Subject: RE: I'm telling mom!
From: L. Manning Vines (lmanningvines@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 17:57:44 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 .....
Or isn't it as 'bad' as this in the states? >>
It isn't really. The drinking age here is a joke, and most everyone treats
it like one. Most everyone I know drank, at least occasionally, shortly
after getting into high school (fourteen or fifteen years old) and drinking
is a totally ordinary experience by eighteen, especially if you go to
college. I suppose some of the really good kids, the ones who would report
people for smoking in the bathrooms, might not have been drinking in high
school, but even they start drinking in college.
There are often bars or liquor stores that don't card (but sometimes charge
extra), and when there aren't, most everyone knows 21-year-olds who will buy
for them, or someone with an ID saying they are 21-year-olds who will buy
for them. You don't even need a fake ID since nobody looks at the picture,
anyway, just the birth date; if you have an expired ID an older sibling had
it will work every time, guaranteed.
And open container laws do usually prevent you from drinking in the street,
but some places (New Orleans) don't have such laws, other places often waive
them for certain events, and you can generally assume that they don't apply
on college campuses (even when they do).
-robbie
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