How often do you go out to bars and taverns to drink? How many times did you go out when you first turned 21, and at what ages did you begin decreasing the number of times. I'm working on an article about the changes young folks undergo as they get older, as regards their drinking habits. If you didn't decrease, how did this affect your friends who did, or the reverse, when you decreased, and they didn't. how did this affect you?
2006-08-19 12:29:06 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I just turned 21 today, but I may be able to provide some insight. When I was in high school, alcohol seemed better than all other drugs, it removed my social inhibitions instead of making them worse like weed did. Then after high school came job corps, where alcohol was so scarce that every chance I got I drank as much as I could as fast as I could. But for the past year I've been living on my own, and it was never hard to obtain, so now that I'm 21 it has definitely lost its appeal.
2006-08-19 12:36:58 · answer #1 · answered by Jason F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 44 now i almost never go out to bars or taverns when i was younger 21 to 30 i went out all the time i don't really see the people i drank with then so i guess they have all been replaced with new friends the only reason i don't go out at all anymore is the police state although i would not go out as much as i did then i wouldn't mind going out once in a while but i can't take a chance getting arrested and no one ever wants to be designated driver for me so i won't do it for any one else if i could find people that would share the responsibility i would go maybe twice a month
2006-08-19 19:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I no longer go to the bars. My family was very open with drinking and I was able to drink at a young age. I went to the bars frequently until age 23. That is when I got married. My husband and I were both partiers. When we met and fell in love, we knew that the bar life would not make our marriage work and stopped going all together. We still have a drink now and then but nothing like before. When we stopped going to the bars, we "lost interest" in some of our friends. We found other things to do with our time than spend it in the bars getting drunk.
2006-08-19 19:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by Gary 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went out to drink rarely as a 21 year old since I was already had two kids and was married. I did, however, lose touch with a few friends because that was all they ever seemed to do.
I went out a few times if I had a sitter, but I eventually got tired of the bar scene and drank at home, if I wanted. I would say my partying days started to seriously decrease at about age 25. I was just over it. Now I'm 31 and I go out every once in awhile, but I'd usually rather stay home and hang out with my hubby.
2006-08-19 19:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by mynickname 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't go to bars and taverns to drink at all. I did go to a couple when I turned 21 but maybe twice a year at that. I just didn't get into drinking and all. I do go to comedy clubs once in a while but I usually have a non-alcoholic drink there. I do have alcohol every once in a blue moon. I guess I stopped drinking when I got pregnant the first time at 22. I was married and pregnant and then I got divorced. I never really drank because I just wanted to be in control of me. I don't like feeling like something else is in control of me.
2006-08-19 19:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had been getting into bars since I was 17 so by the time I was 21, the novelty had warn off. I can't remember the last time I went a bar. I drink with friends at some body's house a few time a month.
2006-08-19 19:38:41 · answer #6 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't start going out to the bars until my late 20's I guess my friends and I had better things to do. After I got married, my husband and I went out with another couple every Friday and Saturday night (out for dinner and then to a bar). It was when I got pregnant that all of that changed at the age of 29. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to a bar in the past seven years. The friends we used to go with pretty much stopped calling when we found out I was preg. which seriously hurt, but what can you do. I have different priorities in my life now:)
Good luck with your article.
2006-08-19 19:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by lolo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was 19-20 I went to bars/clubs a lot, probably averaged out to once a week, at least. (I could get into one local bar under aged and they never checked my ID.) By the time I turned 21 I was pretty burned out on going to bars. When you are young and dating it is a lot of fun, but I was getting older and more ready to settle down. And eventually you realize that bars are not a very likely place to meet the person you want to spend your life with. So I went to bars much less and tried to find other ways to meet people.
I met a guy, who would later be my husband, at work. We went out to bars some, but didn't go out all the time. I had my first child when I was 23. (We got married and had kids pretty quickly) and I would occasionally still go have "girls night out" with my friends, and my husband stayed home with the kids. On VERY rare occasions we would have my mother watch our son and my husband and I would go together.
Two years later I had another baby and by that time I felt like I had truly outgrown the bar scene. I'm 28 now and bars hold absolutely no appeal for me. There is nothing that seems remotely fun about going to a loud, smoky place to watch people desperately try to catch the eye of a member of the opposite sex. I don't have a problem with people going to bars (as long as they don't drive afterwards). To each his own, but for me, the appeal is no longer there.
Pretty much at the point in time when my husband and I got married, started having kids and stopped going to bars, our friends were doing the same. So no friendships were gained or lost by not going to bars. We have lots of other ways to spend our time together so we do still have fun, but not at bars. HTH!
2006-08-19 19:51:14 · answer #8 · answered by shanenenaquan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was underage I hung out in bars all the time-you could do that in Montana then-and when I turned of age I'd be there up to 4 times a week. That was the social life for all of us. Until my mid-thirties it was usually twice a week or so, and now, early forties, I don't have the time. I don't want to go by myself, no matter how old I get, and that has alot to do with my going rarely.
2006-08-19 19:39:58 · answer #9 · answered by sheryl m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 39, and I rarely went to bars, ever.The few times I went out, I always seemed to end up fighting.I still drink on occasion,but I haven't been drunk in 15 years or so.
When I turned 21, I went into a liquor store for the first time, bought a bottle of Jack Daniels, and did not get carded!
I was kinda pissed, because I had waited until I was legal and it didn't seem to matter.
2006-08-19 19:37:26 · answer #10 · answered by hott.dawg™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