Troper Teetotalers

So pretty much any troper who doesn't drink or if not of age, has no plan to. My reasoning amounts to health, and partially because I don't find it particularly attractive. While I respect that people do drink, I actually did have a family history where a grandparent had an alcohol problem, so I won't touch it.

I drink a full cup of beer when I was six; tasted like shit. So no more ethanol. I also value my memory power and my enjoyment.

Not much one for acquiring a taste to something that will just be expensive, and makes people act slightly stupid at times (not judging people who drink, but drunk people do act stupid)

I am personally Straight Edge, so no drinking for me. Heck, I use white grape juice as a wine substitute.

I'm underage, but I was forced to drink beer by my sisters, several times...Not as bad as it sounds really. It was the light stuff.

The sad part is that...I was starting to like it a bit, so I'm now avoiding the stuff for good.

I'm of age, but I have a pretty extensive family history on both sides, so I'm not gonna risk it.

Yep, this is me. I have various reasons, which I shall now elucidate.

1. I fear that any sort of intoxication would destroy my creative progress. My work, if published, will likely be controversial enough, without the influence of booze and drugs.

2. I'm already screwed-up, and I'd rather not know my drunken archetype.

3. My family generally has an above-average life-span, and I'd be curious to find out how much an avoidance of alcohol and tobacco can extend it.

4. My mother is an alcoholic.

It's against my religion to drink even I am of age now

I cannot drink, and I do not plan on drinking when I'm of age.

I might try a couple of things that I've always been curious of, but that's it.

Oh I forgot to mention I am of age and have been for 3 years now (it being 19 where I am from). My sole previous drinking experiences consisting of a few sips from my dad's glass when I was younger, and very low alcohol Communion wine at the rehearsal for first Communion when I was a kid (it tasted awful, nobody opted to take it for real).

edited 8th Apr '14 4:15:17 PM by phantom1

I've never had it, but I hate the smell. Probably wouldn't enjoy it anyway.

@Strawberry Yeah it smells terrible, especially wine and beer, and scotch.

edited 27th Apr '14 8:31:00 PM by phantom1

Hello, this is Mrs Ratched from the dry shore

Another teetotaler here!

@Ms.Ratchet, and Furienna Hi

edited 22nd Jun '14 12:10:36 PM by Phantom1

I never planned to drink when I was younger, and I find being drunk a very temporary and unsatisfying state of affairs, but I find the occasional nip of good brandy or bourbon with a good meal too pleasant a sensory experience to not drink at all.

But being drunk is a bore. You feel lighter than air and pleasantly disposed toward the world for a while, and that's all well and good; but you can tell that you are impaired and clumsier and making an ass of yourself, and that is way less fun than people make it out to be. Only when you are very drunk does this cease, but then you are so fogged that what does it matter anyway?

If any of you intend to drink at all, assuming that you are capable, I advise that you avoid situations where in more than the mildest of intoxication is an expected outcome on your part. Anything more and your evening will not be very fun for very long.

And I have to say that drunk people come across as creepy to me. They have lost at least some of their control, which will make them so unpredictable. And even if they try to be nice to me, something just feels off, which only makes me want to get away from them.

edited 23rd Jun '14 5:16:49 AM by Furienna

It's against my religion and I had personally seen enough drunks ruining their family so I won't even start.

Ditto! Well, the straight edge part, anyway. I'll take grape Zevia soda instead!

If you have been awake for over, say, eighteen hours at a stretch, then you have experienced a level of impairment equivalent to the blood alcohol level at which driving ceases to be legal or even feasible. Think of it like you are dealing with people who have not slept, but are in a good mood for whatever reason.

That does not keep very drunk people from being irritating, even when you are yourself impaired. They can be funny at first, much like stoned people, but in both cases the amusement quickly wears thin, particularly when they believe that they are less intoxicated than they actually are and attempt to do something very stupid, like drive or carry on a meaningful conversation.

Well, I drinked, when I was younger, because this is what supposedly I had to do, but I didn't liked the taste and I'm a Control Freak, so I'd die before allowing me to get really drunk, but I staged it very well. I was sober when others where drunk.

Also, inxplicably I have a very high tolerance to alcohol, so I am difficult to get drunk.

So I saw what people did while drunk, and that they seemed unable to have fun without alcohol and I said, I don't hav to do this if I really don't want.

Wich has given me a pretty friendless, boring college years, truth to be said...

I don't like the taste, it makes me very very tired even if I drink only one beer, and I feel that I'm a person who would be at risk to become addicted, so I just let it be. I'm really not feeling as if I'm missing something.

I accidentally drank a cup of Vodka when I was eight or nine. I spat it all out, and it took a few hours for the taste to get out.

Ever since, I never got the appeal of alcoholic beverages.

Yeah I understand that.

I don't drink anything with alcohol for personal reasons, namely my father and elder brother do and they don't drink responsibly. The latter even drink drove once.

Now, my sister tells me that I should drink because you eventually will have to. How should I get out of drinking when such occasions come up.

edited 25th Dec '16 12:56:00 AM by murazrai