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

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