At a celebration function at work I toasted with an Italian colleague.
“Is that water?”
(It was the only NA option.) “Yes.”
“You know it’s considered a wish of death to toast with water?”
“That’s funny. Seems the other way around to me. Water fosters life.”
“You… um… huh.”
When I was 14, my aunt (Non-LDS) was baptised into the LDS church and married a mormon man. I think she was 22 or 23 and he the same. Their wedding was absolutely massive and I remember thinking at the time that there was a ridiculous amount of guests…maybe 450. I then later found out that about 380 of them were solely members of his family and their wedding dinner had no alcohol there. I will never ever forget how weird it was to me, at the time, that instead of red and white wine on the table, there was red and white Schloer.
The whole thing did NOT go down well with many people in my family because my aunt was a pretty ‘typical’ young woman of that age - she liked to party, she used contraception…her personal values at the time did not at all align with the values of the mormon faith.
The marriage lasted 2 years and I remember at the first family gathering after they separated, she and her sister, my sister and our 4 cousins (all women) proceeded to get wrecked on sambucca.
I understand she joined the church because she wanted to marry this guy; I’ll never understand why she wasnt good enough to marry him unless she did. That’s not an attack in the CLDS, by the way, I know it’s quite common. What I’ll also never understand is why she decided that drinking the sambucca is what she needed to feel herself again because she knows that she was living a lie. I think the best I can get to is that for so long, she was living a life based on someone else’s values - Addicted to her previous husband I guess.
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Or fizzy drink for the Brits or cool drink for the South Africans…
Didn’t we do this one before?
Did I vote in that one lol.
There was some discussion, but I don’t remember a poll. And the answer is clearly Co-Cola.
So some folks call every pop “coke”? Even gingerale, Sprite, etc?
Apparently it’s more than just some lol
Or soda… if I went to the USA and (hypothetically as I’m sober) ordered my rum & soda or vodka & soda, they might think I mean pop vs soda water? 
Interesting. I don’t get out much lol. I’m going to live in my bubble 
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I’m not sure. I only drank liquor straight when I went to bars, when I was actually still allowed in bars, so all I ever had to do was point at a bottle and throw money at the bartender.
Bartenders pour vodka and soda all the time and know that it means club soda. I bartended for many years and can honestly say that I never had anyone order a rum and soda. Rum and Coke, on the other hand…
I’d do rum/whiskey/vodka/gin, any hard liquor with club soda as I don’t drink pop but like the carbonation. I was more of a mix at home gal, however Way back in the day, I’d order a “dark rum & skinny” when I’d go to bars (rum & Diet Coke/Diet Pepsi)
What kind of Co-Cola y’all want? We had 7 Up and root beer. 
I come from the land of pop, also called soda pop for good measure, but there was enough Southern influence there for some families to use Co-Cola as the generic name
What kind of Co-Cola y’all want? We had 7 Up and root beer
Yes! At my house “y’all want a Co-Cola or something?” typically means “What kind of fizzy water would you like?”
Yeah, it’s weird. Members of my church are often very devout. There’s a culture to the members of the LDS Church. Living the standards of the church is something we live by almost like many of us cling to sobriety. We try not to drink alcohol, use drugs, get tattoos, or have sexual relations before marriage. It’s not like you’ll be cast out of the church for doing those things. People in the church can be judgemental, and cliquey. But, that’s the people, not the church. As a whole, the majority are great people, loving and kind, generous and humble. I think it’s just how the culture is that sometimes drives our members towards the need to feel superior.
Hopefully that wasn’t what your family experienced.
This is a two parter…
At what age did you realize you had a drinking (or fill in the blank) problem.
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And part two… (part one is up there ^^)
When did you do something about it?
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