I've been fined twice for being intoxicated as an underaged person (you know how it is, you see people drink alcohol in movies, series, in real life, and can't just wait until adulthood because drinking is so "punk rock").
And I've called the cops once myself because some big old drunk stranger was sleeping in front of the entrance to our apartment house so that I couldn't reach home after school. The cops came, got him in the car and left. Apparently he was a regular to them and they even had a nickname for him (can't remember if it was "Colonel" or "Corporal".. or any other military rank).
That old chestnut...Underaged intoxication. Well, it's fortunate that's not treated as a major criminal offence as the jails would be full of underage people! Lol.
I guess it's nothing that many others haven't done before you though and I guess, considering you confessed to your crimes, that we'll over look it. I'm sure, as a legal-aged-drinker, you recreated those moments a few times?
I hope the Colonel never caused you too much grief. I sometimes wonder who those old drunks used to be...I mean they started as someones kid and somewhere just went off the rails I guess...We have a few veterans who are similar. Makes me sad.
Thanks for playing along.
Yeah, I've been black-out drunk as a legal-aged but things have changed a lot. I didn't drink for a while when I was with child and breastfeeding and now that the kid's in kindergarten I drink alcohol once in a blue moon, very rarely. And in a way I've come to hate alcohol, too... because I'm currently still living with someone who doesn't know how to stop.
Ah ok...Well, I'm not much of a drinker to be honest. Sure, I have one or two here and there, but never get drunk. I've been drunk three times in my life, the last when I was 30 (20 years ago) and don't really think I'm missing out on much. I never really touched alcohol at all until I was 22. Just wasn't interested.
Some think all of the above to be really weird, but I don't care. I'm not one to bow to peer-pressure preferring to be my own man. It's not like I don't get the chance to drink, I just don't feel inclined to do so mostly. It's situational of course.
I find it admirable. More and more people should feel about alcohol the same way.
In great quantities it's bad for the health and breaks relationships. One or two pocals of wine on some social occasion is fine but drinking every day.. ugh.
Anyway, I'm glad the copper was understanding about the car and all. Forgetting stuff is only human. :)
Thank you, I believe my limited drinking of alcohol to be of benefit to me; It makes those occasions i drink a little more special.
Oh year, that bloody cop threw me a bone! Losing my licence for something dumb like that (or at all)...Wouldn't be cool. Fortune smiled upon me last night.