did you drink in high school?

or do other bad things?

drank from 12, smoked weed from 13 until 16 or so when i realised i didn't like it, skipped class for weeks at a time. What a rebel.

My high school drinking was very, very limited due to going to a party relatively early on where people got trashed and did things like jumping into bonfires. Being inebriated and not entirely in control of what was happening to me around these people struck me as a wholly bad idea.

I did get trashed on my 18th birthday, though.

i was "straight edge" for most of high school

i even "xed up"

I was straight religious for all of high school. Didn't date, either.

I don't think I even drank in college. Maybe a beer or two.

i didnt date either but that was cause i was irritating and fat

My first high school bender at seventeen was on this stuff:

http://pics.livejournal.com/adins/pic/00001fwx/s320x240

After a suitable layoff period, I drank at every high school party until graduation: strictly beer, though. I've since lost the enzyme in my salivary gland that allowed me to drink Miller High Life, Icehosue, and Busch (in cans) with pleasure.

But put them together and that's a fine mixed drink.

No. Alcohol brought out the total asshole in my dad and younger brother, so I avoided it.

I also dated girls then! Helluva of a cocktail.

I was in the dork/smart crowd at an all-girls Catholic high school so for the most part, no. The summer between high school and college when I was 17 was a different story. That's when I had my first serious boyfriend, drank, smoked and had sex all for the first time. Not in excess though - I was still really innocent and v naive.

It was more like . . . omg I just had a WHOLE beer!

My first three years of college were sober ones. I didn't really footloose until grad school.

I lived in India for my freshman and sophomore years, where there was very easy access to alcohol and drugs, but I was pretty nervous about both so didn't use them often. Got drunk a few times, tried to get high a few times (mostly unsuccessfully), had a bad experience, haven't done any illegal drugs since then.

smoked weed at age 17, before i ever got drunk -- a long time considering my i lived with my hippie-turned-yuppie dad who smoked regularly. drank a few times in HS but not frequently or excessively until sophomore year of lol college.

My answer to the thread question is yes, and quite a bit.

Drank, smoked, fucked, et caetera, from about 15 or so.

^hero

hahaha

and what about you, surm?

drank weekly during the last year or so of high school (or the equivalent)
never smoked or did any drugs
all the reasonably advanced sex stuff happened the summer btwn then and college.

Smoked weed a little whenever I could steal some from bro and smoke it in a soda can with the cuet neighbor girl.

Drank a 40 of mickeys (lol house of pain style) in Griffith park and felt buzzed.

yeah what michael said, except my first boy was at 17

lol soda cans

I've since lost the enzyme in my salivary gland that allowed me to drink Miller High Life, Icehosue, and Busch (in cans) with pleasure.

man, don't lump high life in with that other shit.

i didn't really drink in high school, and if i did i don't think i really got drunk (shitty beer, not enough of it).

I guess there's maybe going to be a divide here between US/Europe? Pretty much everyone I know drank at high school to some extent or other!

lol soda cans

Hahahaha I only did this once during the aforementioned summer I went a little crazy. Got ridiculously high/paranoid and convinced myself I was dying of "aluminum poisoning". Not a good time.

Drank alot from junior year in high school til today. Love it.

Nope. Hung out mostly with the smart kids/theater kids, so it just never really came into play.

In fact, threw a holiday party in 12th grade and wrote on the invitation, "Time: 7 PM until we all get sloshed and have to call for rides." I was surprised when my parents made my change it because in my mind it couldn't possibly be anything other than a joke.

So it was kind of a shock when I got to college and saw my jock roommates getting wasted pretty much every night, which then had the effect of actually turning me against drinking for a couple years. The first time I got drunk was in Scotland, while on study abroad, right before I turned 20.

yeah i did plenty, but oddly kept it kind of separated off from my day to day HS experience. one of my closest friends expressed total amazement at the stuff i was up to when we talked about it in college. two very different social groups that didn't intermingle much. oh and guess what, the people i still know are like 99% from the sober HS side. go figure.

no.

Because I didn't drink at all my first two years of college, I never had the shitty beer phase that so many people go through -- don't think I've ever tasted Coors or Busch or Icehouse or Natty Light. When I got drunk for the first time, it was off red wine and Guinness. Although it's not like my palate was super-refined, either: the first beer I ordered in a bar after turning 21 was (lol) Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.

(Haha John was that the purity test conversation or did you amaze someone else, too?)

haha it was actually fluffy bear (RIP) but yeah i had forgotten about the purity test thing ha

i only recently entered my "shitty beer" phase

lol boarding school

from 16 to 18. i was, for some reason, wholly under the impression that the legal age for drinking was 16 for about two thirds of this period, though, and i did stop and think "maybe i should stop" when i found out.

lamp what does that mean, i have 0 knowledge of boarding school

i am wondering what that means also

(bcz i went to boarding school)

Purity test?

I didn't drink a drop in high school (or do any drugs) because:

a) was one of the smart kids, sarcasm was our poison of choice
b) hate hate hate beer to this day - I only drink wine/spirits
c) because the people who did that stuff, at that age, in that place were gross and brain-dead
d) imported 12-inch singles were $4 or $5 a pop and I made one of those 'difficult financial decisions' to get those instead.

Lots of buggery at boarding school?

lol dunno what he means he either but i went to boarding school and drank a bit from 16 onwards but never got properly wasted until 19. smoked 14-17. tried weed a couple of times, didn't see what the big deal was.

ignore second "he"

Didn't drink at all until the very end of my freshman year at college.

lol soda cans

Good Christ, this. I just realized the other night while cooking a pizza that my first time doing this was actually not, and that the dudes who were there tricked me with oregano.

Assholes. I don't talk to either one of them anymore.

Got drunk for the first time - sophomore year of high school? 7$D was HUGE in my high school around that time, too...ugh. W33d didn't show until...freshman of lollege? I think?

