Thanks Roses for your kind comment. My mum's advice works for me now too as recently I went by train to London, something I do rarely, to meet an old friend for lunch. I would have loved a second glass of wine as we were chatting happily away, but that 2nd glass (at my age) could easily have caused me to forget to pick up everything I was carrying, or accidentally trip over and yet again I felt I needed to keep my wits about me - thanks MUM.
Now to my second point. In my youth I drank, stayed out late, had some dodgy boyfriends, all the usual stuff, but nowadays SOME young people seem to have have taken it to a new level. Binge drinking is a regular occurrence together with having many sexual partners.
Everything seems to be about excess and call me a boring old f**t but I it saddens and horrifies me.