General Chat Thread (No Debate)

[MadMojoMonkey]

I don't drink much. Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Most of the time I'm in a place where there's drinking, I just have water.

I don't talk about the fact that I'm not drinking; I just turn down any offers for a drink with something like, "I'm good, thanks."

You don't have to tell people.

In my experience, people tend to get a bit weird when they learn that your not drinking and also not a recovering alcoholic. Which is dumb, and I can't help but be entertained by it in a smug little way. Probably worth the entertainment value, if you can manage to not come off as a smug jerk, IMO.

[spoonitnow]

I don't talk about the fact that I'm not drinking; I just turn down any offers for a drink with something like, "I'm good, thanks."

Pretty much this. After someone (usually a female) sees me turn down drinks a number of times, they usually ask me if there's some reason I don't drink.

The reason I don't drink is because when I start, I don't really have a stop button, and I'm totally over-the-top belligerent when I'm drunk. I figured this out by ~18 and just decided to stop period.

Most males on both sides of my family are/were alcoholics at some point, which helped with that decision.