Yep. Started experimenting with stuff around 12. Didn't really have any friends in school, though, so it was pretty compartmentalised into drinking/smoking outside of that, going to pubs and gigs when I realised I could get into them, and studying pretty hard when I was in school. I never went for the traditional teenage drinking of shitty cider in parks or anything (partially because I didn't have any friends to hang out with, but also because I always found that idea horrible), so I just drank in the same way I do now. Except not as much.

every1 at the schools i went to drank - i mean i doubt every single person did but drinking, smoking weed &c pretty common buggery less so because of not being british i assume always lots of parties sneaking off general good times

when i got 2 college i impressed everybody that had 2 live w/ their parents with my drug stories and i was pretty moderate ime

buggery less so because of not being british

lol

Yeah the college I went to my first two years was filled with a lot of very wealthy boarding school kids who had been drinking and doing tons of drugs throughout high school. The very first night of orientation I wound up at a party where there was more booze and drugs than I'd ever seen. I was pretty much like this the whole night O_O but to the ppl I was with it was nbd.

I might add that in HS, everyone knew what my uncle did for a living (COP! Head of Mpls Vice!) so I was about the last person my classmates would involve in drug nonsense (I've since heard a lot more about what people on the other side of town did when their parents were busy having key parties or otherwise ignoring them during divorces). My college also featured a huge number of boarding school kids but in practical terms, I attributed their love of weed and trips to be more Dead-related than a side-effect of boarding. I didn't partake at all until my last year of college, because I went to NY as a fresher right after the Central Park preppy murder and the carding was really very rigorous as a result.

Suzy am I making this up or did you go to Sarah L? I don't know why but I have it in my head that you did. I ask only because my bf freshman year went there and I saw stuff going on in the dorms while visiting him there that I didn't know even actually happened outside of movies.

loving the grateful dead is a side effect of boarding schools as much as being gay is

I went to high school with HI DERE and John; I think I drank even less than HI DERE. My little sister came home drunk and vomiting enough that I was like, "where is the fun in that?!" Also, HHS people could be really dangerous/stupid. ALSO, my parents owned a liquor store, so for me it wasn't really a forbidden substance.

HS was more d00bz than b33rz for me on the whole (tho it still wasn't very much of either). has been decidedly the opposite ever since

lol honors student paranoia

LOL honors student paranoia indeed: every single thing I did between the ages of 14-18 was about getting the fuck out of MInnesota or having money to buy records and vintage clothes.

Erica, yes, that's where I went. What happened in the dorms? If you went during Bacchanalia, $10 bought a little care package of weed and mushrooms. When I was there, decadent rich kids had antique drinks cabinets in their rooms and suchlike, while all the hard drugs were done by music people the second they moved off campus. The most intense thing I ever witnessed was a Thanksgiving dinner that began with a benediction of sorts from the Church of Sub-Genius book and ended with an orgy.

i smoked weed almost every weekend freshman and sophomore year then fell out with those friends and started turning to alcohol for debauchery - but far less frequently - and didn't really pick weed up until senior year where i started smoking every weekend again and like... going to wendys all the time. it was cool tho cuz my friends at this point had never really done shit like that in hs so it made me feel "young again"

the first time i ever drank was the new years eve when i was 15, but whenever i drank in hs it was always hard liquor and everyone drank too much and got sick. i can't drink or even really smell vodka to this day because of high school.

weed was just easier to get... i knew like two or three kids who served and like maybe one with a fake ID and even then no one wanted to risk getting their ID taken on your account of course

Also, HHS people could be really dangerous/stupid.

This can't be stressed enough. I can think of 7-8 kids out of our 900+ person high school off the top of my head who were killed in stupid alcohol-related incidents, the most spectacular one being an ill-fated Russian Roulette game in the middle of a barn party. (Several more were maimed for life in alcohol-related incidents, including a dude who passed out on some train tracks and had his legs cut off when we were in junior high.)

Basically I'm amazed John is still alive, lol.

I was a huge nerd band geek so no.

xp John has some kind of crazy luck thing going for him. (Remember how he used to drive, even when sober?)

John put us nose-first into a ditch one winter, OF COURSE I remember how he used to drive!

okay, so maybe the luck isn't 100% effective at all times...

Suzy - Things like walking in on my boyfriend's roommate snorting something off another guy's chest and just seeing A LOT of drugs (some of that not in dorms) that I didn't (at the time) realize ppl really did. This was all during the first half of that year where I was still a fairly wide-eyed former orchestra geek who thought the occasional bong hit was pretty wild so it pretty surprising to me at the time.

wow guys snorted things off each other's chests?

sounds like your kind of dorm surmo

yes i did and it surprised a lot of people, because i was a "good kid". but i knew some slightly worse kids, and also some older friends who went to college in my hometown, ergo...

i'm lucky nothing terrible happened to me, but i managed to keep relatively quiet and safe about it. still have trouble drinking tequila to this day tho

x-posts lol yes! I was 17 and just like . . . woah. This is a lot different that what I get up to in my dorm room. lol.

i used to cut gym and drink gin in the bathroom

oops

lol in college I befriended a bunch of ppl who I only discovered years after the fact were massive cokeheads; to this day, I have never seen anyone doing coke or injecting anything illicit

when i was 14 and at a new school i made friends like the 2nd week w/ this girl in my media arts class and we both asked to go to the bathroom and instead went to her room and drank scotch out of a thermos before going back to class never looked back from there

high five

oh the funny part is when she got out the thermos it was one of those clear plastic ones - i was like "is this apple jiuce?!?" and she laughed at me and just sd drink it

snapple bottles

In retrospect I can see how it's a good thing that me, Snapple and vodka never collided at SLPHS. Plus I've never done coke in my life and I'd like to keep it that way. Back then I could always point to the straight A's/no bouze thing and say, to my mom, 'you prefer cleaning up the drunkpuke of my younger sister to being told you're wrong every so often, by a teenager?' For this, I was nearly deemed incorrigible (if we were really fighting, whenever my mom whipped out a biglongword, I would shush the room and say we need to congratulate Claudia on her big vocab moment here).

LOL Erica that is kind of a boilerplate SLC experience.

