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Posted: 2/19/2019 11:12:19 PM EDT

[#1]

Duh.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:12:27 PM EDT

[#2]

We had homeless people living near us in the woods. As long as you gave them $5 we had all the booze we could afford.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:12:33 PM EDT

[#3]

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12. Stole my dad's whiskey.
At 13 I did a beer run. 24 pack too.

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Natty Lite?

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:13:06 PM EDT

[#4]

SoCo & Pepsi. Just looking at the bottle makes me

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Posted: 2/19/2019 11:14:26 PM EDT

[#5]

No. I never drank before I was married.

Of course, I never needed to before then.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:15:17 PM EDT

[#6]

I remember chugging then puking up a quart of Budweiser the summer after the sixth grade.

All down hill from there.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:15:46 PM EDT

[#7]

I played my first game of quarters at 8 and smoked my first joint at 9.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:19:21 PM EDT

[#8]

I would go to Jewel and help old ladies load their groceries, Then ask them to go back and buy beer and they would. I was 15ish.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:21:08 PM EDT

[#9]

I did, my wife did, my daughter did. If anything, my daughter was the most responsible of the three of us with alcohol between 18-20.

I miss the summers when my girl and her college friends would drink and fix sides as I grilled in the backyard.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:22:05 PM EDT

[#10]

I grew up in a place that looked like this. Goddamn right I did.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:22:42 PM EDT

[#11]

Nope, my parent's didn't (and still don't) drink, there was none around to be had. Didn't really run with that kind of crowd back then anyway. We were the dorky kids.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:23:51 PM EDT

[#12]

I was helping run a still when I was 15.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:27:38 PM EDT

[#13]

At 14, after rabbit hunting, Dad and I stopped at a tiny extremely rural store that looked like it was still in the 20’s.

6 pack of Blatz and a bag of Beernuts, and we drank the beers while driving back home to the city.

Dad taught me a lot, and not to drink Blatz again.

Later that year, I got a fake picture ID, amd having a full beard at 14, began a wonderful life of enjoying adult beverages.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:29:30 PM EDT

[#14]

Had my first beer at 15. My wife however did not drink before 21.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:30:17 PM EDT

[#15]

Family owned a bar.

Many family gatherings were in fact in the bar.

One Easter the egg hunt was in the bar due to shitty weather. (The golden egg was found on the band stand around the drum kit.)

So, considering my brother and my 6 other cousins were mischeivious little shits, you are damn right alcohol some how made it into our grubby little hands.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:34:07 PM EDT

[#16]

No, had my first drink at 24.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:35:25 PM EDT

[#17]

the day before

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:37:23 PM EDT

[#18]

I think I was about 13 the first time I got drunk.

I barfed.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:38:14 PM EDT

[#19]

Yep, got shitfaced the first time at 13.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:38:59 PM EDT

[#20]

I grew up mostly in South Dakota, of course I did.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:39:23 PM EDT

[#21]

Yeah, the usual way...swiped some beer from the fridge, shoplifted a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20, stole a half-full bottle of Thunderbird from a passed-out drunk...all before I was 12.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:40:01 PM EDT

[#22]

Legal drinking age was 18 when I grew up. At 15 I was dating an 18 yo and she set me up with a set of fake ID from one of her friends. So yes, I was hanging in bars at 15 but honestly it wasn't a big deal and pretty common. You were GTG as long as you don't make an ass of yourself.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:41:59 PM EDT

[#23]

Yep, had wine with special dinners sometimes and sweet sparkling stuff on holidays.

High school was beers.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:44:14 PM EDT

[#24]

I did lots of things before I was of legal age. We did things in high school that most people wait till college to to.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:46:05 PM EDT

[#25]

Yes. With my parents during the holiday season, then in high school with friends, most of whom died in a car crash while drinking when I was in boot camp.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:46:29 PM EDT

[#26]

I'm from Wisconsin sooooooo...

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:47:22 PM EDT

[#27]

Y'all are criminals. Don't deserve to own a firearm.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:50:54 PM EDT

[#28]

Jim Beam, budweiser at 19, I didn’t just drink it, I gulped it. Continued with somewhat regular binge drinking until 21 or so, then drank socially until 36. At 36, I sold all homebrewing equipment, threw out the remainder of my ample stash, and quit cold turkey after realizing there was no future in it. Was on call for work, which made drinking a liability anyway, and I found a church that demanded more of my time and energy. Today, no alcohol in 9 years or so. I’ve never missed it. My two daughters and a host of kids who depend on me to be a mentor and a role model would be jeopardized if I drank. Plus, as a Christian, I can’t justify it.
Y’all do what you do, but I’ll tell you, my life improved 100% when I gave it up.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:58:21 PM EDT

[#29]

Folks have super 8 of me getting trashed off of sips of friends drinks at a party at about 6.

