how old were you when you were first purchased alcohol?

[datasuspect]

store or bar, doesn't matter.



i was 14.

[ThomCat]

1. At a family event: 4.

At a bar: 19.

[Dora]

2. 17 in a store w/ a doctored ID. n/t

[deepthought42]

3. 21. Yeah, I'm a rebel.

Don't be hatin'. :smoke:

[Ekirh]

10. 21 here also . .

And it was half a year after my b-day too.

[deepthought42]

32. Although, I did recently go into a liquor store for the 1st time alone...

And I'm about to turn 25...

[Ekirh]

38. I haven't done that yet actually (24)

I'll be 25 in August

YOu have to understand I usually average a half a year span between beverages

[deepthought42]

47. Yup, I can understand that...

I think I actually drank less often than that DURING college, lol...

I went during my lunch break...less scary, lol

[wildhorses]

4. liqour --15/ beer -- 17

:hi:

[applegrove]

5. 16

[NMDemDist2]

6. Bar-16

I was a hottie, the door man loved me :evilgrin:

[catmandu57]

9. Girls get away with everything

17 at a bar.

[Strawman]

7. 16

There were always guys hanging out in front of stores that would buy us a case of beer and/or liquor for like $5.

First time I bought myself was at a party store in the city. I think I was 17 then.

[AllegroRondo]

8. 16

of course, I was an exchange student in Germany at the time, so it was legal.

[Alexander]

11. 19.

I didn't need a fake. Nobody bothered to card me.

[WinkyDink]

12. 21st birthday.

[trof]

13. 16 or 17.

There was a juke joint roadhouse way out in the country.
The Clover Club.
I'll never forget it.

The saying was if you could see over the bar they'd sell it to you.
And the bar wasn't all that high.

[Rhythm]

14. 18...

Beer and wine were legal for 18 yr olds, so around my 18th birthday, i went with a couple of friends to a restaurant called "Annabelle's", and ordered a couple of pitchers of "Lemonade Spritzer", which was absolutely refreshing, but really stole my legs...

[Zavulon]

15. If a beer at dinner counts, I had my first one at 5 or 6.

If you mean like a whole six pack or more, maybe 13. I'm not sure.

[Alexander]

23. You bought a beer at dinner?

How much did your folks charge you?

[Zavulon]

29. You phrased your question "when you WERE first purchased alcohol."

I thought you meant when someone bought one for you, as in perhaps parents who let underage kids drink at their house. Now that I know what you meant, the answer is 14 or 15.

By the way, ThomCat - the first person to respond to your question - answered "at a family event: 4." How did he avoid your brilliant riposte?

[mitchum]

16. 15 without an ID...13 when I had some stranger going into a grocery...

buy it for me

[baldguy]

17. 16

The drinking age was 18 at the time - and I looked way older that I was.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. 17

Word got around that there was a guy at this liquor store who'd sell to pretty much anybody. I went in one afternoon and got a six-pack of 16-ounce Buds. (If I remember right, that night was the first time I got drunk.)

Coupla weeks later, the store was boarded up. :)

[Zoigal]

19. 18th BD...

[Left Is Write]

20. 18.

[Nikia]

21. I bought a strawbeey daquiri at a restaurant

My date (my now husband) was a little annoyed because he was still 20.
There is no way that I would have tried to buy alcohol before it was legal. At 29, I often still get carded.

[SarahB]

22. 17

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. 16.

There was a liquor store a few blocks from my college, and they'd sell anything to anybody. I started college at 16 (and I looked 12), and even though at that time the legal age was 21, I was never carded and could buy all the sloe gin and 121-proof rum I wanted.

Of course, I eventually paid for this sin by having to call Ralph on the big white phone for hours at a time.

[BrotherBuzz]

25. 16 in a bar, 22 in a store...

unless Class VI Stores count. :shrug:

[xmas74]

26. 14.

I hitchhiked with a friend out to the junction, dolled myself up at the gas station and walked into the strip club next door. I told them at the bar that I was 18 (even though the drinking age was 21 no one cared) and purchased a beer.

I didn't buy a single drink after the first one that night. Everyone purchased drinks for me the rest of the night. I was even offered a job. (Which I didn't take since I couldn't prove that I was 18.)

[huskerlaw]

27. 18

at a bar in Denver. Thankfully, I wasn't asked for ID.

[Arkansas Granny]

28. I was 25. I guess I'm a late bloomer.

[bigwillq]

30. 18

:beer:

[bertha katzenengel]

31. 23 n/t

[Burma Jones]

33. 11 - Mardi Gras - Bali Hai Fortified Wine

I told the Clerk I was buying it for my Dad and pointed to some guy outside the store.....

[stuntcat]

34. 22

I was very good, I even went to nightclubs for years before I even had wine or anything.
And then I went crazy clubbing and raving :evilgrin: luckily I outgrew it

[reyd reid reed]

35. I think I was 17.

By the time I was legal, it had lost its appeal and I was pretty much over the whole thing.

:shrug:

[bluedigger]

36. 15 - Bar

Hitch hiked with pal 20 miles from Boy Scout camp to "The Silent Woman". Tequila Sunrises 'til close! Bartender was hot. Got lift in '57 T-Bird on way back to camp...

(What happened to that kid?)

:shrug:

[bikebloke]

37. 23

In Oslo, Norway. A friend treated me. So that's where my taste for beer began. Only I can't stand american beer. But I'm a disgustingly light drinker. One beer a week.

[u4ic]

39. 16

At a nightclub that had no problem with underage drinking...until the cops raided it one night. A friend and I hid in the bathroom, and strangely, the cops didn't search it.


It was freely available at home if I wanted it.

[Scooter24]

40. Had my first drink at 16...

but didn't actually buy anything till I was 21.

[mentalsolstice]

41. Probably 15 when I made the actual purchase...

first drink in a bar...bought by my first (real) date when I was 14.

On edit: However, I managed to keep my virginity until I was 20.

[Broken_Hero]

42. 21yrs old.....nt

[Vidar]

43. Eighteen & that was legal age then. ' changed it to 21 when I turned 23.

[noonwitch]

44. 18-the early 80s were an easy time for underage drinking

The old Michigan driver's licenses were also easy to alter.

When I was at WMU in Kalamazoo, there were several establishments that catered to the underage drinker-the main one was Coral Gables, the local branch of a chain of bars. Most frats were still modeling themselves after Delta Tau Chi, so they always served underage rushees, pledges and girls. I had friends who worked in stores that sold alcohol, and there was a store in Grand Rapids I could always get it at.

Michigan raised the drinking age back to 21 sometime around 1977 or 78. They still weren't enforcing it really well in 1983-4. The law also recognized that if you were 18-20 and drinking, you were a legal adult who was responsible for his or her own actions. The bar or store wasn't, as you knew you were breaking the law.

[slj0101]

45. 20, at a college bar that catered to underagers.

I started drinking well before that, but never had the courage to actually buy the drinks myself.

[Skittles]

46. 14

I was living with an alcoholic aunt in Decorah Iowa who used to send me to the local supermarket with a note to get her beer - my uncle used to record the mileage on the car so she couldn't go (I found this out later)

[graywarrior]

48. 14

But I raided my parents booze when I was 10.

[Katina]

49. I don't remember

:beer:

[jpgray]

50. I think 16?