I can't imagine how quickly I would have been killed had I attempted to pull a "big vocab moment"-type stunt on either of my parents.

I'm guessing halfway through the second "shh"

Back then I could always point to the straight A's/no bouze thing and say, to my mom, 'you prefer cleaning up the drunkpuke of my younger sister to being told you're wrong every so often, by a teenager?

hope she she was like "clearly yes u insufferable retard"

I was in high school from 1968-1972. I was a relatively straight arrow. When I was at a party where alcohol was available, I would drink some, but not much. I also smoked a bit of pot, but back then it wasn't very potent stuff and I kept my consumption low.

I didn't go overboard until I got to college.

My stats:

Cigarettes: tried them for the first time when i was 11, didn't pick 'em up again until i was 17. still smoke, unfortunately. worst decision evah.

Weed: 13 for the first time, occasionally for the next couple of years, real hardcore at 17, never stopped since because i love getting high.

Booze: drunk at party around 16, then got drunk once a week until college, drank every night for first six months of lolcollege, stopped for 6 months, started drinking every night again, though only two or three nights a week to get drunk. i enjoy beer of all kinds, tho my poor grad student ass hardly ever drinks anything except cheap stuff nowadays...

mushr00ms: first time at 17, a couple more times til college, twice in college, once since then. never want to touch the things ever again.

aciiiieeed: more than 20 times. don't ask how my brain still functions.

c0ca!ne: first time at 17, a bit here and there til i was 21, then it got serious for a bit, then slowed for a year, then got heavy for a year. now i only will do it for free.

SEX: first time with a guy, 16. first time with a girl, 17. did the whole bi/fluid thing for a while, then didn't have sex with anyone for a year, then basically became who i am now: a 90% fag.

I didn't drink a LOT in High School, but I certainly did whenever the opportunity arose. I went to a strict private Christian school, so this was just as much about "sticking it to the man" as it was about having a good time. The clean smart kids/dumb partying kids thing (is this a real thing or something invented to make people feel better about a boring High School social life?) that seems to be commonly spoken of here wasn't really the breakdown in my High School. It was more clean Jesus kids/everyone else. And of course smart/dumb didn't break down along those lines.

xp - ha, my unofficial faculty mentor in HS suggested I go to Sarah Lawrence! ...but my mom refused to let me go to college in NYC because she thought it was too scary.

Like Suzy, most of my time in high school was spent working towards getting out of the place where I grew up. My parents had invested at one point in a semi-stocked liquor cabinet, probably when I was relatively young and they had recently moved to the dumb town I grew up. They undoubtedly had plans to use the booze for "proper" entertaining, but most of the friends they ended up making in said dumb town were more beer and wine people. Thus, when I hit 15, I would methodically go through the bottles one by one - mixing whatever it was with some fruit juice in a thermos - climb out my bedroom window, go to a park or vacant lot, drink and write bad goth poetry and prose. Not every night - just once a week or every two weeks.

lotsa HS drinking in my hometown. we were just across the bridge from Louisiana when many parishes were still 18 to drink. so many folks had fake IDs by the time they were 15 or so. I wasa one of these folks.

there was also drive-thru daiquiri shop in LA which was often a desitnation for seniors who could leave for lunch. i was really not one of these folks.

I went out to pubs (eh, a pub) in late high school, would have two pints and feel like a real hard man. But I would also drink wine at home with my parents, might even have done that while in Primary school (my parents would join me in class with a nice bottle of chablis).

Basically I'm amazed John is still alive, lol.

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Thursday, July 9, 2009 5:24 PM (59 minutes ago)

me too!

closest i ever got to real danger (in HS) was hypothermia from wandering outside so no one knew i was puking and then just deciding to sit down and hang out for a while. In MN February.

Well, that and when that dumb waxen-foreheaded girl decided to stand in the middle of the bonfire and then got frightened and confused when she started to catch fire.

good times.

kid falling asleep (or w/e) on train tracks and getting his legs cut-off is :-OOOO

a guy I went to high school with got hit by the light rail -- he lived, but me and my best friend (who this guy had dated and dumped) were blown away that anyone could be that stupid/wasted to get hit by the light rail.

Oh yeah, cigarettes! I was a social smoker from the summer after freshman year in college until... 2 years maybe? after I graduated (and I do mean "social smoker"; I would take a week and a half to go through a pack of cigarettes unless I was at a party, which is probably why it was so easy for me to stop).

he clean smart kids/dumb partying kids thing (is this a real thing or something invented to make people feel better about a boring High School social life?) that seems to be commonly spoken of here wasn't really the breakdown in my High School.

In fairness, this dichotomy was not really true in my high school, either; drinking was a unilateral activity across the board and the only reasons my drinking was sporadic were 1) seeing the dangerous depths some kids would sink to (cf "jumping into bonfires"); 2) total terror at the idea of being the only black kid at a booze party busted by the cops; and 3) severe lack of alcohol access mixed with having to drive 15-20 minutes to get home from anywhere fun I wanted to go except for John's house.

xp: John, do you remember when T1m M4y knocked her out of the bonfire and she screamed "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT FOR???" at him? That basically made me decide to seriously curtail the number of drinking parties I was going to attend.

also lol @ us splitting shitty beers (Miller Lite I think?) and you drinking most of them because they were gross

yeah, she was a traet.

i suppose that the other time i thought i was going to die was when i got ridiculously stoned during the choir scavenger hunt (loool) and then ate an entire 40 oz thing of swedish meatballs out of M1k3 D0nd3ll1ngers parents fridge in like 5 minutes.

xpost hahaha my love of shitty beer was born early

^^^40 oz of meatballs is one way of saying I Love You to your colon, John.

Dan, from everything you've told me about your folks they were more strict about cursing and backchat and made more of a united front than, say, a single mom who also cracks wise if there's an open goal. It makes a big difference.

Lamp, I didn't know you cared. Please stop.

