Once in college when I was sick....
May. 12th, 2004 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johno***Yet another random life story***
As a freshman in college I was puttering through the local convenience/liquor shop. Gathering ginger ale, honey, and lemon juice. Hacking my lungs up and sneezing my brains out, while I shopped.
When I got the counter, the old man running the place added a pint flask of whiskey to the pile.
"I know what you're making, you'll need this too."
I looked at him in amazement, because he had a rep for being hard core about selling alcohol to underage folks.
"It's medicinal. You don't want to drink this stuff for real"
After I was well, I tried it straight and boy was he right. It was some of the worst whiskey I've ever had.
As a freshman in college I was puttering through the local convenience/liquor shop. Gathering ginger ale, honey, and lemon juice. Hacking my lungs up and sneezing my brains out, while I shopped.
When I got the counter, the old man running the place added a pint flask of whiskey to the pile.
"I know what you're making, you'll need this too."
I looked at him in amazement, because he had a rep for being hard core about selling alcohol to underage folks.
"It's medicinal. You don't want to drink this stuff for real"
After I was well, I tried it straight and boy was he right. It was some of the worst whiskey I've ever had.
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What was the drinking age then?
Date: 2004-05-12 12:49 am (UTC)So were you not legal to drink, as a college student?
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P.S.: What do you call that concoction?
Re: What was the drinking age then?
Date: 2004-05-12 01:14 am (UTC)I was caught in the drinking age bind.
Just before I turned 18, MI raised the legal age to 19.
Just before I turned 19, the US raised the legal age to 21.
I started college in 1979, at 17. I turned 18 at the end of my first month at school.
Re: What was the drinking age then?
Date: 2004-05-12 05:52 am (UTC)The MA drinking age went to 21 at the end of '82 or early '83. MA stayed out of synch with the rest of the US until it buckled under some pressure....