Drinking Age

[jonnyGURU]

Like others in this thread, I remember when they changed the drinking age from 18 to 21 back in the late 80's. It was July 1987 when it was changed while I lived in Colorado and I was only 1.5 years away from being 18. What was ironic was that people that were already 18 were grandfathered in. They could still buy alcohol. For the longest time, signs in stores said "if you were born after... but before... you can't buy alcohol." After high school, I'd be where 19 and 20 year olds were legally buying and consuming alcohol, but I could not at age 18 and could not until I was 21.

 

[DVad3r]

When my dad was 10 years old my grandpa used to send him out to get beer with a giant 8 gallon barrel attached to his back. That's awesome.

 

[oiprocs]

Because I had sex with your mom. That's why.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Originally posted by: TehMac
I think we should change it to 18, but I think more parents should practice corporal punishment on their children. We're sort of growing out of the "Love Child" generation of parents where psychologists believed beating children made them sociopaths or some nonsense. Thankfully new parents are getting a bit wiser.

Your parents beat you, didn't they? Perhaps those psychologist weren't wrong?

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Originally posted by: DVad3r
When my dad was 10 years old my grandpa used to send him out to get beer with a giant 8 gallon barrel attached to his back. That's awesome.

When my dad was 10 he had to move the tractor around the field by carring it on his back.

That's awesome.