My little sister (who sounds like she would compete well in the HHS stakes) provided gallons of drunkpuke to the Minnesota sewers as a teenager because she was very tall from about 13 and could get served or bought-for by her sketchy friends. We had to share a room from the day she came home from the hospital (me, at 3, a few days later: 'I'm bored, can we bring it back?') to the day I left for college and two more dissimilar people have never been asked to share space. If she came in late and disturbed me I rigged the stereo to play Handsome Devil by The Smiths at high volume, usually at 8am the following morning.

When I went to college she moved downstairs to the basement: room for her new waterbed, private entrance. She was 15.

xp John really will drink ANYTHING, even now.

also LOLOL about M1k3's parents fridge and the meatballs. I am trying to picture M1k3's rxn to your antics and that is amusing me.

Most of my "my God I'm going to die" stories involve John!

- The time we we drank that "peppermint-infused vodka" (actually was a thermos filled with vodka with a giant candy cane stuck in it) and went to Rocky Horror the summer after freshman year of college (or was that winter break? now I can't remember).
- The really horrifying New Year's '95 party where your cousin wanted to beat me up and I told him I could kick his ass even though I was incapable of moving.

29 and still edge :/

i am a gift that keeps on giving xpost

x-post A lot of my good friends from college were SE for years but they all broke it by the time they were 25 I think.

The car ride home from Rocky Horror is, to this day, one of the most miserable experiences of my life, topped only by the massive amounts of puking I did at FB's house while his mother shook her head at me.

My college boyfriend was SE for about 3 months during which time he went out and got a SE tattoo despite my explicit advice to the contrary at the time. He was drinking whiskey from the bottle at his birthday party a cpl months later. lol idiot.

i knew loads of sXe kids in high school and i am fairly certain all of them have broken it, including the kid who got giant black X tats on the tops of his hands lol

God, everyone drank at my (British) school. I didn't for a while but about 14/15 started drinking round at friends' and stuff - discovering parents' home brew in a cupboard, all that. Actually my best mate's mum used to send us out on the streets with White Lightning or Bacardi, grim. Drinking started properly at 16 when I started college, going to pubs etc, can't believe I got served as I had a babyface but I don't remember them being as strict then - it's all "think 25" now. I guess this is pretty normal for a Britisher in a small town.

what is the drinking age in the UK?

18, but if you are with your parents in a restaurant you can have wine if you are 16, I think.

xp I went to the UK on my own at 17, the summer between high school and college, and was never carded.

When drinking goes bad.

oh snap

wonder if that dude is related to the guy who tried to mug yr dad in (I think?) LAX, John

The law is worded so that the young drinker has to 'appear' to be of age; most 17-yr-olds even now are not having a problem.

When I was 25 I went to a pub with a writer I knew who was only 15, on a Thursday in Hampstead (in London, this is where a lot of people of school age try to get served, on Thurs because many are from Sabbath-observing Jewish families). They carded me but not her; I think it was to do with size of boobs (she had them, I still don't).

No drinking or drugs in high school. No dating, either (tbh, I couldn't get a date in high-school if I walked into a women's prison with a fistful of furloughs).

above = me too. college was fun tho. (so, drinking/pot/girls = 18/19)

I still have never smoked cigarettes and never will because I hate them as much as I hate anything in the world.

and the only non-pot drug I'd ever do is opium. opium seems cool for some reason.

cuz it's very chilllll

While I was at school, absolutely nothing. Surprising, given my intake from 18 onwards. I think it was just that hanging around a car park drinking cheap white cider just didn't appeal.

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started drinking at 16, my friends started a year earlier, so i was ostracized for a while until i joined the party. also started going to bars at 16, the drinking age was still 18 then so it wasn't quite a stretch as it would be now. i drank a lot my senior year of high school. smoked a few cigs and some weed, never cared for either

i would have been a regular at local bars/clubs from maybe the age of 13 (everyone knew everyone else & you didn't have a hope of getting served that young, so they were kinda relaxed about just letting you in), but didn't start drinking for a couple of years after.

My grandfather owned a tavern. As a result we had an entire storage room in our basement full of booze. My mom threw wild parties in the fifties when her parents went out of town and we continued that family tradition. However, my brother and I tried to stay sober and keep everyone inside the house and if you were too drunk you had to spend the night. No regrets except the occasional hangover.

Alcohol is part of our family's history so all the kids in my family had their first bender at an early age as a rite of passage. I just got drunk one time to see what it was like, other than that I was never a heavy drinker, but beer or wine as a teen was tolerated by my parents. Problem is my mom drank socially when she was a teen, so she wasn't too preachy as long as we didn't get too drunk and absolutely did not get behind the wheel.

Didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't do no drugs. Figured it was an easier way to get into university w/o the distractions, and I was right, judging from what happened to my friends.

Discovered beer in freshman year.

Started drinking aroud 14-15 but I'd been given wine by my grandfather since I was like 12 or something. All my friends in HS started drinking around the same age, we had those horrible parties every saturday evening where the only goal was to get as drunk as possible. Each of us would bring one or two bottles of liquor and after a while every time a glass was empty, we'd fill with three different things at the same time. Repeat until everyone is down on the floor. Good times ! Also, probably the only time I've ever drunk gin + tequila + whisky + martini + kahlua + whatever. Foul stuff.

18, but if you are with your parents in a restaurant you can have wine if you are 16, I think.

Or beer or cider - but I think it's limited to one unit or something? The law is a mess as any licensee can add their own rules, hence places where you can't drink until you're 21 (or more I have heard). In your own home you can drink (with parental consent) from the age of 5 I think.

I probably drank from about 10. There was a lot of alcohol at our house and even more at my parents freinds houses. When I was in secondary school I drank fairly often from about 13/14. But never to excess, just a glass here and there. Didn't get drunk until I was 16. Never got high at school either. At least I don't remember.

Never. I was a total bore fest. A lot had to do with my fear of losing control. I saw lots of people drinking and also smoking weed around me, my parents especially, so maybe that contributed to my fear of losing control? I rectified that in my twenties. Thing is, I am lucky in a way, I am not that interested in drugs/alcohol.

