Barbayat's story
I never wanted to drink alcohol from the beginning. Before I reached puberty it had it three times. Once was when my mom was visiting a friend, while I was 8 or so, I had sip of wine - I hated it. Later I ate pralines, they tasted weird, but all looked different so I tried about eight different looking ones. Good was I sick, I fell down the stairs while nobody was at home. Later they told me it had alcohol in them. The third time was a few years later on New Years Eve. They asked me to try it for the toast. *yucks* Disgusting stuff. I vowed never again.
I don't know why, but even when everyone in school or from sports whom I knew went to parties to drink, I never was tempted. And seeing drunk people wasn't exactly changing my opinion. It's so disgusting, these out of control, nonsense-babbling filled-up idiots - alcohol changes persons so much and not to the better.
My das forbid me to go out to parties until I got drunk at home once, so I would learn my limitations. Thanks, but no thanks! I rather stayed at home then having to take even a sip of that stuff, least alone get drunk. *vomits*
Okay, my older sister nearly died from getting hold of a cognac bottle when she was at that age, I can understand that he was worried about me, but I am not my sister and the whole idea of getting drunk to know how it is, is just idiotic with a militant anti-alcoholic like me. I even asked people in restaurant not to put their wine glasses near my table, because I can't stand the smell of it.
All that talk about wine being so healthy in small doses and how it was such a glorified piece of life and culture, eventually got me curious again. I wondered if getting older it might not change how I felt about the taste of it. After all it would be nice to sit with the family in a restaurant and all enjoy one glass each. Forget it!
I took one sip of red wine somewhat later at the diner table, it tasted still fucking awful, but my dad said the real taste comes with the third one. I'm so dumb - I fell for it. I took two more small sips. One hour later I was so sick, I thought I die and I was no where near any amount of alcohol that gets a person drunk.
Alcohol isn't for me and when I see what it does to other people's life - it's a terrible substance, maybe okay if people drink it in moderation, but that rarely happens. Which is why the best solution is to stay away from it. You can have even more fun if you don't get intoxicated - and you get no hangover afterwards!