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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 30, 2008 21:15:19 GMT -5
Are there any others besides the wine in the sock and the discussion of drinking age in #6?
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Post by lionessblack on Apr 30, 2008 22:26:57 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, the only one I can think of is Watson and Elizabeth giving Richard and Sharon champagne on New Year's Eve in #50. And, you know, that's not as hardcore as sneaking wine into a concert.
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Post by greer on May 1, 2008 0:03:26 GMT -5
sunny and ducky getting drunk in dawn, diary three. california diaries #1 where they go to the party. dawn and jeff have champagne when jack and carol announce their engagement. i believe that mr. nicholls sounds drunk when he calls claudia in the middle of the night in dawn and the terrible truth, but i might not be remembering correctly. mallory worries that aunt bud will offer her a beer. ;D
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Post by lionessblack on May 1, 2008 0:17:13 GMT -5
Heh, I thought the California Diaries were pretty obvious. But there's also the storyline with Maggie's mother's drinking problem.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 1, 2008 0:26:53 GMT -5
Perhaps there was a reference to drinking at Sharon and Richard's wedding? I don't remember there being one, but maybe.
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 1, 2008 4:31:55 GMT -5
Are you just looking for references to kids drinking, or adults as well? Because Elizabeth and Watson have wine at their celebratory pre-engagement dinner in Kristy's Great Idea.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 1, 2008 7:59:31 GMT -5
Just trying to remember. I've never read any CA diaries, so I don't know what happens in any of them.
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Post by fluffycakes on May 1, 2008 13:02:03 GMT -5
There's a mention of brandy or whiskey or something - I don't quite remember - in Kristy and the Cat Burglar. Kristy knew exactly what it was, too, just by watching Gollem drink it. This surprised me a little. At 13 I don't know if I would've been able to tell the difference between them - maybe I was innocent and naive - so I was slightly taken aback by the fact that Kristy knew what he was drinking.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 1, 2008 14:06:10 GMT -5
It doesn't say anything about the bottle?
Brandy is traditionally served in a specific sort of glass (very large, rather narrow mouth- it looks almost like a fishbowl), so it's possible that for whatever reason Kristy knew a snifter when she saw it. Or a shot glass, if it were whiskey, but of course other liquors are served in shot glasses too.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 1, 2008 14:24:07 GMT -5
I knew about different types of alcohol and what they are served in and what kind of person drinks what when I was a kid. I didn't know brands or anything, but I did know what a brandy sniffer is and the difference between the red wine glasses and the white wine glasses and the water goblets. I can't say for sure if I would have been able to tell the difference between a whiskey and a brandy if they were both served in the same glass; but I wouldn't have confused it with, say a rum and coke or a seven & Seven. Or a martini, because that's what most adult women seem to favor.
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Post by greer on May 1, 2008 14:59:41 GMT -5
i think watson enjoys some expensive alcohol once in a while. that's probably how kristy knew.
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Post by luckymojo on May 6, 2008 22:43:15 GMT -5
In Mary Anne's book,MA said Richard fired MA's babysitter when she was little because she drunk too much beer.
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Post by liss31d on May 7, 2008 10:38:32 GMT -5
In Kristy's Big Day, at dinner, Charlie asks his mum if he can have a drink of wine... then Elizabeth says that he can only drink when he reaches the drinking age and Charlie argues that all kids his age do and he'll be starting college next year... poor Charlie, no matter what happens every year you will never turn 21, but remain 17 ;D Although to be honest I never understand why Elizabeth does not let him have a small glass. Surely her refusing to let him try it might make him more eager to rebel. In our family, we were never forbidden to drink alcohol at home, which meant that it was our own choice and we respected our parents for that.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on May 7, 2008 19:28:30 GMT -5
Yeah, my parents don't forbid me from drinking alcohol either at their house but I usually don't drink anyway. I'm not really a beer fan. Sometimes I'll drink wine or champagne on special occasions but overall, I'm not much of a drinker.
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Post by lionessblack on May 7, 2008 19:34:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I started casual/social drinking at 19 when my sister moved back home, but it was never a big deal. My parents didn't care, they trusted my judgment on these things, and that point, saying no to it, when I was the only one in the house not of drinking age, would probably have been more trouble than it was worth. Plus, they knew I was going out and drinking at clubs with my friends as well, but I never drank much because I was usually the driver (or sometimes became the driver upon pulling keys out of the hand of my friend who didn't have such understanding parents and took the freedom to drink as much as possible).
I guess out of all the things I could be doing, occasional drinking wasn't the worst of them.
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