What a bunch of teetotalers you are! Will no one admit to being a big stinking drunk as a teenager? I have two recovered alcoholics in my family, both of whom survived. Of course it is no fun living with someone who has a drinking problem. I do know that people who once had drinking problems have difficulty being truthful about later.

Oh my gran is pretty honest about it. Well, about the child abuse. The drinking? I never asked. Don't care, really, as that wasn't the problem but her stinking personality. hah.

(xpost) "as a teenager" yes, but 18-19

There were a lot of non-drinkers or rarely-ever drinkers among my housemates in college. It was a good thing when it came to the sanctity of one's groceries or the general cleanliness of the communal bathrooms. However, it was often disastrous when they volunteered to buy booze for house parties. Most of the drinkers in the house were total brand snobs. One weekend another housemate and I, for the greater good, drank the bottle of Ten High Whiskey some non-drinker had bought, but no one else was desperate enough to consume.

I was like a living After School Special or a Very Special Episode of Facts of Life (without the boarding school) and didn't really dry out until my late 20s.

(I have to rep for the drug- and liquor-addled band geeks and honor students though - you haven't lived until you try to march a field show stoned as a motherfucker, or enjoyed the bacchanalia that is Model UN.)

Nope, didnt touch anything in high school, I was a tightass wannabe christian girlie. Drank a bit on the very last day of yr 12 at a farewell breakfast BBQ (port, out of a cask, wtf) and remember thinking "my bottom lip's gone numb.. does this mean I'm drunk?" but that was it.

Dabbled in bum-suck smoking and a little gin n tonic for the next year or so. Then spent 2 years dating and living with a raving alcoholic. Tried to keep up with him, couldnt possibly, and it put me off the whole thing for quite a few years after that.

Pity that didn't stick :/

Started drinking at parties and such when I was a junior in HS, so age 15-16. Like a lot of kids in Northeast Ohio, my earliest drinking experiences were often centered around this vile swill:

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Never smoked, never tried pot (or any other drugs), so yeah, pretty pedestrian stuff here.

Bah, picture should be this:

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I'm sure a good bunch of ILXors probably were poster children for sobriety as teenagers; in a school where you've been bullied it makes sense to keep your wits about you. In my case, I rejected song lyrics that went on about 'losing control' as pretty crap as a matter of course when I was 14. Somehow it was different when I discovered Joy Division.

I'm not sure where bullied = sobriety comes from - I was bullied as much as the next boarding school kid and I drank like a fish when I was a teenager. I didn't find being sober made having your head stuck in a toilet any more pleasant tbh.

"when I was a teenager" probably redundant in that post

I sadly can't blame it on bullying, I was just boring.

i didnt really get bullied in high school tho i wasnt very popular either; i was sober a) cause i was a scared little pussy and b) cause i was really into minor threat & co

The girls who griefed me worst in school were all a bit Congratulations On Your Teen Pregnancy so once they dropped out my life became much less fraught.

IM AS STRAIGHT AS THE LINE THAT YOU SNORT UP YOUR NOSE
IM AS HARD AS THE BOOZE THAT YOU SWILL DOWN YOUR THROAT
IM AS BAD AS THE SHIT YOU BREATHE INTO YOUR LUNGS
AND ILL FUCK YOU UP AS FAST AS THE PILLS ON YOUR TONGUE

Wow, you were really angry in high school huh?

lol sxe

We don't really have that in the UK. I love lots of the music tho. Minor Threat/7 Seconds/Youth Of Today all that stuff is great

xpost

I hated straight edge stuff; I just didn't want to be in a situation where cops could walk into a room and zero in on me as the obvious instigator due to being the only black person in the room. Had I gone to a predominantly-black high school (or a high school where there were more than 5 black students in the entire student body), things might have been different.

I hung out with the computer nerd / general geek crowd in hs (which was like, me, two computer geeks, and the deaf kid--oddball in a tiny rural town syndrome) so we never went out and drank or anything. I stole maybe 4 beers from my parents when I was 14 or 15, got horribly sick (I don't react well to...most substances), and could hardly gag the stuff down until I was, I dunno, 22 or 23? I was "straight edge", through no moral convictions (people said, "you're straight edge", and I said, "oh"), during/around my brief college stint.

nb I wasn't really picked on

lol i wasnt really that angry, in all honesty i listened to hardcore because i was too scared to drink, not the other way around

And yet I love listening to hardcore when I'm drunk!

I loathed straight edge ("hippies with haircuts") because it seemed principled but strangely artless and no-fun from my POV, but my local music scene was more interesting than derivative flannel shirt bands playing all ages shows.

i dont think i new a single sxe kid in hs. also may not have known anyone that listened to minor threat either tbh

Small towns are so different. We had neither straight edge nor hippies nor hardcore nor shows. Some people might have driven across the state to Kalamazoo or Detroit-area to do stuff, but only if their parents would've let them. People drank in the woods, on the beach, around campfires, in their friends' basements...but not I, said the cat.

Smoked cigarettes throughout high school, and smoked pot a few times at the end of senior year. Didn't drink until Freshman year of college, which was the sole year of my life when I got drunk on like jello shots and goldschlager and shit. Gave up weed by the end of the year, and I've only smoked it once since (which was a disaster). Sophomore year I actually lived in "substance free" housing, and so didn't drink or anything. Once I turned 21 I started drinking like a normal person.

Oh, the smoking cigarettes continued until a couple of years after college, when I gave it up. Have since at various times smoked socially, etc.

And yet I love listening to hardcore when I'm drunk!

How ironic. ;-)

I don't think anyone smoked pot in high school. /naive mode.

I didn't have a drink of alcohol till college

I didn't do any other drugs apart from pot in high school. Some kids were doing E & speed but I didn't get into any of that til I was 20ish

Started smoking cigarettes the summer before 9th grade, because a girl I had a crush on did.

The next year, went to see Dazed and Confused with my girlfriend. Afterward, she said that the movie made her want to smoke pot. I was horrified. Started toking two weeks later.

Dropped my first hit of acid at a Steely Dan concert that summer, but it was of severely low potency.

