Two times in life you want to hear that: anytime after you turn 30, and on your 21st birthday.
College Daughter hit the big 2-1 this week. Dang, I'm old! Party animal that she is, she stayed in her dorm room and studied for a big patho exam. I know that this wasn't a lie because the results were already posted and she scored a 96%.....Woot! She is a much more studious and serious student than I ever was. No De-Evolution in this house! I know she plans to celebrate with her friends this weekend. Their idea of a good time? Dinner at some expensive Japanese restaurant and then getting strawberry margaritas at some Mexican joint. How very cultured are they!
Contrast this with my 21st: Husband (who I had just met two weeks prior) took me to a saloon in some rundown part of the big town. Nothing is too good for Cocotte! I have no idea what I drank, but back then, I was really into Heineken or Long Island iced teas, preferably in a pitcher.
So......what did you do for your coming of age birthday?
College Daughter hit the big 2-1 this week. Dang, I'm old! Party animal that she is, she stayed in her dorm room and studied for a big patho exam. I know that this wasn't a lie because the results were already posted and she scored a 96%.....Woot! She is a much more studious and serious student than I ever was. No De-Evolution in this house! I know she plans to celebrate with her friends this weekend. Their idea of a good time? Dinner at some expensive Japanese restaurant and then getting strawberry margaritas at some Mexican joint. How very cultured are they!
Contrast this with my 21st: Husband (who I had just met two weeks prior) took me to a saloon in some rundown part of the big town. Nothing is too good for Cocotte! I have no idea what I drank, but back then, I was really into Heineken or Long Island iced teas, preferably in a pitcher.
So......what did you do for your coming of age birthday?
Ahhh. . . time marches on. . .
ReplyDeleteOur oldest is 28, so Jen & I are getting ready to wrap our minds around the idea that our kids are turning 30. . . 4M turned 20 this year, so we're even running low on teenagers (altho we've still got a couple more of those in the pipeline)
I honestly don't remember how I spent me first day as a legal drinker (which, in Michigan in those days, was when I turned 18). I probably went out for a beer with some buddies, but it wasn't all drunken debauchery, or anything like that. Besides, it would've been just before final exams, so I probably wasn't gonna get too crazy. . . Voting in my first election later that year seemed like a much bigger deal. . .
My big day wasn't all that exciting. Most of my friends, and the future Wife, were all under 21. So I could hang out in my room and drink with them or leave them and go to a bar without them.
ReplyDeleteAs it turns out, it was most likely worth it. Since I don't care for loud music and cigarette smoke.
She did a beautiful job of growing into those sunglasses!
ReplyDeleteMy cousins got me plastered on tequila (which I couldn't drink for years afterwords) and flirted with the bartender who delighted them by asking for their IDs.
ReplyDeleteOMG - I am so old that I can't remember what I did on my 21st birthday. That is beyond depressing. :(
ReplyDeleteP.S. But I am quite certain that it involved lots of drinking.
When I turned 21, I reached that milestone before anyone else in my tightest of tight knit group of friends, so I ended up going out with two of my quasi-tight friends who were already 21, and they introduced me to the mystery that is was the Long Island Ice Tea. That night was the start of my need (stupidity) of drinking alcohol way too quickly (I like my drinks cold!), so I enjoyed a few too many of them. However, I'm proud to say, I've never been sick due to any sort of alcohol consumption. I also haven't had any in more than 20 years (at least not anywhere near the degree I did then), so I imagine it wouldn't take me much to get sick now!
ReplyDelete(ps - Kudos to your daughter! After spending the last two hours studying for a Social Studies test with my 8th grader, I can only hope for such a great grade!)
I lived near enough the border to a state where the legal age was a full year younger than in my own... soooo, I guess when I did have my "in-state" legal age, we did what we'd always done-
ReplyDeleteWent to the bar & had a 7-seven, probably :)
Mine was just going out to dinner with friends. But the legal age in Georgia at the time was 19 so it wasn't a big deal. For that matter, the drinking age at my school in Switzerland was 17, so I was able to drink publicly my senior year of high school.
ReplyDeleteCraig - My mother-in-law just mentioned how she wasn't real crazy about having her oldest turn 50 last year!
ReplyDeleteRuss - I sort of enjoyed the loud music at that age. Now, not so much.
TT - I know! Isn't that crazy? She just happened to buy a pair of sunglasses last year that match those in the photo. I have no idea whose she was wearing back then; I've never worn sunglasses like that.
Worried - Cousins always seem to be a whole lot more fun than siblings.
Rhonda - I would be disappointed if it didn't!
FADKOG - I don't think I know anyone who hasn't gotten sick at least once on booze. And yeah, studying social studies with middle child made me really appreciate math!
Sailor - In our state, the legal age was 18 for 3.2 beer when I was that age. Of course, that didn't stop us from buying up.
Agent - Considering I grew up in a teetotaler (sp?) household, it was always a big deal that I drank. I've tried to raise my kids the opposite way.
I can't remember- I was drunk
ReplyDeleteno wait. the drinking age in Texas at the time of my coming of age was eighteen.
ReplyDeleteI was still drunk and don't remember
happy belated birthday to her!
ReplyDeletemy 21st? i had been married for about 9 months. i don't even remember doing anything out of the ordinary.
JK - You do everything big there, right??
ReplyDeleteLime - You were a child bride!!!