I would like to know this as well? :)Originally Posted by N8GAV
I would like to know this as well? :)
The legal drinking age here in New York used to be 18 also. As a matter of fact when i graduated high school, of very soon after, I was able to buy beer, wine and liquor legally. My first alcoholic beverage that I ever bought myself was a bottle of Bombay Gin. I never bothered with beer. I think I was still 17 when I bought it because back then most stores didn't ask for proof. A few years later it was raised to 21 but I was well over 21 by then.And no, I've never been to a prom.
Last edited by n2ize; 05-20-2012 at 11:15 AM.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Glad to hear he's okay.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
+ A gabillion.
"Bacon, Beans and Limousines"
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Glad he's OK. This may be a blessing in disguise depending on your state laws. He may lose his driver's license until he's 21. In SC, underage anything will cost a driver's lic. That will keep out from behind the wheel until he's a little more mature. The other thing is that maybe this experience will wean him off drinking.
Kids want to try things just because they're there and regardless of legality there's always a way to get it.
Hopefully, this won't be the kind of thing that marks him for life in the eyes of future schools and employment.
And always, it could have been worse.
Thanks everyone.
No he didn't accept the beer.
He's now at the police station giving a statement.
He asked me what to tell them , I said the truth.
He then asked what if he couldn't remember ?
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Ummmm, no I'm not peeing in my gas tank :)
Add me to the list of those glad he's OK.
"He then asked what if he couldn't remember ?"
Kid, if you honestly can't remember you're still telling the truth, now go give your statement.
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Mike:
Don't be too hard on the kid. He's 18, and if he has a brain, (which I'm sure he does, because he's your kid) he'll get it. Besides, he'll get to go to the DUI classes and MADD lecture if Texas is anything like CA.
I firmly believe if you overreact, then it just gets worse. Your kids stop communicating, which you DON'T want. I lived through this as a kid, and I didn't do that with my daughter, who tells me everything, even if she knows I won't like it. That's where you want to be.
Does he deserve to be disciplined for being an idiot? Absolutely. But once the punishment ends, he needs a chance to redeem himself. If you do this right, it will be a teachable moment on a number of levels.
Janet.
^^^what she said^^^
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
For all the times I was stupid in my undergrad years, it only caught up to me once - and that was enough to make me not want to get in that kind of situation again. I was already of legal age and not living at home at the time, but it still was awful telling my parents how I managed to screw up.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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