Drank my first 8 beers that summer too: Icehouse provided by an extremely sketchy 30-something guy on the Ocean City boardwalk.

Didn't drink much throughout high school though, mostly because I felt it would be hard to hide alcohol breath from the parents (whereas I tripped my way through many a family dinner).

Heh. I wonder if a "Things We Did While on Acid" thread would be amusing or horrifying. Being drunk or high at a family dinner was a piece of cake because I blended in, but I don't think I could have handled it on acid. I did go to a staff meeting tripping once, though.

Also you went to a Steely Dan concert when in 1994 when you were in tenth grade?

Bloody hell I couldn't go to anything where I had to resemble normalcy on acid, no way.

The stupidest straight edger in Mpls tattooed VGUN on his knuckles and I remember suggesting VGNA for the other hand.

lol i told everyone in high school that i was going to get a "poison free tattoo" & am still reminded about it, constantly, by my friends

lol i know at least three ppl that have those and are pretty far from poison free at this point.

The stupidest straight edger in Mpls

j0hn d, suzy has a song title 4u

I did go to a staff meeting tripping once, though.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, July 10, 2009 4:16 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my hero

glad that i placed the final quotation mark outside of tattoo, i think it makes my post funnier

LOL

Also you went to a Steely Dan concert when in 1994 when you were in tenth grade?

Yes. At my school, the hippies (of which I was one, when not a ska-punker) tagged along everywhere the jazz combo kids went.

I remember seeing the first guy tripping at some concert. This was after I graduated. Well, the concert was over. He was merely stagediving on his friend (the only one in the "audience")... until his friend stepped aside. That sort of put me off of drugs. hahaha (When I was a tween, I also saw a family friend having a seizure/delirium so taht put me off alcohol.)

i didn't do hard drugs until i was in my 20s because when i was 13 or 14 i had an older friend who did Es every day one summer and got serious depression and blackouts for about a year after. One of his blackouts happened when he was at university, he had no recollection of the whole day and looked in his bag and had pages full of notes from lectures he couldn't remember attending 0_0

Actually now that I remember, two classmates were so drunk on jenever in our last year of high school. It was sorta funny seeing them cope with a lecture on Shakespeare.

J0hn should just call the song VGUN. Actually, that guy was not the stupidest punk in Mpls in the '80s. The winner was the superfan who came to the counter of the record shop with one word on his lips, which was "BUTTHOLE!" He never said anything else.

The second half of my high school career was consumed with the identification of nearby poseurs, as part of a zing crew. We made up a band called The Dilettantes to basically grab low-hanging fruit who would believe the band was real. We also did ironic screaming Beatles fan impressions at the record store if Tommy Stinson showed up to hang out. These were all the things we did instead of drugs.

I smoked weed before I ever got drunk, but only once or twice. Started drinking a little when I was a senior, when we'd drink glass quart bottles of Busch in the parking lot of a Christian men's organization on the edge of campus. We'd go to cheap movies at the university and raise hell and be dumbasses. I never really drank in college but I was a colossal stoner, and not in a good way. I drank way more after moving back to my hometown where my wife was in grad school, but never problematically, and I don't drink anywhere near as much now.

Small towns are so different. We had neither straight edge nor hippies nor hardcore nor shows.

We didn't when I was in HS, but soon after when I was in college in town there started to be both. My future brother-in-law was all vegan straightedge for a while with a bunch of his friends and played in lots of bands, but he isn't any more.

ILL FUCK YOU UP AS FAST AS THE PILLS ON YOUR TONGUE

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, 10 July 2009 14:19 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This lyric has always bothered me because it is essentially saying "I'll probably take between 30 and 60 minutes to fuck you up" which is not that threatening or impressive

"ill fuck you up faster if you stick me up your ass"

Also, my wife would also rep for the wasted honor students and band kids - not so much her but all her nerdy smart friends in their unbelievably tiny high school did tons of crazy drugs, way more than any of the "burnout" kids who just drank Mad Dog and shit.

My senior year of high school, most of our football got busted for dropping acid; IIRC they used to do it right before games. (I still can't believe they managed to win a game that season.)

my group of friends in HS was very high-achieving but also heavy-drinking and probably druggier than other social groups: we were the 'metal kids' i guess, so we'd been drinking at gigs since about age 14 (I can't remember being ID'd in any venue, which sort of... boggles the mind) and got into weed/skunk/etc a bit earlier than the 'popular kids', and thence various other drugs. I sort of suspect, looking back, that the school left us alone because we were good academically - we used to smoke up the hill from the school but somehow it was always a different group that got busted (mind you, they barely bothered going round the corner).

My sister was barred from her prom due to drunkage, also at that blootered moment she protested, loudly, about how unfair it would be to let in her coked-up peers just because the aides didn't have a cokealizer.

haha!

My senior year of high school, most of our football got busted for dropping acid; IIRC they used to do it right before games. (I still can't believe they managed to win a game that season.)

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Friday, July 10, 2009 4:05 PM (16 minutes ago)

see now i regret quitting football after junior year

im shocked to hear that max was pseudo-sxe in hs

omg acid football o_O

of the 2 straight edge dudes in our HS 1 is a inveterate drunk and the other became a semi-famous racist skin and then shot himself.

Didn't try alcohol until I turned 21. That night, someone shoved a beer in my hand. I took one sip and pawned it off on somebody else. Since then, I've tried other kinds of alcohol and been able to tolerate some of them, but at 28, I still don't understand the appeal. (Why order rum and Coke when regular Coke tastes better/is cheaper? My boyfriend, the sober alcoholic, finds this logic hilarious.) Probably not surprising that I have no drug experiences to speak of.

:)

thinking this thread is not getting linked to on the HSTNGS chamber of commerce site any time soon. xxpost

im going to start calling those straightedgeposts

Sometimes I wish that I had drank in HS because I think if I'd had more experience being around alcohol/drugs then I wouldn't have gone quite as nuts as I did my first year in college. Being only 17, away from strict parents for the first time and thrust into a big time party environment was not really a good experience for me in retrospect.

im going to start calling those straightedgeposts

lol

It is just possible that my sister invented the term drink'n'dial in HS (first person I heard use it and I <3 neologisms) and anecdotes like the one above suggest how likely this prospect is.

