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What did you do when you turned 21?

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Kirby

Lifer
Apr 10, 2006
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was working at my co-op, bought a big bottle of chimay blue, thick ribeye, potatoes, and mushrooms. had a epic dinner, finished the chimay.
 

thescreensavers

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Aug 3, 2005
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I'm going to a stripper club with a few people I know. I'll be buying a friend a drink. I will also be getting a new license that week. (WA licenses have differences between <21 and 21+)



Hold the phone, you are turning 21?

Why the fuck are you buying anything for anyone else but you, hell your friends should be paying
 

Leros

Lifer
Jul 11, 2004
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Hold the phone, you are turning 21?

Why the fuck are you buying anything for anyone else but you, hell your friends should be paying

Heh, that reminds me of when my fiend took us all out for dinner on his birthday. It was kinda weird, but whatever.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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Way back before MADD the drinking age was 18 in my state of origin. Which meant if you were 16 and not a dick you could buy alcohol. So 21 was nothing special.
 

Krynj

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Jun 21, 2006
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I didn't really drink then. Instead, me and a bunch of my friends got dressed up real fancy and went to Denny's.
 

yh125d

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Dec 23, 2006
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Ordered various drinks at various places starting at lunch. Never got carded. Then again, I still never have except at walmart
 

yh125d

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Dec 23, 2006
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was working at my co-op, bought a big bottle of chimay blue, thick ribeye, potatoes, and mushrooms. had a epic dinner, finished the chimay.

Good man. I don't know why they bother making the small bottles
 

CrackRabbit

Lifer
Mar 30, 2001
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Got up, worked, stopped at a liquor store on the way home and picked up a bottle of Bacardi 151, drank myself to sleep.
 

moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
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could you just call it a strip club?
also, if you do actually go, it's going to be awkward as hell for you.
 

thescreensavers

Diamond Member
Aug 3, 2005
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Heh, that reminds me of when my fiend took us all out for dinner on his birthday. It was kinda weird, but whatever.

thats sad really, He was buying company instead of having good friends take him out to do something with.

or maybe he is just weird lol
 

Squisher

Lifer
Aug 17, 2000
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Drinking age was 18, I went to the same bar I had been going to for a year. Got shitfaced drunk and puked.
 

Via

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Jan 14, 2009
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I remember my brother driving from Cinncinnati to Urbana to surprise me with a few of my other high school friends (really cool), remember going to some bars, vaguely remember trying to climb onto a table at Taco Bell before somebody pulled me down from behind, not much else.....
 

mnewsham

Lifer
Oct 2, 2010
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Just came in here to say, i have never smoked, never done any kinds of illegal drugs, nor have i partaken in alcohol. I am 18 years old and plan on keeping it this way. No I dont care if you do any of those things around me, i just wont join you :p
 

HamburgerBoy

Lifer
Apr 12, 2004
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Bought a bottle of scotch, and consumed a single shot. My birthday is always either on finals week or the weekend before finals week.
 

MotionMan

Lifer
Jan 11, 2006
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I went to Lake Tahoe with my immediate family and my now-wife for a weekend of legal gambling.

When I was in college, two of my fraternity brothers were going to turn 21 on the same day. We drove a caravan of 7 vehicles from Orange County to Las Vegas the night before. We got there at about 11 p.m. and headed to the Frontier for the dollar Blackjack tables. As we walked in, we asked security to card all of us.

The Birthday Boys got to stand outside for an hour ;)

MotionMan