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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, January 10, 2005 - 9:34 pm
OK, just for the record... DH called me when I was on a high school band trip, I gave him my itinerary, he asked me to prom, he was 15... we're still together... and you dont think that scares us with our DS's gf's?!! lol...
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, January 10, 2005 - 9:35 pm
PS Cathie, I can verify Hippy's recollection of Texas' legal drinking age back then, wont give details, however...
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Monday, January 10, 2005 - 9:45 pm
LOL!
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 1:25 am
Didn't mean to challenge you, Hippy, I just thought you were a young 'un. I was caught in the gap in the 60's where you couldn't (legally)drink until you were 21 and then shortly after I turned 21, you could drink at 18, then they changed it back to 21 (in '87 I think.) Or maybe I just dreamed the whole thing... 
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 9:35 am
I think it is 21 everywhere now, isn't it? Which I think is dumb, sorta. If you are military, even if you enlist at 18, you should be allowed to consume alcohol. It doesn't make sense, you're old enough to die for you country, but not old enough to kill yourself drinking.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 11:27 am
I can't imagine having to wait until you're 21 to drink. That means you could go through almost ALL of university without being legal in a bar? How sad is that? How old do you have to be to vote in the US? In BC, the drinking age is 19, but Alberta, our neighbor, it's 18. So on my 18th bday we took a road trip to Banff, naturally. And that's a good point you make, Escapee. You'd think that if these men and women are willing to give themselves to their country, the least the country could give them is the right to have a beer at the end of the day!
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 12:26 pm
Well,I kind of agree and kind of don't. And,I know the part of me that doesn't agree is the Mom in me. When we were 18, sixteen year olds could get served in restaurants,and buying at any store was not a problem. We did all kinds of stupid,careless things. The cops didn't enforce the laws. Carloads of kids with alcohol was the norm ,and the cops just turned their backs. Course back then,here in Houston,crime was really bad. I guess they had their hands full with bigger issues. I kinda of agree about the voting and serving your country,I see the point. But, setting the age higher has lowered drunken driving deaths greatly. And,the mom in me says,Yeah,kiddo,you can wait til your 21 to drink. Not a problem with me on that one.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 12:45 pm
Oh yes, I totally agree with that. The average 18 year old isn't mature enough. I could imagine a senior in High School going to the bar at their lunch break. But they do consider 18 adult age. So, you can die for your country, be sent to federal prison, buy a home, but you can't touch a lick of alcohol for another 3 years. So, why not set the "adult" age to 21?
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 1:06 pm
I am Canadian and we never had Prom or sophmores etc. High School dances were for everyone about once a year. Only a few people would dance and the others would crowd around the stage watching the band. Grade 12 Graduation was a much bigger deal. Huge ceremony, everyone all fancied up ROTFL. I graduated in 1980 and I still remember this one really brave guy who dared to wear a WHITE tuxedo with a matching spiffy cowboy hat!! ((I'm on west coast NOT prairies)) For the popular crowd Graduation was all glory and recognition topping off their school years...for the rest of us average joes it was just a fun get together. A last chance to really do something before people moved onto "real life" as a graduate. Of course there was a giant dance booked at the local civic area and we all went. At the doors were huge meanlooking security? who prettywell searched us all over (going thru purses too) taking ANYTHING that they wanted to. It was incredibly boring inside and i dont even remember seeing a LIVE band. We stayed for around two hours and as we left we noticed the security guys were now partying with all the confiscated booze and pot (they were having a great time needless to say) Anyways, I went with a group of friends. It was very anticlimatic. I expected some serious partying and NOTHING was to be found for the average joe. SIGH!! **** I never went to the Ceremony or dance at my University Grad as I was not asked nor part of the "in" crowd there either. ***** On the alcohol subject, I often think it is how alcohol is USED whether it becomes a problem. Surely we ALL used to have access to alcohol even when kids in School. The question of Legality is a good debate though. I personally think that smoking and drinking both work by poisoning the body....I find it weird that IF the government KNOWS how bad it is (thus limiting it from children) WHY they would then allow people of such a young age to buy it at all?? Because of alcohol and cigarette related diseases our hospitals are FULL of chronically sick and dying people. Both poisons lower our immune system thus allowing cancers etc to propogate. (( Being tongue in cheek here, If the USA lowered the drinking age the 'Girls Gone WILD' video guys would be happy. Those videos are good examples of why very young girls should NOT have access to alcohol!! ))
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 1:45 pm
Loved my high school proms. My mom made my dresses and my dates always color coordinated their tuxs to the colors I wore. I still have the dresses today. We had great beach bands playing (right up my alley!) and alcohol was not a huge problem back then as it is today. However, I do remember some Sloe Gin Fizzies beforehand!
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