Court of Antiochus

Fortunately, I don't drink though my fellow minors do, nor shall I consume alcohol.

Alcohol tastes bad.

Alchohol tastes good, but I have no access to it. Besides, I'm exceedingly uncomfortable at parties, terrified actually that someone is going to get drunk and do something stupid, so I wouldn't drink, I'd be sitting there waiting for an OK time to leave.

 

I spent the night at home. lol

Personally, I don't like consuming poison, and I think it tastes bad, so you probably won't be seeing me drink a lot of it...

My friend, we are what they call teetotallers.

I was a bit like you - I never really liked to drink in excess. But you will change your views when you hit 18/21 (depending on where you are).

Unfortunately my views on alcohol will put me in a small social crisis about that age you described above, WW, because I live in the heart of New Deutchland-Ten-Bars-on-every-street-College-parties-are-known-for-insane-amounts-of-beer.

 

My state was the last one to raise the legal age, and only because the Federal Dept of Transportation was threatening to cut highway funding.

My German grandmother gave me my first shot of schnapps when I was 11, and my first Guiness was about the same time. College imbued me with a revolting aversion to hard liquor, though by now it's mostly subsided. Now, I stick to small, savored quantities of beer and sometimes wine.

If you don't drink to excess, that means that you are rich. I am very poor!