I remember getting drunk Sunday mornings at my cousin's house while his folks were at church.

Stole from Dad's stash through junior high.

I drink too much now, functional alcoholic.

Having a couple of cocktails tonight, ignoring divorce alarms.

Posted: 2/19/2019 11:58:31 PM EDT

[#30]

Sort of.

Drinking age in my home state was 18. Drinking age where I went to college was 21.

Since I had to pay out-of-state tuition to go there, I figured they had no right telling me to follow their rules.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:02:02 AM EDT

[#31]

Anyone who votes no isn't just a liar, they're a damned liar

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:04:14 AM EDT

[#32]

Lol of course!

Heck my freshman year when I was coming back from spring break my mom bought me a 6-pack to share with one of my friends in the dorm.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:04:16 AM EDT

[#33]

Not regularly, but if the old man was already drunk and wanted a ride to the store, he'd ask me to take him in exchange for a 12 pack.

I was 20 when I was sent overseas. The legal drinking age was 20 so I saved a few months of having to wait. Made for a boring 21st birthday.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:24:06 AM EDT

[#34]

Yes started at 15, because when I was traveling with family to Belize the water would kill you so beer it was for me.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:26:04 AM EDT

[#35]

16 birthday. Sat in the weeds for hours out of fear of being caught and arrested

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:43:34 AM EDT

[#36]

I thought I was legal at 18. Didn't learn otherwise until I took a polygraph for a police-related city job.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:45:24 AM EDT

[#37]

No. I was married before 21, but didn't drink until I was old enough to legally do so. I wasn't interested in drinking and had more interest in my girlfriend (later wife), and my newly started company, than getting hammered.

My bride was still under age when I could finally legally buy alcohol. We would have a few drinks at home alone. Never partied or did anything too crazy other than the normal "young and in love" stuff while a little tipsy.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:16:52 AM EDT

[#38]

I received a citation (not arrested) for MIP six weeks before turning 21. I was holding a half-empty beer when TABC rolled up on us in the parking lot of Billy Bob's (yes, I was drinking it). Two years later I'm interviewing for cop jobs and am getting my ass chewed by a Captain in a preliminary interview about it.

Captain (seeming legitimately angry): "Just how in the hell are we supposed to hire someone who has no respect for the law whatsoever."

Me: "Well, sir, it's not something that I necessarily take pride in; however, why don't you walk the halls taking a poll and fire every cop that had a beer when they were underage. Let's see how much of a Police Department you have left when you're done."

Captain: "We're done. Get out of my office."

I didn't get hired by that agency. They chose someone else. Meanwhile, my agency had passed on the guy that they hired instead. They fired that guy less than 2 years into his career while I've been on the job for over 21 years. I went to the academy with him and he was legitimately nice guy; however, you could tell that he was a proper church boy that had no business in law enforcement.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:24:04 AM EDT

[#39]

Not a lot. Legal age then was 18.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:25:01 AM EDT

[#40]

Not a lot, but yes.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:28:22 AM EDT

[#41]

Didn't drink, smoke, pot, nothing back then and still don't now.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:33:05 AM EDT

[#42]

16

Bars with bands

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:37:40 AM EDT

[#43]

i had an extensive bar under my bed.

We would get bums to buy us 40s, but by the time i was 15, i had a fake id and we knew 4 or 5 places that would take fake id.

Good times lol

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:39:13 AM EDT

[#44]

Started at 11

dont drink much anymore

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:40:08 AM EDT

[#45]

I was in the Army so most of the drinking I've done in my life was 18-20.

By the time I turned 21 I had been in trouble enough times I was seldom drinking any more.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:40:25 AM EDT

[#46]

I like beerthe

I liked it in HS, in college and enjoy it still today.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:40:59 AM EDT

[#47]

Yeah. Hate it. I'll drink a beer here and there but I dont understand the allure many have with drinking.

Always wondered if I have an allergic reaction of some kind. Skin gets hit and I get uncomfortable after 2 beers. Takes a lot to get dru k and always feel like shit afterwards. Cost to benefit ratio is terrible for me and alcohol.