Yesterday lurking on some Kos thread I saw a HSTNGS pile-up but it was a parallel world HSTNGS where they were sending in reinforcements to help a dude out who'd moved to MN to sink Michele Bachmann.

link plz

To go along with the acid football, the year before our women's volleyball time was heavy favorite to win the state tournament but all of the starters were elected to the (homecoming or snow court? now I can't remember what season this was) and got so ridiculously drunk and abusive that they ruined their limo and the the company reported them to the school, resulting in all but two of them getting suspended. The ones who got suspended then ganged up on the two who didn't and accused them of drinking as well, when the "drinking" they did was tasting someone's drink and going "ugh", so the school ended up suspending them as well as part of a stupid "zero tolerance"/"placating bad parents" policy.

The best quote was from the guy who got hit by the lynch mob, a regular churchgoer who said, "I am given more alcohol when I take Communion than I had that night."

xSepost: wait, waht

Man, attending your high school reunion must have been awesome.

There are quite a few shoutouts in this thread: HSTNGS

Dan, please google Hastings MN kos and tell me what entry one is.

it was the best party in a suburban holiday inn conference room that i have ever attended xpost

I erred slightly, there was a Bachmann thread w/no HSTNGS and a hysterical thread that brought the HSTNGS.

Seriously, Dan, google it.

I am trying to but apparently I can't open that link!

link is to a kos thread, works fine here, and google hit one for "hastings mn kos" is a site called HASTINGS DOGGING.

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,110 for hastings drunk asshole. (0.44 seconds)

just sayin

Sometimes I wish that I had drank in HS because I think if I'd had more experience being around alcohol/drugs then I wouldn't have gone quite as nuts as I did my first year in college. Being only 17, away from strict parents for the first time and thrust into a big time party environment was not really a good experience for me in retrospect.

the most massive of massive xposts. All kidding aside, you cannot thrust a naive child into a world where booze, sex and drugs are INSTANTLY available at all times of the day, and not have properly prepared them for it. My dad's fear and intolerance of fucking up model of parenting was not the best for this.

Our relationship is quite good now, but man - I needed some information! I needed some guidance!!! Help an offspring OUT!!!!

Alright, well maybe sex wasn't instantly available at all times of the day, but compared to where I was coming from? Shit was like Seven Eleven with a drive through...for sex.

I see the HASTINGS DOGGING site but I can't access it to see what it actually is.

Hit #1 for "drunk hastings mn asshole": http://www.myspace.com/bamf1012

BLAM - Yeah, I mean I had gone to an all-girls Catholic HS for god's sake!! By the time I left for college I'd had my first serious boyfriend but still . . . I was not prepared AT ALL for the combination of 24/7 alcohol/drugs/boys etc. It was completely overwhelming and terrifying. I guess I could have dealt with it by staying in or abstaining etc. but I didn't. I mean it all turned out OK but I look back at some of the shit I did/situations I put myself in and it's pretty amazing that nothing really seriously bad ever happened to me especially since I was so naive and really trusting of people that I shouldn't have been.

I dealt with this by approaching every situation I put myself into with a "how I get-the-fuck-out if something bad happens" plan; if I couldn't come up with one, I didn't do it.

I <3 drinking

oh hey to give us a home for the insanity of MN youth (and to keep from clogging up this thread with all the shit ive been tempted to link to, no matter how appropriate it is given the thread title) i made this: Exploring the idiot youth of rural minnesota (some HSTNGS content, but not a HSTNGS thread)

Dan with that course of action in mind you were a lot smarter than I was at that point. Even if I had done that, by the time something bad had happened I would probably have been way too fucked up follow through with any sort of plan. I was pretty much drunk and/or high nearly every night my first two years in college. I have no idea how I managed to still get pretty good grades.

I actually think about this a lot. I wonder how I will deal with this with my own kids (assuming I have them someday) and try to prepare them for the "real world" while still maintaining parental boundaries and rules etc.

this thread's a good first step

I think I am the only person I know who waited until age 21 to drink.

I did all my acid in grade 8 / That was the old days when acid had names / Flavors as it were / Windowpane, orange sunshine / But then things shifted / Acid stopped having names / And chips became flavored / That's progress? / I can remember a time when you could get orange sunshine, windowpane, or purple microdot / But the only chips you could get were plain / or in some stores / Rippled.

Cut to the chase / I did all my acid in grade 8 / I gobbled it right quick / I couldn't get enough of it / I did all my southern comfort in grade 9 / One bottle / Ooo, what a night / This is how Janis died? / What a sickly way to go / And kinda sweet, too, ya know?

Cut to the chase / I did all my acid in grade 8 / I did all my hash in grade 7 / Thought I was gonna say 10 didn't 'ya? Uh uh / The thing I hate about hash / Apart from the revolting taste / Was the way it made your eyes stare inside your tiny little body / Just sittin' there listenin' to Uriah Heep / A little of that goes a long way / Same as acid I guess you could say.

Cut to the chase / I did all my acid in grade 8 / It mighta got low for me / But I never did eat no vegetarian chili / It mighta got low for me / But I never did consume the Eastern philosophies / Which I used to think, you know, was Eastern Canada / Fisherman's philosophies / As in, "Ah, you'll see."

Cut to the chase / I loved all my love in High School / I gave all my love to those three separate, cruel, cool queens / Shelly Warwick / Susan Moriarty / Tammy Gorgenchuck / And now I walk around in a hashless, acidless, un-southern comfortable haze / And as I do / I think about my income tax / Hmmmm...

xp Um. I almost did -- at age 20 I went to Greece for a month, where the hotels bars would serve us students. Pretty sure I had my first cocktail ever in a Thessaloniki hotel bar, and it was a whiskey sour.

but I look back at some of the shit I did/situations I put myself in and it's pretty amazing that nothing really seriously bad ever happened to me especially since I was so naive and really trusting of people that I shouldn't have been.

