When did you have your first beer?

[buellbrewer]

summer 1975. I was 8. Parents had neighbors over and a cooler full of miller ponys. They went upstairs and I opened one. Pretty sure I got drunk offa it. The next night the neighbors were at the clothesline(we didnt get a dryer till 80's) I kept repeating a word I had heard I believe the night before. It starts with F ends in K rhymes with duck. After my dad said 'what did you just say?" He said"get your arse up in the house Ill be up in a minute."

 

[Asbestos]

Well, technically he wasn’t my real dad. He was just one of four step-dads. Probably the nicest of them all, also. He liked Grain Belt beer and worked in a factory. So not quite as bad as the third step dad who was a Navy vet and an executive who liked Cutty Sark scotch and to beat the crap out of me…he once dragged me through the house and shoved my face in a dog bowl because I forgot to feed the dog. My real dad drank Schlitz beer and Jim Beam…or at least that’s what I’ve seen in the two pictures I have of him. He left when I was two. Mom gave him a choice between the booze or his family. He chose the booze. I met him again once when I was 12 when he took me to dinner at a Mexican restaurant where he shook my hand and said hi and then after the meal, leaned back in his chair and burped and said “good beans”. Then I didn’t see him again until I was 37 when I went to his funeral after my step mom, killed him. He was apparently 20 years sober.

The first story doesn’t seem so heartbreaking anymore, does it? 😉

Seriously, while that’s all true, I’m okay. I’ve spent my whole life trying to be grateful because I know as bad as that stuff was, there are folks out there who’ve had it so much worse. It’s not heartbreaking…I’ve got the love of a good woman and Jesus Christ.

Well said

 

[lostchild]

summer 1975. I was 8. Parents had neighbors over and a cooler full of miller ponys. They went upstairs and I opened one. Pretty sure I got drunk offa it. The next night the neighbors were at the clothesline(we didnt get a dryer till 80's) I kept repeating a word I had heard I believe the night before. It starts with F ends in K rhymes with duck. After my dad said 'what did you just say?" He said"get your arse up in the house Ill be up in a minute."

Yep, that word seems magical when you first hear it.
But, that feeling pales in comparison to when you first do it.

 

[buellbrewer]

Yep, that word seems magical when you first hear it.
But, that feeling pales in comparison to when you first do it.

totally agree!

 

[DinkyDau]

In the late 50's Mom and Dad had a party at the house. When they left, I went to the Florida room and started drinking some of the glasses that had some booze left in them...I went back to bed and shortly after started puking my brains out.

 

[buellbrewer]

In the late 50's Mom and Dad had a party at the house. When they left, I went to the Florida room and started drinking some of the glasses that had some booze left in them...I went back to bed and shortly after started puking my brains out.

did that put the kibosh on it for future beers?

 

[TheGman]

12 or 13

"Pony Miller"
warm

 

[traderben]

MARCH 12, 1953

 

[SLIM]

10 my dad would buy me and my two sisters 11 and 9 a 32 pack of miller pony's when we would go camping and put them in a cooler for us and tell us to stay out of his.

 

[UsmcVet29]

Right after work today