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[Blackrocksrock]

A glass of wine to relax in evening with a meal or afterwards is about it and I always offer to drive if we ever go out as I am happy to not drink at all. I can be persuaded to have a brandy and ginger about twice a year - never opened my bottle last xmas at all and celebrated the new year with juice!!!!!!!! So not really much of a drinker here either.

I do stand my hand for a round though if out.

[little chickadee]

I agree that it's the people who drink to get drunk who have a problem with non-drinkers. We have some people in the family who have serious alcohol problems, so it's very uncomfortable for them with us not drinking as I think it highlights how much they are having. We don't say anything about it though and don't mind other people drinking in the house.

 

I remember someone at my omlet course saying that she doesn't drink and people expect that she will be unable to have a good time anymore or that she is somehow now boring (I can't remember who it was though!)

 

We were invited round to our neighbours house for a drink when we first moved in and you could have heard a pin drop when we asked for a soft drink

[Basset]

I've really noticed that many people find it difficult to handle being around non-drinkers. OH doesn't drink, and I can take it or leave it - which means I'll have a few glasses if I want, but often I'm driving or have things to do with my children the following morning and don't want to risk feeling hung-over.

 

My father has known my OH for over 20 years, but still badgers him constantly to have a drink everytime we meet up!! One of my close friends always comments on the fact that I don't drink much and makes a big deal of it, which I find a bit annoying. I do admire OH for his strength of character, as people are always trying to get him to have a drink, but he is always in good-humour with them.

 

Why is it that some drinkers feel the need for all their companions to join them in having a tipple - sometimes becoming really childish about it? Why do they feel uncomfortable unless everyone joins them? I don't understand that - if I'm drinking it doesn't bother me at all if others are drinking alcohol or tea or soft drinks - it makes no difference to me.

[Ziggy]

Oh what to drink as a non-drinker is a real headache!!

I love alcoholic drinks... the taste of wine, beer, rum, whatever, I really enjoy it... and it makes non-alcoholic drinks feel boring... the hardest to replace is red wine or port, as they are such warming, room-temperature drinks, there isn't a non-alcoholic equivalent at all...

 

I am always attempting to keep my alcohol intake down (for various reasons - obviously didn't drink during my four pregnancies, then for weight control, and simply for health reasons), with various degrees of success at various times, but at the moment I find I enjoy, as non alcoholic drinks, J2O, tonic water, tomato juice (though can't have more than one or two), tea (it lasts longer than a mini tonic water can), and though most alcohol free lagers taste as interesting as what I imagine liquid nylon would taste like, I do like alcohol free Becks...

 

I can't understand people who, when drinking, would try to push others to drink too... telling someone who drives that they can have 'just one', isn't right in my view, everyone has the right to decide what they drink or not, and no one should think they have a right to meddle with it if someone decides not to consume alcohol, no matter what their reasons are.

 

Has anyone else got suggestions for interesting alcohol free drinks?

[Egluntyne]

I can't understand people who, when drinking, would try to push others to drink too... telling someone who drives that they can have 'just one', isn't right in my view, everyone has the right to decide what they drink or not, and no one should think they have a right to meddle with it if someone decides not to consume alcohol, no matter what their reasons are.

I totally agree.

 

Has anyone else got suggestions for interesting alcohol free drinks?

My fave tipple is sparkling water with a big glug of lime juice cordial in it.

[Guest]

A pint of lemonade and lime with masses of ice in!

 

OK guys you made me think about forbidden fruits...

 

The one thing I missed at Xmas was a glass (or 6) of port - my cousin and I usually see off a bottle (mind you he didn't want to spend xmas with us). Still I can have one next Xmas in Florida!

 

Oh to drink something other than water - an ice cold cranberry juice (which will from now on be a TREAT - I was drinking 2 litres A DAY before lighterlife).

[Geoid]

A nice cold coke, with lemon and ice....mmmm

[missuscluck]

I just dont bother with it unless its a big night out.

I think I am what they term a 'binge drinker'

Dont drink then have a blow out and get a bit daft!!

[Lesley]

I drink very, very little - I did manage an eighth of the small bottle of Perry I shared with Kate a couple of weeks ago

 

I used to drink..... sometimes a fair amount, I've lost count of the times I was urged to have "a proper drink" - water is a proper drink to me! I'm not really bothered about finding something more interesting to drink either.....I will have sparkling water in the evening and filtered tap water during the day, and a couple of glasses of Cranberry juice, one in the morning and one at bedtime.

 

....... but now, I'm too much of a control freak to drink alcohol

[little chickadee]

My OH has a pint of blackcurrant and soda if we're out at a pub. I normally have a double tonic water. If I'm actually really thirsty I just have sparkling water though.

[Strepsy]

I don't drink. I just sort of naturally stopped after I'd given up smoking (June 2004!), I guess they went hand in hand.

 

Yes, I do find certain friends treat me like a bit of a bore because you don't want to get completely legless with them and people seem much more willing to buy me alcoholic drinks than they did when I did drink. lol.

[Louise]

I drink

 

Too much probably

 

I have no problem not drinking if I go out and I am driving and equally have no problem with people who don't drink

 

I actually find the car is good as I won't drink at all if I am driving and it is an easy way to not take alcohol

 

I do worry about people who if they go out feel they HAVE to drink alcohol and get completely legless

 

There is a girl at my work like that she will not go out at all if she is working the next day and her reason is that she doesn't think it is possible to enjoy herself without getting drunk That would worry me if I felt like that

[Gamebird]

I must admit I do enjoy a good glass of wine in the evenings but never anything during the day and never if I have to drive.

