Drinking age poll

[pipi_k]

41. They are different...

but each one can cause pain.

Just like someone who drinks and then inflicts terror on his family.

My father lost his license for a long time for leaving the scene of an accident he had while DWI.

But the majority of his drinking happened around the house, where we kids (and my mom) had to deal with the fallout. He broke her jaw with a beer bottle. Threatened to knock us kids through the wall if we made one move to go with our mom when she tried to leave one day. Ripped down the Christmas tree and tore the phone from the wall. Tried to strangle my mother.

One day when I came in for supper from playing outside I accidentally tripped over the case of beer he had sitting by the back door. I'll never forget him calling me a "clumsy, long-legged bitch", and then having to choke down my supper while feeling like a worthless piece of shit.

All that isn't OK either.

Perhaps my view of alcohol is skewed just a bit because of my experiences. I would just as soon see it banned altogether, but we all know how Prohibition worked out...