I turned 21
 

So get this. This is so me.

I turn 21. Goto my first bar, buy one drink, and immediatly lose my driver liscense somewhere around the place. No one ever finds it.

So now I get to go down to the most miserable place on the planet, the DMV, and wait 6-8 weeks for a new one.

Happy birthday.

When I turned 19 (legal age here) I went to the bar and started to drink. Seriously drink. My friends all poured shots into a big pitcher, and made me drink them all at once. Imagine different bar shots and shooters all mixed in together. It was not a meeting of the United Nations, let me tell you.

I started to throw up, and quickly filled the pitcher I was drinking out of. I then tried to drink my vomit, and was quickly ushered to the bathroom by a buddy who didn't want to watch that.

I passed out on the bathroom floor, my head almost in a urinal. It was not my finest hour.

At 9:30, the bouncer came in and announced "Time for you to leave..."

My buddy gave me a ride home from my birthday party 2 hours after it started, politely stopping every two blocks so that I could throw up. What a pal.

Losing your liscence? That is bad. Going to jail, or a million other things? Much worse.

Everything is relative, from the size of two diamonds to the severity of inconvenience.

Hahaha, sucks to be you..

Shouldn't have ended your night though, as everyone else should have been buying you drinks!

xim that sucks, Bigben that really, really sucks! I know that's what my buds did to me at my bachlor party except it was just a pitcher of beer and about ten shots of various booze on a very full stomach in about 1 1/2 and I was at my future brother-in-laws apartment. Other that the getting sick part was exactly the same.

They kick you out if youre under 21 as well.

Now that you passed the milestone, it's not really that exciting, is it? Just a bit more convenient to be able to buy your own alcohol.

Jim Bruer does a great routine called 'Party in your stomach' where the stomach is the bouncer and all the different drinks are guests. Tequila shows up late, sneaks 5 of his buddies in, and starts wrecking the place. Stomach the bouncer then kicks everybody out.

"Allright, everybody out! You too Ham and Eggs. No, not that way - the way you came in!"

Funny that. My favourite haunt got raided the week before my 18th birthday and after I became legal, the excitment wore off.

On my 18th birthday I tried to buy a lotto ticket from a newsstand in a mall. The old Indian woman carded me, I showed her my ID, and she told me I wasn't old enough. She continued to tell me I'm only 17 and she couldn't sell it to me for another whole year, but nice try. Later that day I stopped at a gas station and got one without even being carded. It wasn't even a winner.

I don't like drinking with underage people in general though, since they tend to have the cheapest beer and liquor there is. Even worse was the time I was at a party and they had dirt cheap wine because it was cheaper than beer or hard liquor. A few drops of it nearly made me puke, yet everyone else thought it was great. The stuff smelled like it should be under the hood of a car (antifreeze anyone?).

On a side note, consider buying a wallet with a slot you can slip your license into and flip it out like people do on TV, it'll save you some trouble.