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MnD

146 posts since
Jan 21, 2005

Nov 19, 2007 4:42 PM

Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

18? 21?
Hopefully our neighbors have figured this out for their now 19 year old daughter. Last year Dad was pouring her a glass of wine and 5 minutes later Mom was scolding her and taking it away.

BonitaApplebum

382 posts since
Aug 14, 2007

1. Nov 19, 2007 4:48 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

We only have one family member anywhere in the range... 22yo niece. Before she was of age she got to have one glass of wine with dinner.

Back in the day my folks let me knock a couple back. I don't think they ever caught on to the fact that my brother and I usually smoked a bowl in dad's workshop a few minutes before we all said grace...

:: Bonita

sophielarue

56 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

2. Nov 19, 2007 4:50 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

I remember having a glass of wine with my Thanksgiving dinner when I was a Jr or Sr in high school. No biggie.

wyrillco

347 posts since
Oct 3, 2007

3. Nov 19, 2007 4:51 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

Ha, Bonita! That's funny!

BonitaApplebum

382 posts since
Aug 14, 2007

4. Nov 19, 2007 4:53 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

quote:<HR>Originally posted by wyrillco:
Ha, Bonita! That's funny!<HR>

We certainly thought so at the time. Nothing like a mad giggling fit over the brussells sprouts...

:: Bonita

Endure

65 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

5. Nov 19, 2007 5:20 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

quote:<HR>Originally posted by BonitaApplebum:
I don't think they ever caught on to the fact that my brother and I usually smoked a bowl in dad's workshop a few minutes before we all said grace...<HR>

I think mine caught on.

This post made me crack up. Ah, the holidays.

bigapplepie

2,636 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

6. Nov 19, 2007 5:23 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

My nieces generally started to drink at family occasions at 5 or 6. By 11 or 12 they could have a glass of wine.

770

320 posts since
Jul 22, 2006

7. Nov 19, 2007 5:29 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

I've never seen any family members under 21 having anything alcoholic (beer, wine, mudslides, etc) to drink. But that doesn't mean they didn't find a way around it.

filetmerlot

35 posts since
Mar 24, 2005

8. Nov 19, 2007 5:37 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

the funny thing is that the kid will always say how good the wine is like they are a wine snob. It could be boones farm, but they will never admit to not liking it

Norma Stark

133 posts since
Oct 4, 2007

9. Nov 19, 2007 8:41 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

Wine at 16, and only one glass with dinner. Heck for my 16th birthday my folks got me a bottle of wine with a custom happy birthday label.

MiniDriver

315 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

10. Nov 20, 2007 8:20 AM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

I can't remember a time when I wasn't served wine at Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I must have been 5 or 6.

I wouldn't serve a non-family member under 21 unless I'd had permission from the parents.

kerfwango

127 posts since
Aug 16, 2007

11. Nov 20, 2007 8:40 AM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

quote:<HR>Originally posted by filetmerlot:
the funny thing is that the kid will always say how good the wine is like they are a wine snob. It could be boones farm, but they will never admit to not liking it<HR>

It's not just kids[/URL" target="_blank">.

pigeye097

214 posts since
Nov 2, 2006

12. Nov 20, 2007 8:44 AM

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Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

quote:<HR>Originally posted by kerfwango:
It's not just kids[/URL" target="_blank">.<HR>

Dick and wine in a box, eh, kerf? Not the same box, though. Wait.
I think I just pulled a quadruple entendre, and I didn't even mean to.

tri_coach06

662 posts since
Aug 14, 2007

13. Nov 20, 2007 9:00 AM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

Every year I go to my sisters for T-day. Every year my sis and my bride have champagne with strawberries. Last year my bride offered my nephew, at the time a 15 y/o, the strawberry. The way he acted you would have thought she offered him a syringe filled with heroin.

Good thing I don't have children because I just don't see the problem with a teen having a bit of alcohol. I'm not talking about giving them a bottle of vodka and a slap on the arse. I'm talking about a half bottle of beer while watching the games.

CS

Julia Sugarbaker

46 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

14. Nov 20, 2007 5:50 PM

in response to: MnD

Re: Drinking age for friends and family on Thanksgiving?

As the oldest child, I was definitely the most repressed. The Christmas I was 21, I was not even allowed to have a glass of wine with the adults at dinner.

The following year, my younger sisters (then 17 & 18) had worn my parents down enough that Mom was fixing their cocktails.

What my parents didn't know was that I drank so much throughout high school that I didn't have much of a taste for getting drunk by the time I turned 21. Ah, parents.

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