How Old Were You When You Had Your First Drink?

by drinking on December 15, 2009

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@nectarwine December 15, 2009 at 10:13 am

Well since I’m the first to vote, it’s obvious it was 14-16. I remember it well, they were 2L wine cooler bottles (probably strawberry flavored) – I threw up. Ack!

Josh @nectarwine

Leah December 15, 2009 at 12:44 pm

I voted 14-16 also, because I had my first sip in 8th grade, at a sleepover at my friend’s house. I think we tapped into her father’s liquor cabinet. It was an amber liquid in a fancy glass that I sipped. It must have been whiskey. It tasted like medicine, but it warmed my throat and it felt thrilling to be doing something forbidden. My first full drink was senior year of high school: a beer, followed by wine coolers (the alcopops of yesteryear–remember Bartles & Jaymes?)

lori December 15, 2009 at 6:30 pm

10th grade. It was a bacardi and coke, in a plastic cup with a straw (camouflage!) at a high school hockey game. I nursed the drink–it didn’t taste very good–but it was a thrill to get tipsy for the first time. In high school I seldom drank enough to get drunk, just tipsy. That was, and usually still is, enough for me.

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