Drinking
 

Lately I have been traveling all over the world on Cruise Ships. Lately the topic has been, " Is the Drunkenness that bad in The Villages" ?
Our response is, "'The sex is Worse". What's your opinion?

What happened to the pineapple?

I'm surprised to learn that the alcohol consumption in The Villages is now a heated topic of debate on a global scale. I guess no one wants to discuss the Middle East, or tariffs, or sports?

There are the bad apples who over consume, do something stupid, and it reflects to look as if we are all like that.

First hand knowledge?

I'm not sure "first hand" would give a reasonable basis for comparison.

As Sir Winston Churchill once so famously said "a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on."

A person who drank a lot before retirement is probably going to drink a lot following retirement too, but I doubt the level of "drunkenness" is any higher in TV than an any other place of like size. But going back to Sir Winston's comment...reading stories about excessive imbibing (or wanton sex) is going to draw one heck of a lot more readers and listeners than articles about local churches filling shoeboxes for children's Christmas every year, or "Honey do" programs where parish members make themselves available, free of charge, to do tasks that fellow Villagers can no longer do on their own, or neighborhood co-operative pet-sitters or house-watchers, or efforts in conjunction with the Humane Society, etc.; all and a whole lot more of which take place in The Villages.

But, people enjoy reading about sleaze, so...

Either way, I dribble. 😒

Some Apples
 

Or, it’s just some “apples” are different. Some can over drink and be fine, some have a personality you want to be far and removed from when they have even a couple. No one is the same.

I have yet to see any examples of extreme drunkenness nor encountered the myriad of swingers I was promised before coming here. I'm sure some exist but I'm also sure a lot of it is urban legend.

Or maybe I'm just hanging out at the wrong places.

It seems like the majority of unruly drunks highlighted in "the newspaper that shall not be named" are adult children living with their parents and/or residents of the areas just outside of TV.

It's a minor topic until you are injured in an accident caused by a drunk driver.

My SIL who first told us about the STD's was rather surprised when I told him it was not true

I was also asked about STD's in the Villages , I told them that we have many " Sun Tan Days" here in the Villages, as well as all of Florida.

Your SIL is a "him?" Now THAT'S a topic we can discuss...

El Diablo Joe

Son in law not Sister in law