Don't get me wrong, I did my share of college drinking. But I never appreciated beer until my late 20s, and still like a good fruity drink. [Yes Carrie Underwood, I am one of those girls that can't shoot whiskey]. And while my drink of choice is a Vodka Tonic, I'm not actually sure that I like them all that much. I didn't get into wine until law school, and even now, I like red a lot, and don't like white at all, and have no problem drinking $10 wine from the grocery store.
Where am I going with this? Here: I drink a lot more now than I did when I started law school.
Prior to law school my drinking was limited to the occasional cocktail with dinner, or celebratory parties where everyone ended up trashed (New Years, 4th of July, Halloween, etc).
Now? I've at least one drink for the past 4 nights.
Does this bother me? Not really. But I will concede that I am a light weight. Three drinks (two if they're doubles or heavy beers) and I'm toasty warm, and shouldn't drive, more than that... and well, overly affectionate Fat Girl comes out to play.
So what sparked this post? The following story:
Thursday night I'm out for trivia with friends. We're at a bar, so I get a Vodka Tonic (a single in a double glass - which means extra tonic, and it takes me longer to drink it). I have my drink - and get a mild ration of crap from one of my friends. Just giving me a teasing hard time, I'm used it, no big. But it really pissed off my other friend. (A rant about why should X give a crap about how much I drank - I wasn't drunk and I wasn't driving).
So Saturday night, I'm out with the teasing friend at a function and I have a glass of wine (one, when we got there at like 6:00 - we didn't leave til 8:30 and between the wine and leaving I consumed food, soda, and a bottle of water) and when we're leaving I a get the whole "Do I need to drive?" speech.
Now, I know this is again meant in jest - because I mentioned the other friend's annoyance at the first hard time. But i wasn't even showing faux signs of being drunk (I wasn't being loud, or affectionate, or giggly, or finding immature things funny).
But now I'm self conscious. I don't want it to be one of things that I'm sensitive about (I already have enough sore subjects), but I also don't want to be teased every time I have a single drink.
And I don't want to be one of those people who can't have drinks around certain people.
Gah - I hate letting stupid teasing get to me. But my personal feeling on teasing is - if it's the same thing over and over again, there's probably something serious behind the teasing.
Anyhow - for now I guess I'll just ignore it, and ask for another drink.
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