anat0l
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I drink probably an average of once a month. I say average, i.e. some months I don't drink at all, but it also doesn't mean I have 12 drinks in one go per year.
I'm a school teacher, and while you might think there's a lot about my job that might only be tolerable by drinking, I ain't that silly enough to know tomorrow is (often) another school day and turning up with any in your system is a risky decision.
But you'll sleep off whatever you've drunk, viz. just one glass. True, but then there's a host of other reasons: health (don't have the best track record on weight or the heart), often having to drive, harder to concentrate on school work after leaving school if a drink is had, etc. etc.
I grew up in a household where drinking was never normal at all except at celebrations. My mum never drank and neither does my sister - they never got used to it, couldn't get used to it and content to live without it. My dad mainly drank beer at parties (now an occasional wine); no where near alcoholic levels. He did some harder stuff when he was younger (Chivas Regal was choice top shelf stuff in the Philippines in his younger days), but nearly well past that when he became a father.
Most of my drinking happens when I'm travelling. Even then, because I'm really not used to drinking often at all, on board or in a lounge I'm also not used to knocking back constantly. I once read a trip report on Flyertalk of someone who consumed 8 bottles of Krug on a SQ flight - yeah no, not me and not even close; I wouldn't probably do one bottle unless I somehow nursed it all over one flight, and not chomping at the bit for an opportunity to find out.
I'm a school teacher, and while you might think there's a lot about my job that might only be tolerable by drinking, I ain't that silly enough to know tomorrow is (often) another school day and turning up with any in your system is a risky decision.
But you'll sleep off whatever you've drunk, viz. just one glass. True, but then there's a host of other reasons: health (don't have the best track record on weight or the heart), often having to drive, harder to concentrate on school work after leaving school if a drink is had, etc. etc.
I grew up in a household where drinking was never normal at all except at celebrations. My mum never drank and neither does my sister - they never got used to it, couldn't get used to it and content to live without it. My dad mainly drank beer at parties (now an occasional wine); no where near alcoholic levels. He did some harder stuff when he was younger (Chivas Regal was choice top shelf stuff in the Philippines in his younger days), but nearly well past that when he became a father.
Most of my drinking happens when I'm travelling. Even then, because I'm really not used to drinking often at all, on board or in a lounge I'm also not used to knocking back constantly. I once read a trip report on Flyertalk of someone who consumed 8 bottles of Krug on a SQ flight - yeah no, not me and not even close; I wouldn't probably do one bottle unless I somehow nursed it all over one flight, and not chomping at the bit for an opportunity to find out.
) was always, ‘we’re going to get you pissed’ so then it just became a personal stubbornness.
