I've just started reading back through the Days of Love and Hate I missed, though I may never make it if I keep trying to read everyone's comments on them as well, not to mention getting the urge every time to add my own $0.02. What a response!
Towards the end of last year, after a year of wanting to strangling my fellow TAFE-mates (all of whom, bar one, were fresh out of high school) for having as every second conversation topic either "how smashed I got last night/weekend" or "how smashed I'm planning to get tonight/this weekend", an equally non-drinking friend and I decided to try this "smashed" thing, just once, and find out what so many people see in it. Up 'til then I'd been tipsy a few times and quite enjoyed the light-headed feeling of it, but never more than that.
So we bought a couple of bottles of spirits and sat together in a local park. We drank and talked and drank and talked. And then we went home. Verdict: we'd opened up to each other a lot, and had a lot of laughs, both of which we do anyway (to me, these are the basic mainstays of any good friendship). And we'd staggered about a lot, fallen over a couple of times and felt distinctly ill, none of which had added anything positive to the experience.
Thing is, the next day I experienced the joys of alcohol poisoning for the first time. I can't call it a hangover, because it didn't have any of the symptoms so often portrayed in fiction - no sore head, over-sensitivity or dry /icky mouth, I just felt abominably ill and threw up a lot. And since then, it doesn't take more than a taste of alcohol to make me feel queasy.
So perhaps you could use that as an excuse? "Sorry, I'm allergic to alcohol..."
If nothing else, I'd love to know how people react (the occasion really hasn't come up for me yet). Would they believe it?
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Towards the end of last year, after a year of wanting to strangling my fellow TAFE-mates (all of whom, bar one, were fresh out of high school) for having as every second conversation topic either "how smashed I got last night/weekend" or "how smashed I'm planning to get tonight/this weekend", an equally non-drinking friend and I decided to try this "smashed" thing, just once, and find out what so many people see in it. Up 'til then I'd been tipsy a few times and quite enjoyed the light-headed feeling of it, but never more than that.
So we bought a couple of bottles of spirits and sat together in a local park. We drank and talked and drank and talked. And then we went home. Verdict: we'd opened up to each other a lot, and had a lot of laughs, both of which we do anyway (to me, these are the basic mainstays of any good friendship). And we'd staggered about a lot, fallen over a couple of times and felt distinctly ill, none of which had added anything positive to the experience.
Thing is, the next day I experienced the joys of alcohol poisoning for the first time. I can't call it a hangover, because it didn't have any of the symptoms so often portrayed in fiction - no sore head, over-sensitivity or dry /icky mouth, I just felt abominably ill and threw up a lot. And since then, it doesn't take more than a taste of alcohol to make me feel queasy.
So perhaps you could use that as an excuse? "Sorry, I'm allergic to alcohol..."
If nothing else, I'd love to know how people react (the occasion really hasn't come up for me yet). Would they believe it?