[graciegirl]

We are kinda rule oriented. Both of us firstborns and a bit anal.

When we moved the contents of our bar down here, and we have quite a collection of stuff 'cause we have folks over a lot.


We gave away any opened bottles.


We drove the closed bottles down in our car.

I don't know if we have changed or our friends have changed but the stuff we have isn't used much anymore in our social get togethers. We have the tray with the Brandy and Benedictine and the Drambuie and all of the stuff that used to be served with coffee after dinner but nobody drinks it much anymore.

We have some nice bottles of Scotch etc but I don't drink it or any alcohol anymore because of the medication I am on. (I never did it very well) Sweetie has a Martini in the evening. Helene drinks water...no lemon please.

When we offer drinks, beer or wine is usually what is chosen when guests come over and they are outrageously fun people and we laugh until we hurt but they don't drink as much as our friends did twenty years ago. AND most of our friends don't drink. They did but now they don't is what they tell us. I don't think any have stopped for religious reasons.

We serve wine with dinner to our friends but it is surprising to me how many don't drink.

Tell us what you drink and when you drink and if your habits have changed over time. AND whether you choose your friends with a mind to their drinking habits. (Some people think that non drinkers aren't much fun etc)
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Just for the sake of talking about booze and us grown ups here in TV.

It is kinda early in the morning to start a thread like this, isn't it?

[Tom Hannon]

With the picture of me holding two pina-coladas taken at Cody's and of me being Irish, most people assume I am a heavey drinker. I am not. Don't touch alcohol except on rare occassions. Give me a coke and I'm happy.

[l2ridehd]

OMG, it's to early to answer.

Seriously. Used to drink more hard liquor then we do now. Mostly drink wine, an occasional beer or hard drink. Fewer friends drink as well. Same as you Gracie, must be part of the times, DUI environment and health issues and exercise and being more health conscious. Like you we still have the scotch and vodka and 20 other bottles, but replacements will be few. So drinking patterns have changed for most of us.

Of course now I have to figure out how to move the 1000 bottles of wine in our wine cellar. Didn't have that problem when we were younger.

[Bonny]

I plead the fifth !!!

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by Bonny

I plead the fifth !!!

I'll drink to that!!

Sandy will have a glass of wine on occasion, usually when we're out with friends. Me? I don't drink anymore. Never had a problem with drinking - just decided to quit a number of years ago. Only drank a few beers now back then so giving it up wasn't a tough thing to do.

Most of our friends don't drink much at all. Years back, we used to be friends with a couple whose lives seemed to revolve around alcohol more and more as time went on. As a result, our social agenda with them "stopped meshing"........

Bill

[DaleMN]

Wife and I have been beer drinkers forever. I think we both drink less than in our younger years and considerably less when we are out and have to drive home.
I miss Yuenling cuz they don't have it in MN and I'm anxious to have my first in a month or so.

[angiefox10]

I will enjoy a wine once in awhile with dinner. Ive drank too much twice in my life and I didn't like the way it felt. Now the issue is the calories. My metabolism has slowed down. I would rather put my calories to food then drink. Coffee please with sweet n low!

But of course I will take sugar if there is no sweet n low. *wink*

[The Villager II]

I can't imagine life without beer.

My better half is a margarita and Cosmo drinker.

[BigMike]

GG, Well I guess I am the odd man out!! The wife and I are one bottle of wine a dayer's Since I am in the business, that's my story and I'm sticking to it, We always enjoy wine with meals and friends. We have friends that do not drink and that's not a problem as long as they do not tell me to stop!! If you ever need help getting rid of the Scotch over there call me as well. Will raise a glass in your honor tonight GG.

[Uptown Girl]

Hubby doesn't drink at all. I may have a glass of red (if we're out) with pasta or steak, but that's about it. Maybe a Mexican beer with Mexican food.

I keep a few bottles of wine handy for company (and deglazing a pan)
and have used different liqueurs for special holiday cooking:
Rum when roasting pineapple
Galliano in a picnic fried chicken recipe
Vodka in pasta sauce
Baileys over ice cream (or in coffee up North when it's cold outside)
(and a few other recipes that escape me now)

But I find that's about it. More and more I enjoy a good coffee instead.

[swimdawg]

I'll have a wine glass filled with ice.......and pour wine on top.

Truth is.......I'd much rather have a frozen strawberry lemonade!

Why did McDonald's discontinue that drink up north? Too cold here, I guess! I have to travel down south to get that delicious drink?

Now......in my younger years........Well, we just don't want to go there!

[RichieLion]

Nothing like a nice cold beer in my view. That first gulp is always wonderful. In the evening a nice glass of Jim Beam or Southern Comfort and I'm as relaxed as could be. There used to be a cigarette with those drinks years ago, but at least I cut that out about 18 years ago.

[Figmo Bohica]

Four ozs of red wine each night and an occational beer now and then. As for my younger days, well that is in the past.

[billethkid]

I only drink on holidays or special occasions and I think it's National Peanut week.

If there are no holidays or special occasions then I just simply drink alone or with someone!!

btk

[skyguy79]

I drink nothing stronger than pop... and pop will drink just about anything!

Seriously, I got sick as a dog on Vodka and OJ when I was a teenager and ever since I haven't had much taste for alchohol. I will have an occasional drink when out but rarely have anything at home. What little taste I had got tempered even more because I dealt with the drinking driver for a number of years and saw the affects of getting caught driving while intoxicated, saw how nasty drunks can get and heard many incidents of how alcohol affects one's life and family.

There were a few positive experience I encountered on that job, like the woman whose driver's licence I was restoring upon completion of our Drinking Driver's Program. She told me that she just got married and that the person she married was... the arresting officer! Anyway, I think that was positive? I was even told by one person that getting caught was the best thing that ever happened to him. He said he had a problem and didn't know it. But after going through the drinking driver program and treatment, he then knew how to deal with his problem.

As for smoking, like RichieLion I too quit smoking, but that was nearly 33 years ago!

So that's my story and I'm sticking to it!