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poliphiloI used to like a glass of wine. With a meal. If I was cooking. Not any more. These days I reach for the lemonade.
We were out to dinner at a very fine restaurant the other night. Some of the party were drinking wine but I was happy with iced water. Ailz ordered a cider and shared some of the bottle with me. I didn't particularly want her to.
Non-alcoholic apple juice would have been just as nice. No- nicer.
The change has come about gradually, without incident, over- say- the last 6 months.
(I'm not going teetotal. This isn't about ideology. Well, maybe a teensy-weensy bit. I've never liked pubs and I'm a bit old-maidish around the alcohol culture. I've just been reading about Dylan Thomas. What a tiresome man! How I'd have hated him!)
Children rarely like the taste of alcohol. They have to be taught - conditioned- broken in. Between 16 and 56 I was under the impression I enjoyed the stuff. I wonder if I ever really did. Now that I'm approaching my second childhood- and no longer under pressure to impress and compete with other adults- I can say what I really think.
It tastes horrid and makes me feel poorly.
Take the nasty stuff away.
We were out to dinner at a very fine restaurant the other night. Some of the party were drinking wine but I was happy with iced water. Ailz ordered a cider and shared some of the bottle with me. I didn't particularly want her to.
Non-alcoholic apple juice would have been just as nice. No- nicer.
The change has come about gradually, without incident, over- say- the last 6 months.
(I'm not going teetotal. This isn't about ideology. Well, maybe a teensy-weensy bit. I've never liked pubs and I'm a bit old-maidish around the alcohol culture. I've just been reading about Dylan Thomas. What a tiresome man! How I'd have hated him!)
Children rarely like the taste of alcohol. They have to be taught - conditioned- broken in. Between 16 and 56 I was under the impression I enjoyed the stuff. I wonder if I ever really did. Now that I'm approaching my second childhood- and no longer under pressure to impress and compete with other adults- I can say what I really think.
It tastes horrid and makes me feel poorly.
Take the nasty stuff away.
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Date: 2008-06-21 01:55 pm (UTC)My parents had the same sort of policy. As we moved into our teens, my sister and I were allowed to drink moderate ammounts of alcohol at home- so it never became a big thing to us. I went on one or two famous drunks as a kid- and quickly decided it wasn't much fun.
Maybe you're right about the added alcohol. Over the past five years or so I've moved from drinking mainly red to mainly white to mainly nothing at all.