 

If I can't drink wine then I have a glass of tonic water with ice and lemon and then people think you're drinking a G&T.

[Ana's flock]

Water is nice and good for you - I drink it often, from the tap, cheap too.

 

I do enjoy one or two glasses of wine with a meal now and then.

 

Hot summer day, a cold lager, OR a Martini Bianco, (lovely and low in calories).

 

Cold winter day, stilton and port.

 

Can't stand spirits (perhaps a few drops in a nice natural fruit mix). Can't drink tea nor coffee anymore as I'm caffeine intolerant.

 

I drink for pleasure. Don't see the point in 'getting blotto', suffering hangovers, being sick, losing control and making a fool of myself.

 

I don't have a problem with non-drinkers, I think as long as we all have a sense of humour, there's clever conversation and we have fun, alcohol is not a requirement.

 

I don't like it when people get drunk and abusive, that i do find pretty disgusting.

 

I guess, like in all things it's a matter of moderation and knowing oneself, what we can tolerate, and what we enjoy. I don't think anybody enjoys a pounding headache and a sand-paper mouth! (and I speak by experience from long time ago... )

[chickencam]

I enjoy a drink, but like to think that I am old enough to stop before the hangover stage.

 

We had a night out at Christmas and had a fair bit to drink but then balanced it with plenty of water before bed, family life with a hangover is not good.

 

If I am driving I will drink tonic water with ice and lime, I don't like coke and lemonade they are too sweet and alcohol free larger is

 

In the summer I love a good real ale and in the winter a warm red wine in the evening.

 

Drinking to get drunk is a strange concept, I drink for the enjoyment and relaxation of it. My parents are both tee total and I went a bit mad a couple of times as a result in my teens, but nothing like a lot of people do now, it really was only a couple of times and the following day was a valuable lesson, do some people just have short memories because a severe hangover is awful.

[Guest]

I'm certainly not "tee total"!

 

But that said I don't drink often either so I'm hopefully not an alcoholic.

 

When I was younger I used to be a very heavy binge drinker. Nothing all week, then 50+ drinks over a Friday and Saturday night in a club atmosphere, dancing the night away...

 

Then I turned 18 and it became a bit repetitive and I calculated the money wasted over the years - very scary indeed! So I started planning for the future (saving etc)...

 

I don't need alcohol to have a good time and I usually ended up being the designated driver when applicable, as I had just as much of a good time and a boogie on the dance floor without it.

 

I couldn’t care less if people were, tee total, raging alcoholics, binge drinkers, or just relaxing social drinkers. Everyone is an individual and should be entitled to relax how they want, as long as they are acting responsibly and not having a negative impact on others around them.

 

When i'm out, my tipple of choice now is usually tap water because it's free. When I'm home, I mainly drink water and pure fruit juices. When I was younger I used to mix my drinks as too much of the same drink made me feel sick, but mixing from a beer, to wine, to spirits to alcopops seemed to avoid that and hangovers!

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I rarely drink as I have very little tolerance.........two glasses of wine and I'm decidedly tipsy. I enjoy the occasional Pimms and lemonade but thats about it. We stopped having alcohol in the house as the OH started drinking too much too regularly (he suffers from depression ) so we decided enough was enough and that we would both stop drinking for the sake of his health.

 

My colleagues think I'm wierd 'cause I don't really drink but they have gradually got used to my little eccentricities and have had to accept it.

[Rhapsody]

I like a drink, I buy good wine and savour it, also like a cold beer on a hot sunny day and cocktails with a barbie in the summer. If folk dont wanna drink I really dont give a damn but I also really dont wanna hear about it. My MIL is in AA and drives me round the pipe fussing about red wine in the cooking and white wine/cider viegar in the salad dressing

[Laura & CTB]

I like a drink, I buy good wine and savour it, also like a cold beer on a hot sunny day and cocktails with a barbie in the summer.

 

Ditto here and on a chilly winter's evening a small glass of expensive brandy!

 

Oh and dont forget the champagne - any time and no excuse necessary

[Cinnamon]

I love a glass of icey cold dry Rose when I sit in the garden at the end of a hot summers day.

 

I also love a nice juicy glass of red in front of the log burner when its cold out.

 

Of course I like a glass of fairly decent plonk whatever the weather

[One Man Banned]

I'll freely admit to liking a drink, and have a glass of wine most evenings, although of late I've not bothered - it's not a case that I HAVE to have a drink each night.

 

I can't understand people who go out for a night just to get drunk. If I end up tipsy it's as the evening went well, but I always know what I get up to when drinking, (including giving out my phone number to certain waiter recently ) but I'm just as happy having a J20 and driving for the night.

 

I can cope with bars and pubs without a drink but if nightclubbing I do need a couple to help me "get into the mood" as I'm terrifically self concious in clubs, but I hardly go maybe 5 or 6 times a year!

 

It doesn't bother me if people don't drink around me if we're having a drink and I would never dream of spiking someone's drink, that's so wrong.

 

We all make our choices in this life, and sometimes they aren't to everyone opinion, if someone's happy, that's all that matters, with or wi'out booze

 

A

xx

[Laura007]

i used to work with a guy who just could not understand, grasp the point or just get, I DONT LIKE THE TASTE. what is there not to understand i asked him in endless conversations when he would question why i didnt have an alcoholic beverage in front of me if i went out. suprisingly someone who would pour more than enough alcohol down her neck would join in the conversation and back me up. if you dont like sprouts you dont tend to eat them, do you?

 

i am not in the slightest bit bothered by people who enjoy a drink, but it really does hack me off when you get seen to be the odd bod just cos you are sober.