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ngdawg · 01-18-2007, 09:11 AM

Dear Abby is the first thing I read too....
You would think in this age of enlightenment, when getting a DUI is such a fear to many, drinking wouldn't be an issue at all....so much for 'progress'.
I worked Accounts Payable for a major candy maker in the 80's and 90's. Generally, there were 2 or 3 big conventions a year, the biggest held in Las Vegas. I remember one bartab of $900 for one night.
The managers of a bank where I worked loved to party(read: drink). I'm not a prudish teetotaler, but if I'm going to be driving, I don't need to be guzzling alcohol and would just have maybe one drink and the rest of the night, go with club soda. These guys were fond of goading, teasing, etc., in efforts to get more booze into everyone. All that did was make me lose any modicum of respect I might have had for them. I'm also just immature enough to be sure to defy more and more as the goading goes on-the more pressure one puts on me to do something I didn't want to do in the first place, the more I will resist, even if I really wanted that third drink.
I think the writer in today's column was wrong; no one should give into pressure or cover up to seem 'equal'. It's wimping out and not keeping personal principles and in the business world, I don't see much use for those kind of people.

01-18-2007, 09:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	Dear Abby is the first thing I read too.... You would think in this age of enlightenment, when getting a DUI is such a fear to many, drinking wouldn't be an issue at all....so much for 'progress'. I worked Accounts Payable for a major candy maker in the 80's and 90's. Generally, there were 2 or 3 big conventions a year, the biggest held in Las Vegas. I remember one bartab of $900 for one night. The managers of a bank where I worked loved to party(read: drink). I'm not a prudish teetotaler, but if I'm going to be driving, I don't need to be guzzling alcohol and would just have maybe one drink and the rest of the night, go with club soda. These guys were fond of goading, teasing, etc., in efforts to get more booze into everyone. All that did was make me lose any modicum of respect I might have had for them. I'm also just immature enough to be sure to defy more and more as the goading goes on-the more pressure one puts on me to do something I didn't want to do in the first place, the more I will resist, even if I really wanted that third drink. I think the writer in today's column was wrong; no one should give into pressure or cover up to seem 'equal'. It's wimping out and not keeping personal principles and in the business world, I don't see much use for those kind of people. __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.