I have never been drunk in my life, is this unusual?

As in had I not done them I wouldn't have learnt and become wiser.

Callistemon

^Remember JaneJudge, the first couple of glasses of wine are to make us relax, and the rest are to improve our stunning dance moves.^

Nota Bene everyone: Do be careful what you post on Gransnet after a glass or three!
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oh dear!

When I was a student we went on a trip to the Lake District finishing up with a party in a barn on the last night. I found myself with a bottle of red wine that needed drinking. When I had finished it I went off to bed and slept VERY soundly.

When DD graduated we spent a very long morning watching all the presentations. Then we went to find the buffet. On the way I was handed several glasses of champagne! As long as you don't look too closely at the photographs you'd never notice that DH is propping me up!

I used to enjoy drinking - until I drank too much at my daughter's headmistress's house. Went to the bathroom, was sick, and used her flannel to clean it up .... never drank again.

GrannyGravy you sound just like me re: champers. I love red and white wine equally (but I’m very particular as to what I like). I’m afraid my tolerance is such that drinking never makes me feel ill but I do sometimes have hangovers the following day.

no, never have.
i have not drunk alcohol since i was 16; just before xmas i decided to see how long i could go without drinking alcohol.
the experiment is still in progress.
and i now realise that it is one of the few things in my life that i have no regrets about.

Many,many times but not in the last 10 years or so. When I was at uni every Friday night and Saturday night it was just the norm. I only passed out once on my 21st and didn't like the hangover so after that I was a bit more careful to just get merry drunk and not stupid drunk. I never took drugs, I always felt you could control alcohol and knew what you were getting, unlike drugs.

I have to say that it is very interesting as a teetotaller, to watch others who ‘only have one or two to relax’.

Never drugs and only got badly drunk once, after that just a couple of drinks, now just one glass, I’m happy to watch others make fools of themselves these days.

When I was about 19 a friend and I won bottles of vodka. I drank mine and then realised I was very drunk. Luckily I had the sense to crawl back to my room and lock the door so that none of the boys would come in. I slept on the floor and never got that drunk again.

Have never really liked the taste of alcohol, so I am also one who has never been drunk. As teenager, I would watch (with total disbelief and distaste) as friends would become so sick and out of control at parties. Sure, I had a much better time than they did - and no after effects!!

Discovered that I can enjoy a mix of a small amount of wine with a large amount of lemonade and that sees me through dinner parties and formal occasions.

However, many years back, on a very hot summer day I was invited to attend the VIP lunch at London Youth Games. As I arrived some lovely waitresses were going around with tall glasses of a very refreshing drink, and as soon as I finished mine they were filling the glass up from the jugs they carried.

Enjoyed those and my meal and afterwards went back to where one of my adult children was waiting for me, said I had a good time, told her about those lovely refreshing drinks, and promptly fell asleep on her shoulder. Woke up feeling absolutely fine to her and my other children's laughter and them explaining to me about Pimms.

More than one too many Kadinsky, but not for six years. I quite often drink shandy now when out, particularly in the summer.
Do you remember the alleged ‘European wine lake’ years ago? I was helping dispose of that!

Have only ever got merry,never got to the stage where I couldn't remember what I had done, or been sick. I feel uncomfortable around people who are clearly drunk and out of control and wouldn't want to be like that. My first husband and his brother and father used to drink a lot, often having shouting matches with each other and hardly able to stand up. Once his brother kicked a hole in the kitchen door.It was in the days before breathalysers and they also regularly drove after drinking too much. I enjoy a glass or two of red wine and the lovely relaxed feeling it gives, but won't have more.

Depends what you call drunk. Getting into a state where the next morning I can’t remember what I did, never. (thank goodness!)

Having one too many, throwing up and feeling dreadful all night, unable to sleep because of head spinning, yes, but not for an awful long time - I soon got to know when even another couple of mouthfuls would do it.

First time I was only about 14 - it was around Christmas or NY IIRC - coming home after a party I threw up in our snowy front garden. ?

My folks were amused rather than appalled - they took the attitude that it was a useful lesson.
Unfortunately it took several more years before I learned it.

Have been a bit tipsy but never really drunk. I do the nose test if I have a few drinks. If my nose has gone numb I have had enough.

Started drinking at 15, from the first drink I always got drunk, got myself in some awful situations particularly with men, how I’ve survived to be 68 I really don’t know. ?I did join AA at the age of 28 and that got me sober and have been so ever since …

watermeadow

I’ve never been drunk. I occasionally have gin or a beer but can’t bear anything acidic. Wine just tastes like vinegar.
I’m very greedy for cheese or cake but not interested in drinks.

I absolutely agree about wine tasting like vinegar no matter how expensive it is..?

The last time I was 'feeling no pain' as my husband puts it was last night. I love a gin & tonic. I never mix spirits with wine or beer. The measures here in Spain are wonderful. However every year I stop drinking during the winter. I love sitting outside a bar in the sunshine people watching. I have never smoked or taken drugs.

Not absolutely drunk but have been very tipsy on numerous occasions in my twenties, we always had a good punch at parties, and some were quite strong.
These days a glass of wine or two is usually what I fancy or a bailey's Irish cream at Christmas or birthdays.

Yes...once, at my friend’s 16th ?. Her mum made this punch. I didn’t know it had alcohol in it! It just tasted of fruit. Delicious.

After that I dabbled with Pernod ( with lots of black current), and Snowballs. I never really liked the taste of anything, and it gave me horrendous migraines. By the time I was 21....I gave up. It just made me feel ill.

I love Baileys...but still have the same problem with headaches, so it not worth it. Shame.

Only once, when I went on a pub crawl to raise money for mobile incubators for the local hospital's neo-natal unit. I would have welcomed snuffing it compared to the way I felt the next day and I thought if this is how people feel after drinking too much, then it's not for me. I never got drunk again, nor am I a drinker, disliking both spirits and beers. I can thoroughly enjoy myself on a cup of tea or a soft drink. Some people give me odd looks though when I say I don't drink.

Tipsy, very tipsy, even, but never drunk.

I loathe the feeling of being even slightly tipsy. the whoozyness, the need to put an awful lot of effort into thinking, the queaziness and headache the next day. Thanks, but no thanks.

You do not need to be paralytic, completely out of it or aggressive when you are drunk to be obnoxious. Stupid conversations, insisting black is white, walking as if it is an effort, all are part of getting drunk and are equally obnoxious.

I am not teetotal, and never have been. I enjoy a glass of really good red wine when I eat out, and a pint of shandy when it is hot, an occasional aperitif and the occasional drink of an evening. But drunkeness - yuk.

I like alcohol (or rather the effects) but it doesn’t like me.
I have drinking friends who can drink all night and be up showering and singing in the morning whilst I will have the hangover from hell and the effects could go on for nearly two days. I love the first whoosh it gives but can honestly say I wish it had never been invented.

No, never. I’m an incredible lightweight when it comes to alcohol, and it’s got worse as I get older. I absolutely hate the feeling of a swimmy head and rarely have more than one heavily-diluted G&T.
Never had a hangover and no desire to experience one! I can easily enjoy myself without having alcohol ?

Sarnia, i know what you mean about some people's attitudes.
in UK there is sometimes a prejudice against those who do not drink, esp where the population is less diverse.
i find saying, i'm not drinking at the moment, seems to be more acceptable than saying i don't drink.
perhaps it's perceived as a kind of criticism of those who do drink, so saying not at the moment sound like it is only temporary, maybe for medical reasons, so can be excused, rather than having gone over to another tribe, the non -drinkers.