Describe the situation when you have your first underage drink. I had had sips at my parents house

[applegrove]

but my first drink was a Pink Lady at a chinese restaurant with eight 15 year old girls. I'm sure they knew we were underage but we were so off the beaten track they served us anyhow.

[geardaddy]

1. I was 14 and had a stein of beer at a Swiss restaurant.

that stein was a liter.

[applegrove]

2. OMG - a whole litre!

[geardaddy]

3. lol

Yep. My dad had to help me with it. lol

[applegrove]

5. LOL!

[ohiosmith]

4. My aunt Faye would sneak me sips of her beer and puffs of her cigarette when I was four or five.

[blueamy66]

24. my Grandma and her sorority sisters

used to make a MEAN batch of Manhattans!

[TorchTheWitch]

6. I never drank alcohol and still don't

There isn't a single one that I've tasted that doesn't either taste like medicine or just plain tastes like something that belongs in a car engine. I've always been a very self-controlled sort of personality, so the idea of losing even a wee bit of my senses because of a drug, medication or alcohol gives me the weeblies. I've never been sorry.

[applegrove]

9. Good for you!

[Kaleva]

7. I was about 5 or so.

My dad had a fridge in the garage where he kept his beer. One day my mom found me and a brother in the garage drinking beer. My dad had to throw away all his beer when he got home from work later that day.

[digonswine]

8. My brother and I found a six pack of Old Style-

under the seat of my grandfather's tractor(Oliver '66). Wanting to be like the adults-we hoisted a few-not knowing the "real" reason "men" drink beer. I was 3 and a half and my brother was 5. My mother had duty of calling in to my brother's kindergarten to say he would not be in that day(my son is drunk--AGAIN!)Next time was 4th grade--now-at 37--I drink more than I should-shocking.

[Initech]

10. My cousin has a picture of me as a baby holding a full can of beer. Do I win?

[applegrove]

11. LOL!

[GoCubsGo]

26. You're tied for the lead, I think.

My dad has 8 mm movies of me sitting on Grandma's lap, drinking her Miller's. I think it was my first birthday party. I doubt that was the first one I had. My parents always allowed sips of their drinks, at least when we were more than 8 or 9 months old.

[sakabatou]

12. It was red wine. I was about 8 maybe

It was only a sip/shot. Thought it tasted horrible.

[kimi]

13. A friend's dad had some Ouzo

he'd brought back from Greece. She brought it to our junior high, and several other girls and I sampled it. My word, that stuff could peel paint off walls - one sip and most of us were semi-conscious. Still don't know how I managed the algebra test that day.

But it was a cultural experience, I will say that. I've never had it since, however.

[muffin1]

14. Lots of beer

at a discotheque (is that really spelled correctly?) in 1977. We had a great time, but the night didn't end all that well once I got home and threw up in front of my parents. :(

[Odin2005]

15. The family was at the lake and my mom gave me a wine cooler.

[dana_b]

16. I was 13 and at a friend's house and

her mom did not care what her daughter or friends did. I smoked pot for the first time and then had two shots of tequila. Then I stood up... so ignorant.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

17. did you puke

or fall down?

[dana_b]

27. wobbled around for a while

went home and fell asleep. I was surprised that my mom didn't seem to notice.

[csziggy]

18. My parents would give us sips of their martinis

Kept me from drinking until I was in my second year at college. That was nasty stuff! Back then the county where we lived was dry. Every so often Dad would drive to Tampa, buy a case of gin and a bottle of vermouth. They usually had vermouth left over.

[blueamy66]

25. I always got the olive from my Dad's martini

great memory

[csziggy]

28. We stole so many of the olives from their jar in the fridge

That may parents gave us each a jar of olives in our Christmas stockings. We'd each have a jar in the fridge with our name on it and if we ate them all, we had to buy another out of our allowances. It is still a family tradition. My nieces and nephews don't understand the whole olive thing, but we have great fun with it.

[blueamy66]

29. that's a cool story

it was just special to:

1. be at the bowling alley with my Dad and his AA friends the one or two times he let me go with each season, and,
2. to get his olive with a bit of vodker on it

:-)

[madmom]

19. At twelve I was babysitting for across the street neighbors on

New Years, they let me "toast" the new year with a shot of campaign, must have been the cheapest stuff they could find...nasty :puke:

[MiddleFingerMom]

20. I was about ten and met my paternal grandmother who scared the living CRAP outta me.

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.
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She was scary-looking and scary-sounding and threatened to brain me with
the iron she was pressing clothes with if I misbehaved (NOW, I believe she
probably had Alzheimer's).
.
We were visiting relatives. I RAN to my room and may have never come out
if my uncle hadn't come up and split a beer with me while reassuring me that
it was going to be OK.
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.
.

[MerryBlooms]

21. 14, Halloween night, my bf and apricot brandy from her mom's cabinet.

Just the thought of that stuff still makes me gag.

[Iggo]

22. I thought it was a glass of water.

It was vodka.

They told me don't drink it.

I did.

Oh shit.

EDIT: I was like 4 or 5 or 6 or something. Really little.

[blueamy66]

23. freshman year of HS

Homecoming float building with the Seniors when the drinking age was 18 in AZ

not a good idea to pair the frosh with the seniors

[HipChick]

30. its legal to drink at 6 in the uk

but Wine was always on the dinner table....what finally did me in was Mad Dog from a visting relative from the Usa..thought it was pop and drank the whole bottle

[LeftishBrit]

31. It wasn't underage for the UK...

but my first drink was at about age 8 at a relative's wedding party. But in the UK legal drinking age is around 5 (yes, I know you're all about to say that explains a lot about the Brits!), though you can't legally buy alcohol or drink in a bar or pub till you're 18.

[HipChick]

34. It never caused me to go crazy at 21..

Because I had access all along...

[LaurenG]

32. We all had a taste of Mogen David at Thanksgiving, I think we were pre-teens

none of us liked the taste.

[stuntcat]

33. Me break the rules?? NEVAR!

I didn't drink anything til I was 21. But NOT because I'm one for obeying laws mind you! That's just how it went.

And now I don't remember where I was or what I drank :( I must have been at college.. it was probably vodka, cheap cheap vodka.

[LibDemAlways]

35. Bali Hai Restaurant in San Diego - one of those

tropical themed places where little umbrellas used to come standard with the drinks. I was probably 16 or 17. My dad ordered a Singapore Sling and handed it to me. I don't know if the waiter noticed, but no one said anything. I drank the whole thing. it was delicious.

Went back to the restaurant recently (I'm now 58). The place has been remodeled and the menu is different, but damn if they don't still make an awesome Singapore Sling. Minus one star, however, for leaving out the umbrella.

[dr.strangelove]

36. We drank at home when I was young

The first time I was served was probably high school after my first track meet there was a party and I had a few beers. The first time I was served at a business was probably also my first year of high school, we went to a bar that was known to serve minors but charged $8 for a bad beer.

At home my family served wine from time to time with meals and I shared beers with my dad and uncles while watching sports and such.