When you were underage, how did you hide your drinking???

[Mr. Lennon]

Parents didn't care if I drank, just as long as I didn't drive.

They busted me for smoking MJ when I was 16 though...

 

[HAL9000]

No. Unlike a minor or even a 20yo, a 21yo can legally buy and drink alcohol, but they can't *drink it legally* just anywhere. For example, there are signs posted at convenience stores that say that you can't open an alcoholic container on the premesis by order of law, so even a 21yo can't drink there. There are laws that say that you can't have an open container inside a motor vehicle (you can only transport canned/bottled alcohol), so a 21yo can't drink there either. All I'm saying is that a 21yo can legally buy a 5yo an alcoholic beverage and that 5yo can legally drink it but the 5yo can't legally drink it anywhere just like the 21yo can't even though the 21yo has no more restrictions than a 100+yo. Simple. It's legal to drink at any age, it's only legal to buy at 21 or higher.

Then why does this thread exist?! If your able to drink at whatever age, why did you need to hide it?

 

[slightlyhuman]

took an old blown subwoofer and cut the magnet off. put shaggy carpet on the box so you couldn't see that it had a lid on top. insulated it and kept all of our alcohol in that when we were underage.

good times.

 

[Saint Nick]

I didn't start drinking until I was 20. Even then, it wasn't very often honestly. The first time I got really shitfaced was when I took a road trip to the east coast and we drank in the car on the way out there. LOL, what a stupid idea.

 

[TwiceOver]

Hide the booze, or hide that I drank? I don't think I did either.

 

[Zeze]

I never had problem drinking underage.

When I was 16, I threw a massive house party while parents were gone. We had plenty of 21 yos that provided alcohol. And had zero problem drinking out in Chinatown. PFft, even popular night clubs would let us in underage if we just slipped a twenty with the license.

This was 07-00'. Holy fuck that was 10+ years ago already? Even then drinking underage wasn't super taboo like today... now everyone and media freaks out.

By the time I turned 21, 'drinking is cool' wore off and it wasn't as interesting. We didn't go, "YEAH 21!!!!! LETS GO DRINK!!!!"

 

[Saint Nick]

A co-worker had a really large party at UNL back in the 90s, and he got busted. The judge said he had two options, go to jail, or to join the military.

He joined the military.

 

[Zeze]

A co-worker had a really large party at UNL back in the 90s, and he got busted. The judge said he had two options, go to jail, or to join the military.

He joined the military.

?? Judge forced him a career option? They do that?

 

[DirkGently1]

I started frequenting my local pub at the age of 14. Nobody ever questioned my age and even the fact that i would nurse one pint of lager, for hours on end, didn't seem to give the game away

It was much better once i reached 16, had a full-time job and a pocket full of money. The one or two pints a night in the pub became eight pints pretty quickly! Now you can't get me in a pub for love or money. Instead i'll have a couple of cans at home whilst playing games on my PC.

 

[Saint Nick]

?? Judge forced him a career option? They do that?

I'm not sure honestly. That's the story he told me. TBH, he always seemed like a guy who was full of shit but I just took it for what he said...

Oh, and I never really answered the topic. I never really had to "hide" my booze, either. I had 21+ buddies buy it for me after work, and I just kept it in my dorm fridge. I did once get the "knock and talk" from campus RAs. I had a half-drank Miller Lite in my fridge from a bimbo, and tons of 40s in my trash can. I didn't really get in trouble, but they made me pour out all my booze. Oh yeah, this was when I was 21.

Dry campus, though. No biggie.

 

[Squisher]

Perk pretty much summed up my experiences also.

At 14 every Boy Scout camp out was accompanied with a fifth of liquor in my back pack.

 

[Old Hippie]

I grew up in a somewhat more egalitarian time and place before a lot of the material affluence that many of you now take for granted.

Times were quite different. For instance, there wasn't a single one of us (male) who didn't go get their driver's license the minute they turned 16, unlike what I hear happens today.

Parent's didn't go out as much, nor were the homes as vast. Most didn't have a separate "entertainment" room. So the only place we had to drink, really, was out in the woods or driving around in cars.

Because of this, I learned to drive while "under the influence" very, very well. As soon as whoever was driving started to swerve, I would demand to drive, and from that point on, I would put my entire attention into driving safely and well.

I enjoyed driving safely, defensively (before the term was ever even coined) and well, and I always brought the boys home safely!

This.

It was like that since the dawn of the car and one of the reasons DUIs weren't taken seriously.

It was pretty much a non-issue and many cops would just make you park your car and they would take ya home.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

This.

It was like that since the dawn of the car and one of the reasons DUIs weren't taken seriously.

It was pretty much a non-issue and many cops would just make you park your car and they would take ya home.

For every guy that can drive safely under the influence, there are 100,000 that can't. My mom was hit by one.

 

[Avalon]

I didn't start drinking until I was 20 because I never really felt like it at the time. However, when I did, it was at my best friend's house, where his older roommates used to hold massive 100+ person block parties at their apartment. No need to hide anything, until the cops showed up.

 

[CZroe]

Then why does this thread exist?! If your able to drink at whatever age, why did you need to hide it?

Parents. Also, that's partially my point: It's so taboo that even parents and other Americans don't realize that it's not illegal. In fact, they only think it's such a bad thing BECAUSE they think it's illegal (circular and incorrect reasoning). This is coming from someone who has never had a sip in his 30 year life.

 

[zebano]

I didn't start drinking until I was in college... living in a dorm makes acquiring & drinking beer quite simple.

 

[JimmiG]

I was 18 the first time I drank, and 20 the first time I got really drunk.

 

[Vapid Cabal]

I grew up in a somewhat more egalitarian time and place before a lot of the material affluence that many of you now take for granted.

Times were quite different. For instance, there wasn't a single one of us (male) who didn't go get their driver's license the minute they turned 16, unlike what I hear happens today.

Parent's didn't go out as much, nor were the homes as vast. Most didn't have a separate "entertainment" room. So the only place we had to drink, really, was out in the woods or driving around in cars.

Because of this, I learned to drive while "under the influence" very, very well. As soon as whoever was driving started to swerve, I would demand to drive, and from that point on, I would put my entire attention into driving safely and well.

I enjoyed driving safely, defensively (before the term was ever even coined) and well, and I always brought the boys home safely!

So proud, so brave

 

[Captante]

I "hid" my illegal drinking by appearing to be older then 18.... then when the drinking age gradually increased, my age kept pace for the most part and when it didn't I was "grandfathered" in. (Connecticut went 18, 19, 20, and then finally 21 over 4 years)

I had hair halfway down my back and could quickly grow a full-beard from roughly 15.5 years on... I can count the number of times I was "carded" during my teenage years on one hand.

 

[BoomerD]

No, that happened later. Much, much later. Not, in fact, until decades after we threw off the British yoke!

Speaking of that, sadly, I was too old to serve in the Continental Army, so I did my part by verbally taunting the redcoats from well concealed positions and by withholding sex from female Tory sympathizers.

The latter was cruel, and those women begged piteously for the merciful ministrations of my John Thomas, but it had to be done.

War is hell, my friend, hell.

I still remember well the day Washington and the Continental Army captured the airports.

 

[Torn Mind]

I am too egotistical and vain to get drunk.

 

[snoopy7548]

In my stomach.

 

[skyking]

not well

 

[IronWing]

Where and when I grew up it was pretty much expected that teens would get drunk at every opportunity.