Being a substance enthusiast all through high school didn't inoculate me from this tendency in the least. I had a longer post written out but then I realized the my ultimate conclusion was that it is best to be neither a teetotaler nor a ridiculous drunkard, but to find what one might call a "middle road" or "golden mean," which, you know, duh.

not really, I started the year after

Jenny, I wouldn't even say it's a "tend to the mean" issue; it's more of a "think through the consequences and decide if you can live with them" thing. I have no doubt that, despite my relatively sheltered experiences, I could have thrown myself hardcore into full-on drug/sex bacchanalia; my social circle has always been like one degree of separation away from that. I just asked myself "If I do that and things go wrong, can I live with that?" Invariably, the answer was "uhhh... NO" so I just didn't go there; I knew what I was comfortable with and what I could recover from and (more importantly) the amount of trouble I was likely to get into for the various things I did and made sure I wasn't doing anything whose consequences were above and beyond what I was willing to take on. That may end up taking you to a "tending towards the mean" result but I feel the process is much different; had I ever been busted for underage drinking, I wouldn't have been too shattered by it because that was risk I was willing to take on. I absolutely was NOT willing to take on the risk of getting busted with or getting addicted to cocaine, so I never even tried to seek it out.

(I mean, the main reason I didn't drink that much in high school wasn't because I didn't WANT to; it was because the majority of the kids around me did incredibly horrifying, dangerous stuff when drunk and I didn't want to die! College was a totally different game, esp. since no one was driving anywhere.)

You know, I just never considered the consequences of getting busted, because I never thought I would (lol privilege) and then I never did (lol privilege). I didn't start contemplating the potential addiction consequences until people I knew actually started suffering said consequences, and by then being Crazy Party Girl was such an inherent part of my identity I didn't know how to be any other way.

Gross, that is really confessional sounding. What I mean to say is, Dan, I hear you and what you are saying makes sense to me.

Yeah Jenny I agree entirely with what you said but I think that being so sheltered as a teen made it a harder and much longer process for me to find that middle ground if that makes any sense.

I had two older brothers who were busted by my parents with pot, which was pretty traumatic to 7-year-old me considering that up to that point we were like The Cosby Show on steroids. The entire bugbear of consequences was firmly stamped into my brain after that. (Also, I went through a really bad shoplifting phase around age 7 that culminated in me getting shamed to death by my mother and a shopkeeper in the local drugstore in front of all of the customers there, which now that I think about it probably did more to scare the idea of "CONSEQUENCES" into my head than anything else.)

mean it all turned out OK but I look back at some of the shit I did/situations I put myself in and it's pretty amazing that nothing really seriously bad ever happened to me especially since I was so naive and really trusting of people that I shouldn't have been.

Holy crap, yes. Thank God I'm a 6ft+ guy, or I wouldn't have been able to get out of some of the shit that I did.

The Cosby Show on steroids

Trying to imagine Cliff Huxtable acting like Glenn Danzig here...

Ask John; that is kind of a scarily accurate depiction of how my father behaved. (Not that my dad is hugely muscled or anything, but he did have what could generously be called a "temper".)

Thank God I'm a 6ft+ guy, or I wouldn't have been able to get out of some of the shit that I did.

See, since I'm a 5'7" guy I had to think long and hard about the situations I was willing to be put into!

never did, still haven't

Holy crap, yes. Thank God I'm a 6ft+ guy, or I wouldn't have been able to get out of some of the shit that I did.

Yeah, I'm 5'10" but a woman which comes with a whole other set of bad situations that I probably could have avoided had I been in a clearer frame of mind. Let's just say that the person I despise most in this world later got kicked out of school for date raping three women.

I'm 5'10" but a woman which comes with a whole other set of bad situations

quietly and solemnly OTMing over here

See, shit like this just makes me mad that lollege can contain such shitty things for people.

Yeah, some of it was pretty damn shitty. In the end though I learned a lot and wised up (at least a little bit) and DEFINITELY learned not to trust people so blindly.

I drank, smoked pot, and dabbled w/inhalants all through high school. Guess I was hanging out with the wrong crowd.

I never wrote poetry in high school

I did not drink or do any drugs in high school. That all came later.

I never wrote poetry in high school

Verrrrry dangerous, especially when inspired by Jim Morrison and Ian Curtis.

so in high school my friends and i just associated drinking/drugs with the kids we liked the least--the cockiest well-off suburban jocks (this is a product of going to a suburban catholic school i supposed). it turned into this kind of anti-substance groupthink after a while. of course we all went off to college and started drinking separately. it was funny, i remember hanging out the summer after freshman year and slowly coming to that realization (i think we were all scared we were breaking some kind of unspoken pledge).

so as a result we all got our partying out a bit later in life (one or two of my friends are still getting their partying out i think).

i didn't get into regular drinking until junior year of college really and didn't get high until sometime sophomore year. found out that alcohol is def my intoxicant, contentedly never have wanted to try anything else.

<3 drinking. i'm drinking right now. mint and lime and <3.

Never drank/did drugs with high school folks until I was out of high school - I only really developed an active social life then. I stayed pretty moderate with the drugs/drinking even in college, maybe because the first time I drank with friends I ended up staying with a friend while she vomited into a bucket for an hour or two.

i was just thinking about the fact that i had a routine i would do at lunch my senior year where someone would give me one of their grape juices (with the aluminum foil lid) if i pretended to chug it like alcohol. so i would stand up in the middle of the cafeteria while everyone chanted "chug, chug, chug" and pretend like i was sniffing it and making that 'wow this is strong face' maybe act a little hesitant and then down it, spill some down my face and stumble around like i was shitfaced. lots of laughs. mind you that all of the assistant principals and other authority figures are witnessing all of this and doing nothing but chuckling to themselves. then i would walk to the cafeteria bathroom right across from the principals office and smoke a cigarette. my parents actually moved to this suburban atlanta neighborhood for the schools

anyway, i still have a fucked up relationship with alcohol and cigarettes thanks high school

that's some Bobby Hill shit