Subject: RE: I'm telling mom!
From: Sean Draine (seandr@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 18:33:56 GMT
Zazie said:
"Maybe this sounds a bit naive/untraveled, but i can help thinking that
it must be weird to live in a country where you can not get a beer at
age 16
or stand on the street drinking it during summer ....."
L. Manning replied:
"It isn't really. The drinking age here is a joke, and most everyone
treats
it like one."
Sean adds:
When I was 17, I went to a German school near Heidelberg for 3 months.
My impression from that experience is that American teenages drink far
more than their European counterparts (well, at least their German
counterparts). When I got together with the other Americans in my
exchange program, we'd invariably end up sloshed in some pub. That
wasn't something the German kids seemed to like to do. I always
attributed this to the fact that alcohol is a 'forbidden fruit' for
American kids, so naturally we are more intrigued by it.
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