel in the Sun," with Gregory Peck and Jane Russell. That was a very controversial movie back then with Jane in low cut blouses. Oh, how times have changed. Being an inebriated wise guy adolescent I lit up a cigarette in the theater. Nothing happened. Thanks for memories. A year later I was in basic training in the USAF.

Pray for peace,
Stay safe,
Service in recovery

Castaway


A Friend in Recovery


Paul

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Mon, 07-31-2006 - 11:59am
I was 18, legal to drink for about a week. It was my senior ball, the date my friends had gotten for me ignored me all night. We were at the party by the beach. I got stone drunk...blacked out....my date ended up with a broken nose, and to this day, I don't know if I, or my friend Dennis gave it to him.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-07-2003
Mon, 07-31-2006 - 12:43pm
Sad to say, about 13.
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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 07-31-2006 - 10:17pm
14
Why do I continue to feel you are writing a term paper? LOL
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-02-2004
Mon, 07-31-2006 - 11:13pm
I was 12. It was my cousins wedding. The hang over was horrendous. I still hate champange.

Chaoslover

Sometimes you fake it, till you can make it.

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Mon, 07-31-2006 - 11:20pm
Bless you Carol, my friend, I am far, far past the term paper age. Actually, I grade them.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 08-01-2006 - 3:59am
Hmm..No A I supose
but a B for location?
LOL
Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Tue, 08-01-2006 - 6:26am

LOL

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-13-2006
Tue, 08-01-2006 - 9:18am

I am not sure I know I was very young.
We never had a gathering without booze on the table.
It was a big deal for me to sip on my father’s beer.

My grandfather made his own wine so I had to have some of that..

I was told I got drunk on wine when I was very young.
Not sure what adult helped me.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2003
Tue, 08-01-2006 - 11:42am
Hmmmm...I was a late bloomer.

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